After two days of Staff Development, which left me feeling fairly low and questioning my future, I woke up with dread this morning. This time with colleagues was hard, but what might be there awaiting my arrival at work today.
Over two weeks, what could go wrong with my students? How was I going to be "greeted"? I honestly felt sick to the stomach.
However, to make the long, long story much shorter, I need not have felt anything like this. In fact, my students today reminded me of why I do what I do.
It's an OLYMPIC term. The Sports Spectacle is about to burn itself into our minds for 16 days, and we are ready. In addition, being an Olympic year, I decided this would be a great opportunity to involve my students with the larger mainstream. I have put into action the School Olympics. The mechanics of this are not worth writing down.
The exciting part is that my students were so excited to compete, to play, to be social with other students. Not particularly in order to win, but to have fun and to play fair. In fact, some of the students were trying to think of ways to make games fairer for the younger students against which they would be competing. It was lovely to see.
In addition, upon taking the "invite" to our Olympics around to the other classes, the teachers seemed excited and glad to let some of their students participate. I am excited. I am hoping it all falls into place like I have it in my head. But either way, Social Skills are go and I feel better about my career!
Over two weeks, what could go wrong with my students? How was I going to be "greeted"? I honestly felt sick to the stomach.
However, to make the long, long story much shorter, I need not have felt anything like this. In fact, my students today reminded me of why I do what I do.
It's an OLYMPIC term. The Sports Spectacle is about to burn itself into our minds for 16 days, and we are ready. In addition, being an Olympic year, I decided this would be a great opportunity to involve my students with the larger mainstream. I have put into action the School Olympics. The mechanics of this are not worth writing down.
The exciting part is that my students were so excited to compete, to play, to be social with other students. Not particularly in order to win, but to have fun and to play fair. In fact, some of the students were trying to think of ways to make games fairer for the younger students against which they would be competing. It was lovely to see.
In addition, upon taking the "invite" to our Olympics around to the other classes, the teachers seemed excited and glad to let some of their students participate. I am excited. I am hoping it all falls into place like I have it in my head. But either way, Social Skills are go and I feel better about my career!
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