Well Hello!
Ok, so I am in my toughest education classes right now which I have mentioned, but luckily my placement started today. If you have no idea what that means, which you would not unless you were in a education class, it means you are placed in a local classroom with a teacher for observation purposes. I am working with a great teacher, Amy Sherrer in one of the local middle schools. I was quite nervous because I would be working with her 6 hours a week, meeting over two days, and my last placement was aweful. The teacher did not really let me get involved and I basically sat in the back of the class and took notes. It was honestly pretty uneventful and such. This teacher was so great, she introduced me to all of her classes, she got me involved today, and even had me teach the class a little!!! It was so great and I already feel I am getting to know her and the rest of the class quite well! IT is going to be a great semester with the students!!!
The greatest thing was that she was so talkative to me and made sure that I knew everything that was going on. She even already mentioned she would love for me to sub for her and even allow me to teach lessons for her, and she would watch me and then give me feedback! This is a huge deal because I need some classroom experience with getting comfortable because it will be no time at all before I am student teaching, and she is going to give me the best experience with this!
The students also seem so great, but the worst thing about being in this class was that I am now, officially, Mr. Pastina. I never really thought of it before hand, but she introduced me as Mr. Pastina and that is what the students are already calling me! It is weird to think because of course my first reaction to that name is, "no, no, no...that is my father!". But no, that is me now! I am no longer a teenager and am a junior in college. More specifically, I am about 6-7 years older than these middle schoolers! That means I am a good deal older than them and they truly do look up to me and treat me as a teacher. She said that I was from Saint Mike's so the students know that I am not really that old, but I am a good deal older to them. The only issue is that I do look young!
I finally made a haircut and cut the 5 inches of my head! This unfortunately made me look much younger once I shaved and yet again, one of the girls in the class asked how old I was! Now, come one! I do not look that young! I told them that I was 20 years old and they looked quite shocked, like "Wow! he is really that old?" Well, I am proud of no longer being a teenager! I am just so thrilled to get to know the students and I feel so great to already look like a teacher! I am so excited about this and Amy was just such a great teacher. She was incorporated so many teaching strategies and I am honored to be working with her. Most of all...I LOVE BEING ABLE TO TEACH ALREADYYY!!!!!!
Joshua
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