Week 6

Today was the big day! In my field experience I completed the reading assessment! It wasn't nearly as bad or hard as I thought! Actually I was with another teacher and he helped me through it! It was a great learning experience. Also in my field experience this week I got the chance to grade some papers and I realized how soft hearted I am. A student answered one of the questions with " I don't know and I am sorry." I wanted to cry right there on the spot. It was so sad, but the one of the teachers made it a little better. She gave me wonderful advice. She told me that students put things like that all the time, but you have to be strong and be hard. She said " Just remember your not here to be their friend, they have plenty of friends." I know that when I become a teacher I am going to have such a strong connection with all my students and I am going to have constantly remember her advice. This will be one of the hardest aspects of teaching, but we are there to make them better and sometimes that means being mean and hard!

In class we discussed and did activities around our topics for our research paper. I really had a hard time picking my topic. I kept running into several problems with everything I choose. At first I was going to do Kendra Wilkinson because I just finished her book and she lived quite an interesting life. With her I just couldn't think of any questions for the activity because I had just got done reading her book. Then I was going to research about addiction, but that just seemed too boring for this paper. I love Carrie Underwood so I thought she would be a good topic, but then I got to thinking that researching her life would be hard. I have a feeling their won't be much about her on the internet or in books. So these our my 3 ideas, I better make up my mind soon. In class I was leaning more towards Carrie, but now its Kendra! Ah!! I hope I make the the right decision!!