Getting ready...

Residency is making me more than a little nervous. I see how many different things my teacher has going each day and I wonder how in the world I'll be able to handle it all. Lesson planning for my first residency week was actually not that hard since our school uses so many "scripted" or "boxed" curriculums. I hope that I'll be able to incorporate some of my ideas into the daily grind because many days I am here seem the same. I'd love to "mix it up" a little. I am interested to see how the kids adjust to me being the full time teacher. Yes, they have already gotten used to me teaching a few lessons each day, but they have always acted a little different with me than they have with my mentor. I feel like I need to be stern and strict from the beginning because we really have some challenging kiddos in our classroom. We'll see how it goes...