Yay for Crises.

So I had quite the professional crisis this past week, and if you know me at all, you know that means it lead to a personal crisis too. I'm a little emotional that way! :)

Without going into details, I was given the strong idea from a few people that:

-everything I'm doing in my classroom is wrong

-my educational philosophy is wrong

-I'm failing my students and everyone else

-more not fun stuff along those lines...

This lead to several days of little/no sleep, losing 5 pounds from not being able to eat cuz I was so stressed/depressed and generally crying 24/7. I was a wreck.

I finally sat down with my amazing Early Ed directors and poured everything out. They thankfully gave me some much needed encouragement and direction on how to deal with all this.

I sat down this weekend to really, REALLY analyze my educational philosophy and why I do things the way I do. When I did it was great to realize that I'm NOT a failure. NOT everything I was doing was wrong.

Yeah, some things needed tweaking and I was hugely lacking guidance in a few areas, but overall, I'm a good teacher.

I'm not one of the greats, but I think I have the potential to be one day with experience, mentoring and effort.

What do you, I'm pretty good at my job after all. No matter what some people say.