The Test Begins....
So, I'm in Atlanta for Teach for America Institute.
The past week has been sent in Raleigh, for induction into the Eastern North Carolina corps. I took four interviews with middle schools, all of which were good in one way or another, and should find out in the next few weeks which of them will be taking me on as a Language Arts teacher. Also, I met some fantastic people, got to know the beautiful region I'll call home for the next two years.
Tomorrow, I'll be getting up at 5am to catch a big yellow bus at 6:15 sharp to Deerwood Elementary School, where I'll be getting ready to take control of a classroom. They do their best to give us something close to what we'll be working with come fall, so I'm hoping for upper elementary, but for all I know I could be teaching first graders for the next month and a half (which I wouldn't mind at all... literacy is literacy, after all, and teaching is teaching).
Anyhow, just a quick update before my new early bedtime.... hopefully more as it happens. I set up a blog, http://mrlakin.blogspot.com, for possible future TfA related writing, but I have my concerns about Google-savvy students reading my reflections on their lives and education, no matter how positive they are. We shall see.
oh, PS: on my way out of Raleigh to Atlanta today, I stopped to get gas and snapped this picture on my cell of the convenience store:
The past week has been sent in Raleigh, for induction into the Eastern North Carolina corps. I took four interviews with middle schools, all of which were good in one way or another, and should find out in the next few weeks which of them will be taking me on as a Language Arts teacher. Also, I met some fantastic people, got to know the beautiful region I'll call home for the next two years.
Tomorrow, I'll be getting up at 5am to catch a big yellow bus at 6:15 sharp to Deerwood Elementary School, where I'll be getting ready to take control of a classroom. They do their best to give us something close to what we'll be working with come fall, so I'm hoping for upper elementary, but for all I know I could be teaching first graders for the next month and a half (which I wouldn't mind at all... literacy is literacy, after all, and teaching is teaching).
Anyhow, just a quick update before my new early bedtime.... hopefully more as it happens. I set up a blog, http://mrlakin.blogspot.com, for possible future TfA related writing, but I have my concerns about Google-savvy students reading my reflections on their lives and education, no matter how positive they are. We shall see.
oh, PS: on my way out of Raleigh to Atlanta today, I stopped to get gas and snapped this picture on my cell of the convenience store: