I have been almost assigned a placement for student teaching!
Oh boy.
It's going to be a lot of work. After approximately 3 e-mails that I have gotten from my potential cooperating teacher, I am overwhelmed..
It's teaching at Southwest High School in Minneapolis. I would be teaching 3 sections of AP Calculus and 2 sections of geometry. Those five classes combined apparently include almost 200 students! AH! (Deep breath...)
ohhhh man. I am also way excited about this. But, like I said, also overwhelmed. I think it will be an awesome opportunity. The cooperating teacher seems to have a lot of good ideas and wants to incorporate a lot of cool mathy technology stuff into the classroom. That's awesome because I want to do that too. Except I don't know how any of it works. So-hopefully it will be a good chance to learn. I will probably have to do some exploring on my own before I start trying to teach it to the students, however. I think it will be a lot of fun. It's in a more urban setting, so probably also a lot different than what I am used to in a school. That makes me a little bit nervous, too.
So, woo! Ufta! I'm excited. And scared. But it's cool to feel like I have a semi-tangible direction in my mind of what is going to happen next semester. It's not a done deal yet, but close (I hope!). I'm super overwhelmed (have I mentioned that yet?)..I feel like throughout the past four years I have gotten pretty good at falling flat on my face the first time I try something. I hope that doesn't happen here. I really hope that doesn't happen. I want to learn how to teach, and, I'm sure it's not going to be perfect, but I feel like this could be a really sweet opportunity and challenge for me to experience something new. Hopefully it will work out. I have some peace about it, although it's only been like 4 days since all of this started. I trust Jesus to be faithful in this, just like He is in everything else.
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