This week has been a great one. I have slowly began to do less and less teaching in the classroom. I must admit that I miss it already. The students are all amazing in their own ways and I will miss them all individually for different reasons. This is a bitter-sweet part of being a teacher. Each year we have numerous students that we become close to and grow to love throughout the course of the year. It seems as though the time flies by and before we know it, they are moving on and we are only left with memories and the satisfaction that we had an unimaginable impact on their lives.
We received a new student at the end of last week in my absence. This week has been a journey in realizing how the students react around the student. This student in particular has a big personality and completely skipped pass the quiet, shy stage. This has caused an interrupting of the balance in the classroom. The classroom is like a community. Whether this is a civilized community of people or a community of animals in the wild, that is up for us as their teachers to decide.
Some may find it weird that I refer to the class as a community of animals in the wild, but are we not all mamals/animals. When you look at any classroom, you will see that they all have to figure how to coexist. This balance can be thrown off when a new student enters the classroom. Once the student is accepted by all of the studnets and not just some or most, the classroom has obtained it's new balance and the students will all grown and learn as a new community of young people. This is a lot to take in at the end of my time student teaching, but with two days left, it feels great to be almost done.
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