Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Coming to an End
At the end of this book I came to the realization that all good things must come to an end. Each year as teachers we will all be faced with the fact that we have to say to goodbye. In the end as a future teacher I hope that I will be able to know that I have prepared my students for the next year that they will encounter. I also came to realize that some years may have harder goodbyes then others. It seemed that this could have been Paley's hardest year to say goodbye. Through out this hole story there have been many stories that I have learned from. Sometimes it is children who are able to look at a problem in the correct light and are able to solve. Sometimes I feel that adults minds are not as open and sometimes are not able to find the answer that is right in front of them. While reading the Leo Liononi stories in class last time I would never have read as much into them as these children have. Sometimes in a classroom you have to take what the children are interested in and find ways to incorperate all the other lessons into that one topic. I hope that I will be as big of a part in my student's lives as Paley was with her students.
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I agree with you that it is hard to say good-bye and in Paley's case it must have been very hard because she had such a great experience with these children and it was her last year there. I hope, as well, that I can look at my students at the end of each year and know that I have prepared them for the years to come. We are able to see how these students have progressed because we are reading a story, but maybe if we keep a reflection log in the class room we can go back to the beginning of the year and see how far everyone has come. I think this is why we are asked to do so many reflections in the education department because they want us to be good at it because it will benefit us and our class when we are teachers ourselves. It is good for students to keep logs to, this way they can see for themselves their progress over the year, which can be quite rewarding for them.
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