acting like a detective in a public school, taking my notes for change!

[maya]

I have been on this journey working in schools that are part of the public school system. I am taking my notes of what I do like. I voice my opinion about things at one job,there, I have been the minority in that, or at least it seems to be like that so far. I got a new job, but they don't know I look at it as paid field work. I will be quiet and take my mental notes. I already went to one meeting, and the way they were all looking over tests scores, it was like a bunch of ants over a potatoe chip, taking it apart, scurrying around. I admire their care and wanting the children to learn. I made my body look over the paper, yet inside, I was thinking how much I would love to work in a school that does not test like that.

I would love to work in some kind of school that is really laid back, and the parents are at least some what the same way!
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I had one child who would never sit at circle time, no matter what I tried it would not work. I knew that he had to in one sense, because why should I let him go, but the others have to stay, chaos could erupt, children everywhere, and yet at the same time, I know, that conforminty is not always fun, and sometimes so incredibly uncomfortable. When I exhausted everything I knew, I let the child go, a few feet away, I could see him, hoping the rest of the class would stay, and they did! I was not the boss so this was interesting, but I know it was so hard for that child to sit and stay at circle time.

He was still nearby, and he heard everything. He may have listened in parts. He absorbed things in his own way, as we all do. I would so love to work in an atomsphere that fostures different learning styles and to have it in a way, that can be different groups within a class. So I will work at a place that is temporary, and take my notes and get ready for what I rather do!