The purpose of this blog is to serve as a space to reflect on my practice this year. It's still just that: practice. I've been at this for ten years and I still feel decades away from calling myself an expert. Is it that I am just not suited to this business of education, or is there something unique about my journey that lends itself to fallibility and naivete? That's what I'd like to figure out here. What do I know? Why haven't I figured this out yet?
That said, I hope to discover that after all this time I do, after all, know a few things about teaching. At the very least, this sure as hell better be my best year of teaching yet.
The facts:
- This is the first year I will teach the same grade in the same school TWICE (since my first two years of teaching, which were a blurry train wreck)
- I have the same teaching assistant as last year. She has a teaching degree and is smart.
- I have the same students as last year, the second year of a "loop."
- I am teaching third grade: the best year in a human life
- I am teaching in an Expeditionary Learning charter school with the most intelligent, compassionate administration I have ever experienced.
Given the circumstances, I should be able to rock this gig. That, of course, remains to be seen. Nine days until the students arrive.
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