The Last Day....

As I am coming upon my last day in my cooperating teacher's classroom it has got me thinking about all I have really accomplished in this semester....

I have learned so much about teaching, about who I want to be as a teacher, and really I have learned a lot more about myself. It's really a nice feeling, to know that so far by persuing your goals you are becoming more of who you dreamed you could be and everyday here at school i'm just getting one step closer. To me that is amazing.

I have realized that maybe teaching isn't what I want to do when I leave school, but yet I love every minute I spend in the classroom, I've realized that teaching doesn't really come as natural to me as I thought, but yet I want more than anything to do just that. Through my experiences this semester it seems I have grown up....but this also seems somewhat ironic because as I've been supposedly "growing up" I've been spending a ton of my time in a 3rd grade classroom. Who knows, maybe going back to elementary school allowed me to realize a lot about myself.

Anyway, I believe my first semester in the elementary education program, no matter how difficult it has been at times, has been an eye opening and essential learning experience. I can only hope that in the next 2 semesters I learn as much as I did in the past 4 months. Learning to teach is truly an amazing learning experience.