So I am officially part of the 2015 Teach for America Corp in Dallas/Fort Worth for 2015. I came on in the 6th deadline. The last deadline. This is posed a whole batch of issues . . . mostly time. But I am so excited to start working as a teacher in a city I love. I am so excited so start working against education inequality. I am assigned as a Middle School Generalist. Yes, I cried at first. But then I thought, "I want to stop the womb to prison pipeline and end education inequity. And bunch of middle schoolers in a low-income area are about to be taught by a PhD." Seriously, they are lucking out and I am about to make a huge difference. Yeah, that may be a brazen thing to say, but I can feel it in my bones.
That aside. I have no idea what is going on. I need a day off, but I don't know if it is granted by the powers that be. I need to take my test, but I have hardly anytime to study, and I am an old person, so I haven't taken middle school math in a million years. I'm pretty nervous about it. I don't know what is going on with housing for the summer. That kinda makes planning for my little kids . . . challenging. I just wish information was a little faster coming. I understand that most corp members are fresh out of their BA and are like 21 so this is a whole new world for them, but it is a little different for me.
I took the first diagnostic which I totally bombed. Then I found out that it really had nothing to do with my subject area. So, I took a second diagnostic for my subject area, and I got a 76%. I cried. Then I studied. Then I took another diagnostic, and I got a 94%. My husband says that should make me feel like I am going to pass just fine, but I don't. I'm sitting here, books open. Thinking about crying. Which makes me wonder how much crying taking this job is actually going to involve.
Ok, back to the books.
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