Tomorrow begins my first day at the middle school. While I am excited and nervous about starting this new assignment, I can’t help but think about the students and school I left behind. I got to go to the middle school the other day to talk to the teacher about the next eight weeks. I don’t know what to expect from this next placement. I am so afraid of the unknown and how the students will take to this new co-created curriculum. I am afraid that I won’t implement it as well as I can or that it won’t go as well as I want it to. I do only get 7 weeks with them though because we are going to the AAHPERD conference in two weeks.
On top of all of that, there will be an observer almost every day. I know that after time I will get used to it, but for now, I am nervous. We have to go, only get to observe one day, and then immediately get into teaching. There is no room for error because it’s the last eight weeks before school is let out. We have no room for mix ups or being behind. We don’t even get a full week to observe the students, see how the teachers teach, learn the protocols, and prepare ourselves for the assignment. I don’t know exactly how to describe how I feel about it. Guess we’ll have to wait and see how it all goes.
One nice thing is that I don’t have to be up until 7:15 now. That was the time I had to be at my last placement. It will be nice to get that extra hour to sleep in, but then again, I don’t get out until 3:45 whereas before I got out at 3:00. I guess it will be a nice trade off. Maybe this time I will get to ride my bike more because it being warmer as the day gets on. Before, it would still be dark out and freezing in the morning that it deterred me from riding. Both schools are close by so it will be almost the same distance. The middle school is just a little further up the street.
I hope that this placement will develop along just like the last one. Only time will tell. Wish me luck!
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