My Year as an Intern

     My year as an intern has been great, I have learned so many things and I have had so much fun. I have also had some ups and downs, but I'm glad it has been more ups than downs. I can remember at the beginning of the year I was a little nervous about being in a classroom where at one point I was going to be the teacher for a couple of minutes. Seeing all the kids having fun while learning made me realize that helping them was what I wanted to do. When I finally started doing more things like dancing, reading, and talking with the kids I realized that this was going to be fun. Some of my downs I had was when I thought I wasn't taking the time I needed to do more things that involved the class. I think I could've been more involved.
     I think I started feeling my nausea when I realized that the end of the year was coming. I was excited to get out of school but I wasn't too excited about leaving my internship classroom. I started feeling sad about not having the opportunity to go into that classroom where everybody was happy to be in. I wasn't going to have the chance to dance and sing with all the kids and see them getting better at reading and writing. I learned that teachers can't get too attached to students because once the end of the year comes it will all be over and new students will come to start a new year again.
     I had a lot of elations this year, one of them was when I thought my first lesson. I was really nervous about how the students were going to react when they saw I was teaching them a new lesson instead of their teacher. When I started reading the book and I saw that they were actually interested in it all my bad feeling went. I also loved how they were reading some of the lines along with me. The activity that followed was a little messy but the kids were able to handle it and I was able to keep control of everybody, that made feel really good.
     After all the things I have experienced while being an intern, I have learned that being a teacher is sometimes hard and frustrating but this is what I want to do when I grow up. There is only one thing that I wish I could've done different, that is to not be as shy as I was the first couple of days I was in the classroom.