I have been student teaching for ten weeks now. Today is my last real day of teaching, and when I got to my desk this morning I found this note from one of my students:
“I’ll miss you.
You are great.
You’ll be a great teacher.
Sincerely,
Lauren”
Wow. That note made me feel…so good and sad all at once. It’s amazing how it feels to teach a class. Leaving these students is making me feel very odd – when I first met them, they scared me to death. Now I feel like I want to make sure they will be ok in their lives…I mean, they live in NORTHBROOK, I’m sure they’ll be fine:). But I’m sure I will find myself thinking of them the day before my summers start, wondering if they are having a nice time in high school…wondering if their lives turned out as they planned. I think about my teachers of the past and wonder how they do the summer break-away…most probably do so with relief. But when you’re in a room with the same group day after day learning lessons together and having good and bad days together…it shapes things more than I ever realized it could.
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