Fieldwork Overload

I don't think preparing for fieldwork is really possible.
Is it?

You have to mentally prepare yourself to somehow wrangle students you don't know into a room to lecture them and hopefully engage them in a content area they may love or they may hate. On top of that, for this particular class, our fieldwork is on display for our peers as well as for our professor.

So how do you prepare?

You read a lot, research even more and tell yourself that somehow, someway, it will all be okay.
Because for all the stress and run around, gathering materials, losing pages, computers crashing and deciding at the last minute to change your objective, it all boils down to whether or not you walk in that door with personality, performance and an ability to call a child by his name.

For this particular fieldwork experience I will be drawing upon the use of my prior experience in Bishop Dunne. I feel confident that I can work with almost all age groups, that I can engage kids, challenge them and keep the rhythm of a classroom. No easy feat by any means, but it is why I want to become a teacher in the first place.

As I sit here and review the rubrics, glance at the Unit Plan that is still being developed and watch yet another snow day come drifting by, I am excited to get into the classroom!