My last week at Manhattan Jr. High school went by way too quickly. I do not want to leave my students. It is so crazy to me that I became so attached to students that I knew I was going to be leaving in 9 weeks. I am so invested in what they are going to learn and how they were practicing and they started to see me as a real teacher and told me about their days and their lives at home.
Leaving on Friday was so hard, but I can not wait to meet my new class and try my hand at general music. I have an instrumental and a vocal background and studied both at Monmouth College so general music, with the singing programs, is going to be very fun and different, considering I am coming from 9 weeks of the band. I really enjoy elementary school students, because in music classes they are still so excited and want to be there. Basically, any new idea that you teach them they want to learn and it is new and something different from their traditional classes.
My cooperating teacher for my next placement has not had a student teacher in 18 years, not since she was a 1st-grade teacher. It will be interesting to see how she handles handing over her classroom to me. My last cooperating teacher and I had a good relationship and worked well together and I learned a lot. I can only hope that this cooperating teacher and I can have the same type of working relationship.
I know how hard it can be to leave the students in which you have invested so much time and effort. The best thing to do now is to put that same investment into your new group of students. That's the thing about teaching - you do this every year.
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