Reflections Reflections Reflections......

Gosh these first few weeks of starting my education courses have been intense. Let me just say that being a teacher is no easy task. All of the new education majors attended a meeting about all of our deadlines, what the next few years will look like, what all we need to know, scores we have to take and so on. My goodness was I stressed out about everything. I felt like pulling out my hair! As teachers there is so much pressure about how we appear to be and the standards we are put up to not only as teachers, but also as citizens. Overwhelmed has a whole new meaning to me.

As I start my first education course I also started my course on teaching math to elementary school students. I finally understood the content, but did anyone know how hard it is to explain something? There are wrong terms that may not mess them up at the moment, but later on the students will be confused and have to re-learn everything if I have taught it wrong. I know in the end this will be worth it. All of my late night studying and throwing myself into my work will lead to success. But I am so ready to get started. Even after all of the overwhelming information I am still trying to process a week later, I still can not wait to be a teacher.

P.S. (Did you know there can be a submit button you have to keep pressing on different pages until the assignment actually goes through? Lesson learned)