Teaching Hope (Disillusionment)

In entry 78, I had a thought back to when I was doing my student teaching. I didn’t run out of the room crying or anything like that but my mentor teacher and I did have a class that was unexpectedly thrust upon us without any sort of consideration as to how we felt about it. In the end, the class was my favorite to teach of them all. But just the thought that at any point a class could be thrown my way without either the proper support or be even in my content area. I’ll never forget what the principle said to me before I left the school I student taught at. He said, make sure you apply for a health teacher, phys. ed teacher, and a science teacher. As if all of it was the same. On at least one level, I could relate with this teacher in the entry.

Entry 94 was interesting because it was about a teacher outside of school. I remember when I was student teaching and how I would sometimes think about the students in my class and how a conversation I had outside of student teaching related to one of my students. When that happened, I would have to tell whoever I was talking to about it because it was so relevant to me. The part where she says he won’t really understand what she means is so true. I’m fortunate enough to have a girlfriend that completely loves that I’m going to be a teacher and supports me all the way. The life of a teacher is a rewarding and underpaid endeavor and sometimes I wonder how I ended up enjoying it so much.