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| What's the opposite of a role model? |
| 12.17.03 (4:47 pm) [edit] |
[i]I'm looking for a place, I'm searching for a face...
Is anybody here I know?
Cause nothing's going right and everything's a mess,
and no one likes to be alone...
[b]Avril Lavigne ~ I'm With You[/b][/i]
Well, I survived it. It's been a long time since my last post, a time I spent not sleeping, researching, and fretting over not passing my practicum.
Remember that teacher from my last post, the one who I said was so sketchy? Well, halfway through my practicum she told me that she didn't see how, based on my performance, she could pass me. This came as something of a shock to me, since I had spent the first half of the practicum trying to figure out how a teacher as lousy as she was had managed to survive 20 years in the Canadian education system. Now here she was telling me [i][b]I[/b][/i] was a lousy teacher!
It all went downhill from there. I started spending all my free time lesson planning, not pausing to do anything else. I stopped eating, I got less than four hours of sleep a night. Her constant interruptions during my teaching time destroyed my confidence in front of the class. If the kids hadn't been so great I probably wouldn't have survived it. I also had tonnes of support from the other English faculty members, my fellow student teachers, and my afternoon associate. Still the woman raged on, nearly pushing me to a psychotic breakdown. I eventually had to have a Professor from the University come in and watch me teach. Afterwords the Professor gave me a thumbs up and told me that she didn't see any reason why I shouldn't pass second practicum.
So in the end I stopped caring, and that helped a lot. I was able to put away most of the nervous tension and focus on getting through the days. On that last Friday I left the school feeling fantastic, relieved that it was all over and that, through a combination of support and luck, I had managed to pass. Then the days spent not sleeping and not eating caught up with me and I got sick.
So that is where things stand now. I'm back home, tired and irritable, but glad that the whole terrible experience is over. I hope that it has strengthened my resolve to do even better in the future. At the very least it taught me exactly what kind of teacher I [i][b]don't[/b][/i] want to be, and that is a very important thing to know.
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posted by: aliciarobin (reply)
post date: 12.21.03 (10:54 am)
You have a learn a good lesson from your experience.Everything happen is something to be from it.And you did that in a good way. When you know what kind of teacher you want to be.Congratulatuion.
posted by: macburn (reply)
post date: 12.30.03 (12:08 pm)
Thanks. I guess it is true what they say, that anything that doesn't kill you only makes you a stronger person :)
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