My First Post!

I am extremely excited to get this new school year started and I had a great first day at my placement school!  I actually have a unique situation this year;  I was placed with two cooperating teachers for my pre-student teaching and student teaching.  I was slightly worried about this at first but after meeting both of them, I believe that they will be fantastic mentors to me.  They both have their own teaching styles and I am confident that I will be able to steal ideas from them that will work best for my own classroom. 

I still feel like a novice in the classroom compared to the two wonderful teachers that I will be working with, but hopefully as the year progresses I will become more comfortable and will start to feel like a "real" teacher.  My major goal for this semester is to get know my students and be able to develop effective and enjoyable lessons that align with our content standards.  I really hope that this year will prepare me as much as possible for my first year of teaching. (I still can't believe that by this time next year, I'll have my own classroom!!)