my first real "teacher" moment

What a whirlwind these past four weeks have been!  Student teaching has been an incredibly challenging and gratifying experience already and I have only been doing it for 19 days (technically) cheesy cheesy but all too true.  To be honest, at first I felt hesitant, because I didn't want to step over the imaginary line I created of how involved I could be.  Oh that imaginary line, I found that I put that darn thing in places I really shouldn't.

 I will get better, it'll just take some time, and a whole lot of courage.

Sometimes I really psych myself out when it come to taking risks. . . if you've known me long enough you have seen this lovely trait of mine rear its dreadful head.  "If you're going to doubt something, doubt your limits".  How inspirational!   Maybe I should start taking this approach in my life, starting now. Okay. . . we'll see how this goes.

Now onto my original thought for this blog, my first real teaching moment.  It happened during the fourth week of school.  Jane (my master teacher) had to go to a webinar for the first 40 minutes of school so I was in there with the guest teacher a.k.a. substitute, but I was the one teaching.  We went through the beginning routine with the pledge and announcements and we started into the work.  No prompting from Jane, no anything; it was just me and the kids, teaching and learning.  It was exhilarating and awfully exciting, but I was rather nervous!  She trusted me to teach these kids something. . yikes.  But I did pretty great if I do say so myself (and I do).   So yes, my first real teacher moment was a smashing success and I look forward to many more great moments, and even some learning moments and everything else in between.