Second Verse NOT same as the first!

Wow! What a final week it has been. Still a few hiccups, but so much great information. My cooperating teacher was very rigorous but in a good way. I really feel that she did a great service to me, kicking my rear in gear! She treated me with as much care and consideration for my success as she does with her smaller students. I am honored to have been able to serve and learn in her classroom.

On Friday she and the students had a farewell party for me during "Fun Friday" they all made me cards and there were lots of hugs and one purple stuffed gorilla given to me as well. I'm looking forward to emailing Ms. S. and her great kids about how things are going in my next placement, and to see how they are coming along. It is hard to leave them, although I will get to see them Monday evening, as they are performing their Greece Rome and Mali presentation at 7 and I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Moving forward, I've met my next teacher, at the next school. This school has little in common with my last one, although oddly, their mascot name is "The Braves" and the school I just left is as well. hmm. The room number of the new placement is 126, my last...326. Okay that's a little coincidental.

Ms. B, the new teacher, is very affable. She has plenty of experience to share, and has told me that she welcomes my creativity and tech savvy. The school is older, and though she has 3 desktops and a laptop in the room, There is no room mounted projector and the monitor in the room doesn't work with the computer thought it is supposed to. (I'll be checking into that for sure.)

The school does have Smartboards and cows that can be checked out and I will be availing myself of them I'm sure. I also plan to assemble a portable technology ensemble that I can go back and forth with. A friend in the networking biz. has offered to loan me an old underused projector, and I have several good movie screens and that's a start!

It will be interesting, I have been really fortunate in my career thus far, in that the places I have spent the most time in have all been team work oriented. Mrs. B says that isn't so at her school. Disappointing, but what can you do? Mrs. B and I will be a team and that will be fine.

Until later.

David