Today was one of those doing-everything-wrong kind of days. I tried to use a non research-based assessment & got told not to. I didn't get a group of students to finish their math homework. I'm pretty sure I may have taught dependent clauses wrong. I got an email about how I should have spoken up earlier about what I said during collaboration. One of the students in my RtI group didn't finish his workbook page and I just let him go. I said teachers first name's in front of students... again. No one on the list showed up to intervention and I didn't even go look for them. I gave the directions wrong in English class. And I didn't even go to Math class because I was bothering other teachers all day to try to get baseline data for a student and finally just did it myself. There are several times I ask myself in a day, Why am I even here? But today, I followed it with, Am I going to get back up from this? And I decided yes. Yes, because Emily said I was her favorite teacher ever.
(I don't care if she tells every teacher that.) Yes, because I found fun math games that got Mike into ratios. Yes, because Brittany asked me if I was coming to watch her play volleyball again. Yes, because students are now occasionally calling out "Mrs. Weaver" and asking me questions. Yes, because David, who "hates" working with me, asked if I could read his journal today. Yes, because I talked to Tim and he finally wrote notes in class, for the first time. Yes, because one of my students wrote a story about someone named Hyper B. Ole who exaggerated everything, and that is just hilarious. Yes, because Lily drew me a picture that said "Mrs. Weaver" "Teacher" & "Fun." Little Emily giggled as she erased her math mistake, saying "Mrs. M always makes mistakes when she teaches math!" The same girl who used to erase a whole page because of one wrong number. Yes, because if I can't make mistakes, what does that show my students? *All student's names were changed because it's the twenty-first century, people.
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Karen
9/18/2015 09:52:32 am
Yes!
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Pops
9/18/2015 06:20:54 pm
You're just like everyone else, Dear.
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