tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684316.post8329048248406994157..comments2024-02-18T10:34:56.951-05:00Comments on Middle School, day by day from a teacher's point of view: cossondrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132453976247479697noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684316.post-57579493272246147052011-02-02T07:44:56.768-05:002011-02-02T07:44:56.768-05:00Thanks for the positive comments everyone. It was ...Thanks for the positive comments everyone. It was just a downer day. Hopefully, things will look brighter today.<br /><br />DiDi - Take a look at this article: http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2010/11/02/tln_georgecoteaching.html<br /><br />It's been an interesting year, but frustrating in many ways. I just need to find ways to be positive and work through the tough times with a better attitude.cossondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06720044849447817480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684316.post-65193852270437075122011-02-02T05:31:07.788-05:002011-02-02T05:31:07.788-05:00Cossondra, I now how you feel. I'm going thro...Cossondra, I now how you feel. I'm going through the same thing myself and the state CMTs are coming up soon. But, on Monday after school, a former student came by to greet his former teachers. I asked how he was doing. He is happy in H.S.. I also asked if the material he learned in Math in M.S. helped him. He responded enthusiastically, "YES". It made my day. It was confirmation that what I did mattered although it may not have felt like it when he was in M.S.<br /><br />Your students are trying hard and I guess it will sink in during H.S. Keep on smiling and best to Green BayTonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684316.post-984919624157802212011-02-01T20:34:20.029-05:002011-02-01T20:34:20.029-05:00Wow, this is an eye opener. I am currently in coll...Wow, this is an eye opener. I am currently in college working towards getting my teacher certificate, I did a clinical in a special ed classroom and heard a lot of the same things from the special ed teacher. It is very discouraging to know that the plans for kids in need aren't getting what they need at all.Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15344276710826618589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684316.post-52819871392033431462011-02-01T20:14:09.249-05:002011-02-01T20:14:09.249-05:00So, Cossondra, when I'm a full-fledged teacher...So, Cossondra, when I'm a full-fledged teacher in a general ed classroom, what is it that I can do to make the special ed teacher's role meaningful? What would you have the general ed teacher do for you that would make you feel as though you are truly collaborating with the teacher and truly helping these kids?<br /><br />-Di DiMasquerading Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16226502012664363725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5684316.post-24586523249644667662011-02-01T19:08:36.572-05:002011-02-01T19:08:36.572-05:00Don't lose heart Cossondra. Maybe it's ti...Don't lose heart Cossondra. Maybe it's times like these where you have to believe that there is a bigger plan at work....(I mean the BIG plan as in God's plan). Somehow you are supposed to be there...for a reason you clearly aren't able to see right now because of the crazy circumstances.<br /><br />If you lose heart, your kids will have no glimmer of hope because maybe you are the glimmer?????<br /><br />When times seem like this to me and I'm blocked at every angle, I just have to sit back and believe that I'm not in charge. And being who am I is enough and probably why I'm in that situation anyway.<br /><br />So bring you to your gifts....your smile, hope, a willingness to believe they can do it if just given a shred of effective help....I don't know. But it's enough and probably all you're really suppose to be doing now.<br /><br />Hang in there.takefivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18233247194421936310noreply@blogger.com