the student inside me

Oh my gosh!! I forgot to write my student teaching response!

I guess I can start by saying that I have enjoyed all of these crazy sow days we’ve had. I feel bad because as a future teacher I shouldn’t feel happy when we get to miss school for four consecutive days, but what the heck. I love not having school and spending so much time with my mom and with my brothers. I think the thing that I do worry about is that I am writing my KPTP on the current unit that I am teaching and I have no idea if I’ll get to finish it now. We would have been done with the unit this Wednesday, and I’m pretty sure my CT wants me to move on because we’re already a week behind and now with the snow days we’ll be even more behind. So, that’s the only thing I feel a little anxious about.

            My plan: I think this plan is going to work for two reasons a.) I can show that I am very flexible with my schedule and b.) I still find a way to compensate for the missed days. I plan to have the kids do a research project about an endangered species for our animal unit. I will have them research animal adaptation and homeostasis as it relates to their endangered species. This will allow me to cover the two in about two days and this can be my final assessment.

            In my KPTP I plan on telling the KPTP scorers that we had snow days and unfortunately, I have to keep to the schedule I had. This will not only make me look wise and professional, but also awesome hahah.

            I hope today is the last snow day we have, but I would not be opposed to more snow days. This is student teaching, after all and the student inside me says, “Heck, let it snow!”