teaching jitters

[gingerrose]

Tomorrow I start my teaching practicum in a real high school special ed classroom. For one full day a week, 7:15-2:30 (or whenever I'm done) on Wednesdays, I will be helping in a classroom. I'll write lesson plans, teach some lessons, assist the teacher, write a bunch of papers, and do all that general classroom stuff that real teachers do. Up

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[trippypeas]

Darling. First off You are amazing and will do great. Second, the important thing about special ed is that you care more than it can frustrate you. And you are going to be great. The whole point of practicum and is to put in practice what you've been studying. some hands on knowledge.

You won't really know what to do for those students until you get in there and meet them and interact.

[gingerrose]

Awww thank you my dear! It turns out school is closed today, but I think that's good because now I have time to reflect on how I was feeling last night and see how to manage it better so I'm not feeling that way next week. Sometimes it's good to freak out because it shows me that there's a problem I need to deal with, so I guess in a way I'm grateful that I have more time to do that. So today, besides drinking hot cocoa and watching old dance shows and reading tons of books and watching the snow (we're getting 3-7 inches today and another 2-4 tonight), I'm also going to do lots of thinking and write long journal entries about teaching and thoughts about my practicum. It's good to know that, in fact, I'm freaking out because I care, so that's just another way that anxiety, while unpleasant, is useful.

*hugs hugs hugs!*

*squeeze*

[trippypeas]

Have a lovely lovely warm day off.

[saena17]

For what it's worth, here's my limited range of advice for how to deal with these couple kids, based on what I learned from my student teaching/this past semester of work