There are only 1.5 days of school left for my kids this year. Teacher have 3 full days left. Summer 2015 is right around the corner. I cannot believe this is happening. First and foremost I want to say how happy I am. Not that I am about to have two summers of no work, but because I have made it through, by no means of my own, my first year of teaching. There are so many emotions going through me right now.
It has been 290 days since the first day of school this year. So many things in my life have change. My confidence in teaching. My relationships with my students. My social life. My reading list. My learning style. The choices I make in my classes. All of these things and more have changed. This year I have learned so much about myself through change. I have grown in ways that I did not imagine. But most importantly, I have grown as a teacher. My kids have grown and my kids have tremendously changed.
In this next day and a half with my kids I plan on just enjoying it. I have grown to love them so much. I never understood what teachers meant when they said they have their students as children. But now in ways I do. I see them as my family. I spend most of my time with them. They are the center of my world. They are the thing that keeps me going.
Just as teacher after teacher have always said, "Just as I teach my students, my students have taught me so much more." So many students come to mind when I think of the students who have impacted my life in ways I did not expect.
With year one coming to a close, it has caused me to reflect in so many ways. What can I do to better myself as a teacher? What did I do correct this year? What did I do wrong this year? Are there things that I could have changed? Did I change the life of any of my children? Did I impact one student and help them make a better life for themself? What will next year be like? What more can I learn about pedagogy?
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