Just Breathe!
So I have finished my teaching and been back to my classroom a few times and it has been a breath of fresh air. I sit in the back of the room and have no responsibility and it feels so great compared to the stress that I felt when I was teaching. The students still get excited though when I walk in and ask me if I am teaching and look depressed when I tell them no. This warms my heart to think that they actually did like my lessons! So now, I am going to get that time in. It is very strange to go from being the focus of the classroom to just observing again. A part of me feels really guilty that I am not helping the teacher more out now that I finished my teaching. But I am still learning about how to be an effective English teacher and it has been interesting to see how Mrs. Russell presents her material versus what I did. She stole the idea that I used when I had the students write on notecards. She really like that as way to trick the students into writing more than they feel like they can when there is a big open sheet of notebook paper.