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    The author feels like they have been constantly juggling multiple responsibilities this semester as part of their teacher education program, represented metaphorically as spinning plates. These responsibilities include not only coursework and student teaching, but also classroom management, pedagogy, and building student connections while teaching. It has been a stressful experience trying to keep all of these plates spinning at once without dropping any. However, the author is gaining valuable experience and stamina that will help them be a successful teacher, and they are grateful to the teacher education program for providing this experience despite the challenges.

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    Sean Eichenser 11/24/13 PDS 216/219

    Clinical Reflection #5

    If I had to summarize my entire PDS experience in one image, it would be this. Coincidentally, I actually own a set of plates and know how to spin them, but this image is how I have felt the entire semester, for the betterment of my teaching and as a person. The entire semester I have been spinning more and more plates. Aside from work, class, teacher, student, personal life plates, within even my classroom I had the plates of classroom management, building connections, pedagogy, content knowledge. My brain has been pushed to its limit this semester spinning all these plates at once, and there is nothing else Id rather be doing with my life in this moment. It has been a stressful experience, because not only are we spinning all these plates as education majors, but were aware of every person waiting for us to drop a plate, so that they can properly reprimand us, or give us a Disposition Citation. Ask any education major, and they do not know the name of one person to go to for help, but they know the name of every person who can take their career from them. But we dont have time to dwell on these matters, because our primary concern is our students, and keeping our plates in the air. Education is nothing if not an energetic profession; you have to have high-energy just to survive in a classroom. This energy can allow a week to pass by in a second or drag on for a month, and it can feel like we are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. But it is worth it. I am rushed I am busy, I am spinning both the plate of teacher and student this semester which can be complicated, but next semester I will just be a teacher, with all the plates that comes along with. To be an educator is to keep spinning, it is the profession I signed up for and I couldnt be happier, albeit the first few months of spinning and spinning have been a bit tiring, the full-year experience has given me the stamina to endure it when I teach on my own. I am grateful to the PDS program for that.

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