Well, it's finished- Boot Camp, my own personal, week long trip to the circle of hell Dante forgot. My classmates may not have the same opinion of this "journey" that I did, but honestly by Wednesday (aka Day 3) I was fed up and done with the whole process. I know it was an important rite of passage and a lot of the information was stuff I didn't know because it was on a need to know basis, like the legality of food in your classroom or specifically what you do when your student...fill in the blank. I feel though that the exam, which was the same pre-test I took Monday, was kind of bogus. I don't feel it accurately assessed anything I got out of the week and being spoon fed answers the day before made me feel like I hadn't learned anything after all. We've been taught to help our students when they don't know something not give them the answers, so this whole thing just seemed pointless and hypocritical to me. Maybe I'm cynical, but honestly I'm not going to remember any of the law cases we learned or the 3 steps to building/rebuilding a student/relationship/something...see, I don't even remember the basis for the info I "learned."
Whatever. The most important thing is that I get a 90% or above to show that I "understand" and "learned" and can therefore be allowed in a classroom because a percentage score shows my aptitude to be in a classroom as a teacher. Just like the number of words/paragraphs in my philosophy of education is more important than the content.
Just please, for the love of mercy, let me in the classroom now.
PS- I apologize for my whiny attitude. I would like this to be an accurate reflection of my thoughts and feelings as I attempt to complete my final semester in college, prepare to enter the real world, and get married.
PPS- I'm super excited to start student teaching on Tuesday!!! :)
PPPS- Sorry for the super amount of quotation marks in this post.
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