Half way there.

A new fresh start...

Student teaching has been a learning experience. It has had its ups and downs. But hey, you have to have a challenge and push through in order to learn and to better yourself.  My teacher taught me a lot. I have had my struggles through this placement as well. My kids were great. Again I struggled a lot with classroom management, but my kids overall were wonderful and I am going to miss them so much. It still has not quite set in that I am not going back to the same school on Monday. But even though I am going to miss my students a lot. It gave me time to reflect on myself as a teacher and to really take everything I learned from this placement and take it with me to this next placement. It is time for a new fresh start. And to take everything I learned and to press on and practice everything I learned and become a better teacher. Again it is time to practice and work extremely hard. As always. Like we should be doing with everything. I had a great last day on Friday. The teacher worked with the students to make me a cute book. Each student made me a page with their picture on it and telling me something that they learned from me. They gave it to me at snack time and brought in munckins. It was so cute. I also had a really great talk with my teacher.

Also this week in school I was feeling really down and really upset about myself and my teaching. I was just really discouraged. And then as I was going about the morning this verse came to me... 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."

I am sad to be leaving this school, but I am also very excited for my next placement. I am looking forward to what is to come. I know it is going to be a challenge but I am definitely looking forward to it. God is good. And I know that he is definitely going to bring me through this.