When the Light Bulb Turns On

This week was a great week for making improvements. With the National FFA week and all of the activities that follow, I am very proud with how the students came together to see it all through. At the beginning of the week, students were scrambling around putting all of the ideas they had together and executed a very good teacher dinner.

With school being cancelled the day before the Teacher Dinner, I was very worried that the items students promised to bring would not appear for the dinner. Some of the items did come in, however, other items were not present. Fortunately, some students were able to have parents bring them in throughout the day and others had friend pick them up. This was a great learning experience for me as an educator to have a plan B, plan C, and even a plan D. However, when it all came together and students were given thanks from the other teachers, they were very happy of their work and dedication to see it through.

The classroom this week was also a very inspiring for me as an educator. I have some students that an outside person may not think would do very well, however, they were my best students at the task. I was curious as to what their parents may say so I called one family and had the other family in my parent teacher conferences. They were both very happy with how their students were doing in the class and said that their child was always excited for my class. This was a great thing to hear from them and it was even more inspiring to keep me motivated.