it hit me

Today I realized that Dordt College believes that there is nothing more I need to learn from them in order to be a good teacher. The fact that I'm actually going to be a licensed teacher in less than five months overwhelms me, guys! My Christmas Break has been spent unpacking and repacking for that day in the near future when, hopefully with contract in hand, I venture out to who-knows-where to take over a classroom with dozens of smirking little high schoolers who are all ready to torment me and make my life miserable.

Okay, so other than have nightmares about being a teacher, my break has been great so far. I'm staying with my cousin Sarah, whose husband is currently serving an eighteen month deployment in Iraq, and we've been having a great time. She's helping me work out regularly, and I'm teaching her how to cook.

Here's a question for those of you student teaching next semester--any suggestions on books that I should take with me? I'm trying to think of what things I'll need up in Indiana other than the basics, and I could use some advice. Hope your Christmases are all going well.

I'm in . . .

Hey guys! Now I'm part of the blog too! Yippie-skippie! Thanks for putting this together, Liz. I'm looking forward to receiving lots of stories and advice from those of you who will be student teaching next semester. Have a great break!

Let's get it started...

Okay, well, now that we have our blog, the key thing to making it work best for us is if we actually blog on here. I would encourage you to try to blog at least once a week, maybe more--and it doesn't have to be long. But if we want this to be a forum where we discuss what's happening in our student teaching experiences and want to allow people other than those of us student-teaching to participate in it, we have to provide some fodder for discussion. So. Ready, set, blog!