I have now done farm craft five times. I have taught 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th graders. I have yet to have a bad experience and I do not expect to have one in the future. This is a great job, but I would not want to do it everyday. I am one of those people that cannot do the same thing again and again. Eventually I would go farm craft loony. I look forward to my days teaching Autumn Adventure and geology.
I definitely have a system down now. What I say and do at each station has been tuned nicely. Not to say it is perfect, because that would be a lie. We are always learning and with that improving. It is just in a good flow at the moment. I just love being with children again. It feels so good.
I have been thinking a lot about what I will do after this master's program. Part of me wants to try some new things, but a big part of me wants to return to the regular old elementary classroom. We will see.
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It sounds like you are feeling refreshed Ken by this experience. I wish there were more programs to keep teachers refreshed so they don't burn out on teaching. I think more of them would be willing to stay in the profession longer. I feel more in my element around kids than I ever do with a computer and I've been loving farm craft because it is all so familiar to me. I think I will feel less confident about geology because it has not been my area. Larry certainly got me excited about it but it is an area I still feel as if I have a lot to learn. But I know that learning is also part of being a teacher.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see that today seems to have gone well! Again, sorry I couldn't be here. I actually feel like I have had the luxury of diverse programming so far, so I do not yet have Farmcraft down pat. I'm actually looking forward to that. I guess I'm really just looking forward to getting better at ALL the programs! Looking ahead at the schedule, it looks like I ought to have FC pretty well figured out before long ;)
ReplyDeleteLots of farmcraft in the near future...
ReplyDeleteI think it would get old after awhile too. I am glad we will have other programs to be involved with. The classroom is different. Everyday is different.
Hard question huh: What to do when this is over?