Post-Student Teaching/Second Semester Senioritis

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting at all. It was the busiest and hardest semester I have ever had, but it was also the best. Things were rocky all the way through, and I figured that I'd write down sort of what I could call a "final reflection."

I loved my class. I call it my class because they really were, for a month, my students. The only problem I felt was that the classroom I was in wasn't really mine, and I couldn't do the things that I wanted to do.

The technical stuff that I was worried about before was, in fact, challenging, but at the same time, after I had gotten through the biggest part of it, it was a breeze as long as I remembered everything I needed to do that day and plan for it.

I received an A for my student teaching and I'm on the Dean's List for the seventh time.

Now senioritis is setting in and I don't feel like doing anything. It seems like all I think about is, "when can I do this?" or "What time is practice?" or "When can I sing next?" I'm not really thinking about anything in particular to finding a job or getting any work done.

Nothing really, is going on right now. Just plugging away at school.

EDIT: Okay, I was looking at my post before last semester started, and forgot that I had set some goals. Let's see if I achieved them, shall we?

First goal: Create an iMovie or whatever's on a PC, that shows my work with the students.

Okay, so I couldn't do an iMovie. But that wasn't my fault, and now that I know more, I could see that would've been work that I didn't need to do.

Second goal: Mrs. Malnati has a website for her classroom, and she hasn't done a lot with it, so I want to take it over and put updates and (with parent permission) put photos of the students showing off their work.

I didn't take over the website because of the new district policy, but Mrs. Malnati and I both worked on it together, so I consider that goal accomplished as it could be.

Third goal: I want to use the different stuff I have for bulletin board making and really create good-looking boards.

My bulletin boards were really creative and I loved doing them!

Fourth goal: One of my assignments for student teaching is to do reflections every night. I also want to put my reflections on another blog for preservice teachers to see what student teaching is like. Maybe Dr. Rey (hopefully) will count those future blog entries as actual reflections...or part of them anyway.

Couldn't do the blog. It didn't work out because it was too personal. But I consider this goal half accomplished because I can still give my advice to all the preservice teachers at SJC.