First Impressions

I survived!  

Today was the first day and I decided to make a video about it. 

A couple of disclaimers:
1)  I may have made my lead teacher seem unappreciative or rude, but I really REALLY like her and she is a very nice woman who has already helped me a lot!
2) I mention the name "Jeffery" as an imaginary student- it is a fabricated name, there are no actual Jefferys in our class (not even middle names!).  It would be a serious FERPA violation to post something that discloses student info!
3) When talking about my 2nd placement, I wasn't using People First Language.  What I should have said was, "a classroom with students that have emotional behavioral disorders" instead of "emotionally disturbed" classroom.  Apologies!

One of my dogs was enthusiastically barking in the background AND there is a lot of traffic on the street behind me!  Overall, I feel that it was a great first day- it is not as overwhelming as you would think!  After the students left, we had a short staff meeting, and afterwards my lead teacher and I skyped with my supervisor (a part of the orientation process).