I didn’t
know how this day was going to go but I ended up loving it. I never have seen myself teaching older
grades like seventh grade because I always thought that my height would have me
lose control of the students. I learned
quickly though that these students do listen to me if I ask them too and I did
have control on all of my lessons. I
also quickly related to them when they would come up and talk to me I would ask
them things and they were just so happy that someone in college was willing to
listen to them. I made lots of
connections with students by doing this, which made teaching easier and my time
easier.
I think
what I also realized that even though I don’t like something I could easily
compose myself, and make people think that I like it. What I mean is that today a snake ran into my
boot and I did not bat an eye. I was
secretly freaking out inside but I didn’t want the seventh grade girls to be
scared of going into the water, and I wanted to show them that if you don’t do
anything to them the snakes won’t do anything to you. I think I did a pretty good job because the
girls stopped freaking out about snakes and were starting to focus more on
finding snails and tadpoles.
This ended
up being a great day and I am actually excited about all of the middle school
and freshman we will be having this week.
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