Patience with the Placements

Okay, so I know a lot of you have heard by now that I do have my student teaching placements!!  What a crazy ride that started a long time ago, but finally picked up the pace last Thursday.

I've been praying a lot lately for these placements.  I am so excited to get out there and get more into teaching.  I spent a lot of that afternoon praying.

I left class early to get to the meeting.  Honestly, I only kind of knew one person in a room of about 20.  I feel like I'll be making a lot of new friends next semester at the weekly meetings.  Naturally, my coordinator wanted to build suspense and waited to give us our placements until the end of the meeting.  It was killing everyone!

Finally, it was time.  The tough part was that I only received one of my placements.  She was still trying to secure my second placement; my special ed. placement.  Ugh!  Really?  I was slightly frustrated, but satisfied that I at least knew something.

I called Whitney first.  Then I called Momma.  Then I called Momma Abe.  I was all sorts of excited because I felt like I was finally getting somewhere!

Monday came and I received an e-mail telling me I would have my second placement in Newton at the middle school.  I am so excited for this!  So many good things were said about the teacher and the students. I am so excited to learn and be challenged in a room like this!  :)

Tuesday I finally got around to contacting my teachers.

Wednesday I got a call and e-mail from my coordinator saying that there would be a switch with my first placement.  Instead of being close by in Grinnell, I was being changed to South Tama.  I still don't know the whole story of why the teacher couldn't take me, but it was something to do with her family.  She didn't feel she would be able to give me the best experience with all the stuff going on.  This news bummed me out a little bit, just because I wasn't expecting this to happen.

I have no idea why this little switch had to take place, but I know that God is in control, and that He will teach me so many lessons no matter the school I am placed in.  I gave him my career path a long time ago, and I am determined to follow where that leads.  I will continue to pray and to have faith in His plan.

I read over James 4 yesterday, and verses 7 stuck out to me:

Submit yourselves, then, to God.