The time has come to start packing and to say farewell to Ireland. I cannot believe that my time here has come to an end already. I have had such an amazing experience student teaching in Ireland and I am so thankful to have been a part of this program. I have been so fortunate to have met and worked with the teachers and students at my placement. I also feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to travel throughout Ireland, as well as over to England and France...

I am officially done student teaching, I can't belive it's already over. Wasn't it just yesterday that I was a scared little freshmen, too afraid to talk in class? This last week has been a bit hectic, but I've survived and learned a lot in the process. Monday went well and the underlining/circling activity was a success. As soon as we broke down and identified the information in each problem, the issues they had last week seemed to clear right up. I was very ha...

Only a week and a half left before my stint here in Ireland comes to an end. It's very bittersweet. I'll be extremely excited to get home and see everyone, but at the same time I'm not really ready for my trip to end. This week I've been working hard on my senior portfolio and getting the last week of lessons all ready to go. I'm still very nervous for my last observation, but there's not much more I can do to prepare. I'm as ready as I'll ever be for it and tha...

Well today didn't exactly go as planned. The excitement for their trip tomorrow + tougher material = getting no work done in class. The first years have an overnight trip tomorrow so they came into class with an extremely excited and talkative attitude. We needed to go over their quizzes from last week and work on new word problems. I had already anticipated them having trouble with these new problems but their lack of attention made it nearly impossible to make ...

I'm excited it is Friday because that means I get to do some more exploring around Ireland, but it also means my time here is quickly coming to an end. I'm disappointed I only have two weeks left at my school here. I'm going to miss the kids and other teachers here. Although the silver lining is that I get to go home, see all my friends and family and graduate, in approximately 22 days, but who's counting?This was a good week overall. I gave my first years a quiz...