I've heard from just about every teacher that every student teacher has a break down and so far I was golden in the fact that I thought I was strong enough to live through it. Well, today was my first time that I broke down. Luckily, I did not cry in front of the students, but after my day of teaching I had just been so frustrated with my second block class that I just broke down. These kids don't care-they don't care for school anymore, they don't care for consequences, they don't care to give respect, they don't care to be responsible. They've stopped working for the year and its rather unfortunate for me to have to student teach these students during this time. I was told that I strive too hard to reach ALL my students and that I should leave some behind and just work for those that actually care to learn! WHAT?! How am I, as an educator, supposed to leave my students behind? What happened to No Child Left Behind? Apparently, leaving children behind is the way to go? I don't entirely agree with that. I understand they are telling me this because I beat myself up too much when I have some students that just don't care and take up space in the class not wanting to learn, but if they can take anything away from what I teach them, I'll be happy. It frustrates me because I know all my students have such great potential if they only applied themselves and I hate to see them fall off the boat because once they fall off those students generally stay off the boat because everyone has given up on them and no one is going to motivate them to get on track-or in the boat. This whole situation makes me crazy.
Well, on a brighter note I went on a field with some of the sixth graders on Monday to Des Moines University for a class experience. We had a chance to see real hearts, lungs, brains, and then Harvey-a mechanical learning body. It was pretty cool. Des Moines University is gorgeous. You don't hear too much about that school but the resources they have for the sciences is AMAZING!! (I still love Drake, no worries.).
Today was the Relays Parade. It started with Cammeo calling me, me dragging Greg along and then finding Linda and Corie there while waiting in line to get caricatures. We got photo booth pictures, free tumblers, stress balls, lanyards, and of course our caricatures. Pretty amazing. Full two and half hours worth of my time with my homies.
I have 1.5 weeks left of full time teaching and then one week left of observing/external observations and then I'm done!! Tomorrow is my mock interview with the principal at my school, so I need to go prep for that. Work is calling my name! I must run.
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