Today went alright- I am a bit more organized and I think I am ready to attend my first Individualized Educational Plan meeting for one of my students on Wednesday. His guardian will be there, he will be there, me, my two supervisors, the school nurse, psych and social worker will all be there. So I have to have all of my data, information, etc prepared and ready to talk about my student.
Any tips on working with adults? Working with people is the least controllable aspect of a career - and the funny thing is as I am trying to teach my students how to work together and get along, I am struggling myself to work well with the people at my school and get along with them. When you collect multiple perspectives and experiences, its inevitable that you will have varying opinions and disagreements across the board. But I feel like in this first month of school I have had more argumentative and confrontational meetings and encounters with co-workers than I ever thought I would. This part of education and teaching is stressful, because its grown, educated ADULTS that can't get along- how are we supposed to be expected to teach peace when we can't even practice it ourselves?
When I move on from this, one of my goals is to teach teachers how to get along with other teachers! And how to teach and practice peace in the classroom.
Peace to you, thanks for caring about my thoughts.
C
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