See, I spent my teaching career in a variety of classroom situations, for Math and Science Specialist in a 1st grade classroom, 3rd grade, regular 4th , full-inclusion 4th, to a 4th Grade teacher who loops with the same students to 5th. I earned my National Boards Certificate as a Middle Childhood Generalist in that setting.
Now, I am exploring the world of teaching to every single student in the entire school.
How does this time of the year look different to a Specialist?
- For one thing, I know that I will get a chance to work with almost all of the students again next year. So, the sense of closure is different. I do not feel as if this week is my last chance to impart all of those nuggets of knowledge and life lessons.
- I had my 525 grades to the teachers last week. I am not poring through all of the data creating this child's last evidence of what he or she accomplished in this grade.
- I am not creating individual bundles of memories for a portfolio, signed with a note from me, for their future tied with a bow in a tidy little portfolio that will easily fit into a parent's memory box.
- I can easily make summer plans without feeling like I am in a tornado!
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