Tomorrow is my interview for candidacy to student teach. I had to turn in an application, letters of recommendation, and an essay. Also you have to a 3.0 out of 4.0 GPA and pass your Basic Skills Exam to be considered. Well my GPA must of been up to par, and my application etc must have been great because I got the interview. I'm already going to be deferred once because I take my exam at the end of this month so I won't know completely until about March if I got in or not. You see, you have to be a candidate for student teaching in order to keep on taking Education and Special Education classes.
I am a teaching of Spanish major and my application went through the Spanish department. There were only 6 spots for interviews. I don't know if that was how many applicants or if they had to dwindle down the list. When asked why I want to be a teacher, where I want to teach, how will I set up my classroom I know my answers. I've written and rewritten my essay 3 or 4 times, and have answered this question for so many friends and family. Now what is making me so nervous is that this is all in Spanish. I have to speak Spanish in front of the two people that will decide what is the next step for me. Yes I have been speaking Spanish for quite some time but I still get flustered. Before I answer a question in Spanish classes I think about my answer first, and when I get called on randomly my face gets steaming hot and I get nervous. I only know of what they may ask me because a friend of mine had hers today. But yet she tells me how easy it was and not as bad as we thought...but easy for her to say, she is a native speaker. I can't help but feel they either expect me to be really good because I am a non native who thinks she can be a teacher or they expect me to be horrible for the same reason. I'm worried that my answers won't come out as well as I wanted them to or that I will be so nervous that I will completely blank. I don't want to have to reapply next year, I want to pass my exam and get in so I can follow my plan. This is my next step sort of to beginning my future. By getting into the program and being able to take the classes I need I can get to student teaching faster so I can graduate and start what I want to do in life... I can't help but wish that too bad this didn't depend on fashion first. My mom and I went shopping yesterday, and if it did oh man I would get accepted in a heart beat, haha.
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