it's just another day...

For the most part today was pretty uneventful.... Mostly what I learned was the discombobulated side of teaching... Like with most jobs sometimes things don't go the way you plan or things get thrown off course... We as a team weren't totally ready to start our expedition today but we made it work... We quickly planned in the morning and when the time came to start our learning/ the kids learning... we were right on task. In our class we will be starting from... well is there a negative ground zero? What the kids taught me today was that Martin Luther King came to the new world to be free, as did Lance Armstrong.... What they learned today was the Queen Isabella funded Christopher Columbus who came today and that the Roanoke Island colony disappeared...So we learned a lot... It was nice to at least know we had started the learning process since they were pretty... well, in a nice way clueless about the "new world" and who came there and for what reason... I can still remember in 6th grade when we learned about the age of Exploration and I did a real life presentation on Ferdinand Magellan... While I thought my presentation was awesome I'm pretty sure it was just plain old weird... Luckily I had this amazing teacher who showed me it was ok to be weird as long as your facts were right.... If only life could be like that. On the note of that teacher after last week's struggles I turned to a group of old teachers who I looked up to and still keep in touch with... It was amazing to me that they all offered me sound advice on how to reach out to my students and how to at the end of the day still supported me despite the number of years since they taught me. Shows you just how important teachers are... If only the rest of society could get on board, give teachers the raise they deserve and stop complaining that we get summers off... HELLO IT'S BECAUSE WE NEED TO REGROUP.... hey big CEO try having your name shouted at you ALL day and then tell me you don't need 8 weeks off.... anyways... teachers are awesome... everyone should thank the next teacher they see.... or take a note from Europe and make teaching one of the most valued jobs a person can have.... until next time...

the life student