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Hi! My name is Jordan Gibbons and I am a dual major studying elementary and special education at Edinboro University. I am currently student teaching at Cambridge Springs High for special education.

            I am from Buffalo, New York. I loved growing up in the city but decided that I needed a change so I came to Edinboro. At Edinboro I ran cross country and track for only a year. I grew up running and it’s something that I love to do but it just became too much with balancing out school.  In my spare time I also love to read. Jodi Piocult is my absolute favorite author.

So far I have completely loved my placement. I was extremely nervous on the first day but my cooperating teacher and the students I have are awesome. She has already helped me a lot just in these first two days. She is very flexible and has made it really easy for me to not be afraid to ask her for help with anything at all. She also has me taking over lessons very slowly which I’m very happy with, so that this way I can gradually get used to the work.  On my first day I met all the different students and gave a little introduction of myself. She had me reading “Tuesdays with Morrie” to her language arts class. Language arts is the first class starting next week that I am going to be taking over and I’m already very excited. I observed most of the rest of the day and even got all four of my observations done. Today is my second day and I am going to be staying all night for the “senior project night”.  I have been here since eight am and will not be leaving the school until the project night is over which is 8:30 pm. As long as a day as it is I am very interested to see what “senior project night” is all about. So far today I have been interacting a lot with the students and helping them do homework during the resource room periods. I am extremely excited to see what else is about to come in these next couple months.