Okay here is my blog tonight. I have had an emotional day as a variety of events unfolded before me. First, this morning I was told that there had been a shooting related death of a mother of two children who attend school in the San Tan area. Of course not knowing these children personally didn’t matter to my heart! One of the children is in my son’s class and was not present at school today, so my son has not spoken to me about this. I feel so many emotions about this incident; it is so close to home. I am angry, sad, mortified and have anxiety. The anxiety stems from what on Earth I’m going to tell my son when he asks me. Next, I spoke with my friend who shared some troubling news, and then I had to teach of course which was wonderful!!! I felt happy when I saw pictures of my students paying attention to my instruction, furthermore I felt happy when I asked my principal for feedback on a walk through and it was positive. See what I mean? Emotions all over the board!
Now, as for the try it assignments, I must admit that I had a good time with the assignments. It is often fun to play around with technology. I must also admit that I do not have this available to me, nor do I think that I would have the additional time required to play around to make it perfect for my students. I feel that I give a lot to my students with a variety of media and tools and that as busy as I am to try to utilize or acquire the technology to utilize these tools would not be something that I can do as it is extremely time consuming.
Im so sorry to hear about that shooting, I work at Fulton which is pretty close to San Tan Elementary and sadly we did not hear of this tragedy. I wish you the best in delivery of this news to your son. My daughter, 21, came into my classroom today and participated in a "following a written set of directions" lesson that included a parent who works at Chipotle come in and have the kids make their own guacamole with small containers of their own ingredients fresh from Chipotle. She gave a lesson about eating healthy, organic and how pesticides affect our bodies. It was fantastic. Back to my daughter, she was helping out in the classroom while my kids were having a brain break and reflected on my mood when I was around my kids and said, "Wow, this isnt the teacher I see at home working until 11:00 every night" I responded that this was the fun part, being with my little people and teaching them and their passion for learning. It really made me realize that all the bad paperwork, planning, meetings, committees, part does not compare to the feeling of small children who listen to your every word and when you are reading aloud with voice and suspense, they hang on your emotions and listen with such fervor. That is the good part about teaching. Your post make me connect with the "its wonderful to teach" memory of the day.
ReplyDeleteWow what a rough day! I think I heard about that shooting, that is so sad. I know what you mean about having so many emotions and having to teach at the same time. It's like we're actors. I've had days where I'm crying coming into school due to some personal issue, and then I have to act all cheerful and chipper around other teachers and students. It can be tough!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about what you said about the try it assignments. I also enjoyed doing them. I wonder though how much extra time I have to learn more about the programs and successfully implement them in my classroom. Our school keeps asking more of teachers so we have little time for anything now it seems! I hope this week goes better for you.
Sorry to hear about the tragedy! It can be so difficult to explain these things to our children,and I always feel it is important to be direct and tell the child whatever he can understand and try to reassure him that he is safe. Living in Tucson we sometimes never know what types of crime will happen next. I do not try to frighten my daughter but she is 15 now and I try to have her remain alert and get herself to safety if some shooting or something else happens. Last year one of her clasmates was abducted from the street while walking home from school. Its sad we live in this type of world now.
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