Starting fieldwork this Monday makes it even more real for me that within less than nine months the journey of my student career to become a teacher is about to end as my journey of becoming an actual teacher is about to begin. My nerves are reserved for the day when I am solely responsible for a classroom of my very own, but for now I am mostly excited and eager for 7:30am on Monday to finally arrive(although I'm sure that feeling will temporarily go away when my 6am alarm clock wakes me up from a sleep cut too short). I feel as if this is prime time in my experiences as a teacher in training, considering I will be getting support from my professors, cooperating teacher, and teacher partner. Knowing that I have someone to collaborate with and share the front stage of the classroom is definately a major stress reliever. Additionally, having a cooperating teacher who will be guiding me through working with the students, confirming lesson ideas, and providing "teacherly" advice is more than any inexperienced aspiring teacher could ask for. My cooperating teacher has already informed my partner and I what is currently being taught in all her courses and seems to be equally excited to have us become a part of her classroom. Having a teacher who is happily willing to become a part of our training and open up her classroom to us makes this experience even more beneficial. I know with the hard work and effort I will be putting into this experience along with support from others that there is no reason to be scared of failing, but rather every reason to be excited as I will finally be putting all my prior learnings from years past into action at last!
"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."
Vladimir
Lenin
