I think we have some excellent conversation going on, and I hope you will all read the final post and comment from last week. That post and comment leads me to this week's reflective question for you. "What was the situation that caused me the greatest anxiety or distress this past week - the kind of situation that I kept replaying in my mind as I was dropping off to sleep, or caused me to say to myself, I don't want to go through this again for a while?"


The situation I had this week that caused me to replay it over in my mind as I was dropping off to sleep was I received 2 write ups in the pass 2 months and both of them was for not summiting lesson plans when we all know I have at least 50 lesson plans during the summer to last me for some months. well to come to find out I was summiting them in the wrong drop box folder in Google the folder from last year and didn't know that there was a new folder for this year. Instead of someone asking me or giving me a warning , I just received a write up .I am still new and I am not receiving a lot of help here. The administrator just thinks I should know. I was going to send her an email to schedule a meeting. OH the second write up was from I was recently sick and out of school on an emergency, I had summited an emergency lesson plan at the beginning of the school year, an emergency sub lesson plan which I thought they were suppose to be used in case of an emergency. When I returned back to school, I returned to a write for not submitting lesson plans again which I gave to my department chair. I was so distressed, I actually wanted to quit until I thought of why I was actually at the school. Its for the kids and that is my main purpose.


I also agree with Tee, I do this every morning before I go into school. Knowing that I have a purpose and I am at the school for the students makes my work so rewarding and I am always grateful to even have the opportunity so whether my day is stressful which leads me to having anxiety if I have reached just one kid that day and encouraged and taught one student something new all of other obstacles will be okay. After all I love what I do and I am going to continue to persevere.