It's been quite the nice week. I've hit up the beach. I've read nearly two books that were both good. I've played for 2 straight days at the pool. I got my fancy educator's license in the mail after a long wait (although I was disappointed that it's just a piece of paper and not a laminated card for my wallet that says "I'm a Teacher!" or something like that). And I passed my fourth, and last, massachusetts teacher test.
But, I'm seeing the end of my vacation rapidly approaching. I have to begin my practicum a week from today. I was under the impression that there's a reading specialist in the school, but then the four other reading students and I practice our stuff kind of as backup reading specialists. But then I found out that we're the only ones, and that i'm THE reading specialist for the first and second grade. Which is kind of scary. And scarier still is that I'm supposed to be a mentor for the regular student teachers in the first and second grade...like, have them observe me teaching different kinds of reading/writing lessons, or observe them & give them feedback. Since I'm the only one of the five reading specialists who hasn't had her own classroom, I don't quite feel qualified doing that. I can't imagine it'll take too long for the student teachers to realize that I have no idea what's going on.
But, in a mere 8 weeks, I'll be totally done. And have an M.Ed. after my name. I like it because if you look quickly it almost looks like MD, except it took me two years to earn my title, not 8. And I fully intend to sign everything that way, at least for the first day.
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