Today was Ms. Crawford's day at Sunset Acres. I am truley sad that our 'Workship' has ended however I have no doubt that our friendship will continue. Our classroom motto was to Ride or Die because we were always there to back each other up. Although this chapter of my S. A. career has ended a new one begins.
Today was the last day of my class to be certified to host a student teacher. I have three questions and one statement:
Question 1: Why did I take, and pay for, this class when I found out that there are teachers who have student teachers and they have NEVER had a class to certify them? Question 2: Will I ever have a student teacher while at Sunset Acres? Question 3: In the state of Texas, where I am originally certified, we have to teach for a set amount of years as well as receive above average evaluations... Why is it in the state of Louisiana, do you only have to take a class... (To find the answer I'm sure all you would have to do is compare state scores and school ranks between the two states..... Not trying to be biases but I think TEXAS would win hands down.) But back to my question, who would you rather student teach under, a vetern teacher or a teacher who just took a class? Statement: The class that I took had a wonderful teacher, he is really decorated and I think he will graduate in December with his Doctorate from a highly accredidated school. He really emphasised how important it is to teach teachers preparing to enter the profession how important they are.... However, although I have not taught that long, I think that I need to teach my student teacher how to adapt and survive in this world this EVER So my child has been suffering from one horrible ear infection after another and I took her to the doctor for the fifth time in a three week time frame. I took her favorite book to entertain her so I could work on my presentation that is due for my class tonight. Well in my haste to leave I put both books on top of my car as I strapped her in and forgot about them. Needless to say, I drove without taking the books off the hood. As soon as I realized what I did I drove back only to find that both books were gone... Now I can understand why at a peditricians office, if you find a child's book that is also accompanied by music but why in the world would you take my BORING school book? It has no pictures and is filled with boring case studies. And besides that, I needed it complete my papers for my presentaions tonight... What has happened to mankind?
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