Last night I talked to Nathan over the phone, and related to him all my stress about having to be observed. For some reason, it doesn't bother me to have people watch me teach... unless they are there to critique my teaching, and they sit in the back with a clipboard. Then, it's awful. That's what happened on Monday. My mentor brought some lady from the district to observe all of us new teachers--- and it was awful.
Well, this morning I was getting ready for school to start and making copies and whatnot, when Susan, the secretary, comes in to tell me that there is a young man that has come to visit me! That's right, after class, he came over to the school to see me. Not only that, but he had brought a gift, which he called, the "Observation Bear." It was a large, soft teddy bear, carrying two rulers that read, "Observation Bear" in sparkly glittery letters. He told me that he'd put him up somewhere in my classroom, and then next time I got observed, the bear would observe them and that he would only have nice things to say about me, unless they said mean things about me, and then he would say mean things about them!
It was really cute, and the cutest part had much less to do with the fact that he came over this morning. The cutest part, I think, was realizing that he was listening to what I was saying last night. And cared enough to come up with a "solution," and that at eleven o'clock last night, he was at Wal-Mart buying a teddy bear and making rulers with glittery letters on it for some girl to overcome her irrational fears. And just thinking of him being so excited to surprise me this morning....now that's the cutest part.
I told the children that the bear had come to observe them-- and to see all of the nice things that they do for each other in our classroom. We had a lesson on Thanksgiving today and on gratitude. So, we passed the bear around and told him what we were thankful for. I told the bear about how thankful I was for my kindergartners. They really liked that. I think the bear gives them kind of a secure feeling.... maybe it's just me.
Well, this morning I was getting ready for school to start and making copies and whatnot, when Susan, the secretary, comes in to tell me that there is a young man that has come to visit me! That's right, after class, he came over to the school to see me. Not only that, but he had brought a gift, which he called, the "Observation Bear." It was a large, soft teddy bear, carrying two rulers that read, "Observation Bear" in sparkly glittery letters. He told me that he'd put him up somewhere in my classroom, and then next time I got observed, the bear would observe them and that he would only have nice things to say about me, unless they said mean things about me, and then he would say mean things about them!
It was really cute, and the cutest part had much less to do with the fact that he came over this morning. The cutest part, I think, was realizing that he was listening to what I was saying last night. And cared enough to come up with a "solution," and that at eleven o'clock last night, he was at Wal-Mart buying a teddy bear and making rulers with glittery letters on it for some girl to overcome her irrational fears. And just thinking of him being so excited to surprise me this morning....now that's the cutest part.
I told the children that the bear had come to observe them-- and to see all of the nice things that they do for each other in our classroom. We had a lesson on Thanksgiving today and on gratitude. So, we passed the bear around and told him what we were thankful for. I told the bear about how thankful I was for my kindergartners. They really liked that. I think the bear gives them kind of a secure feeling.... maybe it's just me.
2 comments:
Alisa, he's such a keeper! That's adorable. Well, I'm not sure if I'll be great at this but I started a blog.
You did? Where's your blog at? I want to read it!
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