March- supposedly the hardest month

Happy March everybody!

Well, I have heard from all of the teachers at my school that March is the hardest month to get through. February has a few Mondays off and April gives us spring break, but March is long and unforgiving (so they tell me). But, I have to say that this last few week have been  AWESOME and I feel like March will be good for me.

Mind you, March will definitely be tough. And here are a few reasons why:

Tough Month Reason #1:
This is the month I get to really start looking for jobs. At the end of March, there will be a Teacher Fair at BYU and, boy, am I nervous! I am getting my letters of recommendation from key people and finalizing my resume, but it is so scary thinking that I am going to have to sell my skills and convince schools that they really do want me. Then there is always the fear of the unknown. Will I have to move? Will I have to move out of Utah? Will I be happy where I get a job? Will I love another grade like I have loved my 7th graders this year? Will I like the school and the English team? Ahhhh! So many questions.

Tough Month Reason #2:
I have my final interview with my college professor this month to review this year as an intern. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my supervising professor. She has helped me sooo much and I don't know if I would have been able to survive this intern year without her. But, I still get nerves having to have this final interview. We will go over my lesson plans (yes, I have an overflowing binder with all of my lesson plans from the year), we'll see the evaluaitons I received from my mentor teacher and my students (I'll come back to talking about those evaluations later), and we'll

Tough Month Reason #3:
Term 3 ends and the last term begins. I dont know why, but the start and end of a term is just hard. It's hard to look at grades at the end of the term and self-evaluate what I could have done, should have done, will eventually do better in my teaching. This term seems to have flown by, and it has been difficult to implement some of the things I thought about at the end of last term. I have last minutes assignments to grade and next (and last) term to plan. Wow, I am a busy woman!