On 10/01/09, Phill wrote:
> Currently, I am a special education student teacher in a 6th
> grade resource room. There are some days when I feel like
> I'm doing a good job with classroom management and
> everything else that's going on (i.e., keeping up with the
> academic work that I need to help my students with), and
> there are other days where I don't feel nearly as confident.
>
> For a student teacher, is it normal to feel like your
> student teaching experience is a roller coaster ride?

Welcome to teaching, Honey! All your days will be like this
forever. Some days you go home feeling like Super Teacher-
all plans got accomplished, kids "got" it, you had a great
observation..... Other days, you feel like a complete failure
and what are you doing here? Most days will be somewhere in
between.

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