There are a lot of things that scare me about being a new teacher. Mostly, I don’t want to have to stop being the person I am for fear that a parent, a student, a teacher, will read what I like to write about and turn it into a big deal. I value life and experiences and I truly love to challenge myself by writing about them, fiction or non. I fear having to hide my writing and my photography, essentially myself, in order to keep all areas of my life “clean” and professional. I understand what the professional world demands and expects of me, and I am prepared to give that. I do not, however, want to feel uncomfortable, like I cannot be myself for the possibility of upsetting someone. If I cannot feel comfortable with the person I bring to the education world, how will I be able to expect others to feel comfortable around me? How will any of us reach one another?
I am hoping that this last semester of classes before my experience in student teaching not only guides me in classroom instruction but also helps me find a way to embrace myself through my teaching methods so that I can offer all I have to my students.
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