The 2010-2011 school year gave me the opportunity to embrace and express my repressed inner Ms. Frizzle. My previous location granted me the position of the Science teacher in their enhanced curriculum development program. I fell in love. They knew my potential before I realized it myself.
In my new location, they do not have the science program. As a matter of fact, there is a lack of science in my classroom in general. It's an acknowledged absence, but little done about it. After my successful experience last year, I attempt to insert my abilities and "expertise", but it is mostly unsuccessfully to this point.
Where's my inner Ms Frizzle gone?
I try and try to conjure her up, but she must be on vacation.
To find my niche in my new classroom, is my full time mission. How do you make a place that is supposed to come naturally, your own, after unconsciously forbidding it to yourself? My response: reminisce. Meaning, appreciate your history for what it was and the chapter it filled. Keep from pining or putting it up on a pedestal. Instead, find the good it was and did for you, apply the change-growth as a part of your current being rather than a conditional part of your personality outside the conditions.
I love and miss my old coworkers and the comfort of my "work home". I sniffle, thinking about my kiddos there and the joy they brought me. Here's to a lot of pleasant memories and the hope of some new, joint ones too!
PS- I realize my blog hasn't had ANY images yet, sorry! I will begin posting them, as I am finally figuring out how to. :)
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