Week 2 at Cleveland Road Elementary was even more amazing than the first week. I'm learning more and more about the children in my classroom and they seem to be learning more about me. I'm enjoying learning more about the actual life of a teacher. I'm able to make copies and do other simple task such as grade papers.
My students are amazing. They are able to make me laugh and they genuinely love life. A child's laughter is a wonderful thing and it makes me happy to be one of the people who get's to make them laugh. The students are begining to understand my role in the classroom as an athoritative figure and they simply respect and respond to my requests. The students love to play freeze dance and this is a great tool to use when the students have been sitting for a little while.
Lastly, my MT is awesome. She does the many small details that seperates the great teachers from simply being a good teacher. She told me that as a teacher you have to pick your battles. The thing that amazed me was watching as she carefully and specifically picked her battles. She allowed the her students to understand that they are human beings as well and that they will be respected in the classroom by simply letting children be children, but not letting them "take over the classroom". My teacher has been teaching for 12 years and I hope to one day be as good with my students as she is now.
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