This week a TanglewoodMiddle School has had its ups and downs. I will start with the good. I love teaching, every day coming in to teach is exciting and fun. I’m not crazy about the planning, but getting up in front of a class is such a great feeling. The 8Thgrade is my favorite group of kids. They just have such potential and they don’t see it. Now the bad! The students here have such bad family lives. It breaks my heart to hear some of the stories they tell us. Miss. Canty and Mrs. Jenkins are more like moms to some of these students then teachers. This week alone they have washed clothes, boughtlunch, taken people to shower. It amazes me what these ladies do above and beyond their job descriptions. They are constantly teaching me about what it really means to teach. Now for thee stress. I have never worked so hard in all of my life. Every night I come home witha ton of planning to do. Even the weekend is filled with lesson plan writing and planning for the next week. I feel like I have singed my life over to student teaching. Will the weekend planning ever stop? Overall, it has been a great week!!
