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How to Deal with Students with Senioritis (When You Are Also a Student with Senioritis)

  How to Deal with Students with Senioritis (When You Are Also a Student with Senioritis)             Wake up on the Monday morning of the last full week of student teaching, feeling groggy, cranky, and utterly exhausted despite the fact that you’ve just woken up from a full 10 hours of sleep. Lie in bed for ten or fifteen minutes longer than you really should, and then get up and frantically rush through your morning routine, scrapping steps as you go—steps that were easy to regularly follow at the beginning of the year but are not even fathomable now—like putting on makeup or packing a fresh and healthy lunch. Rush out the door and take your first deep breath of the day as you ride the elevator down to the parking lot, reminding yourself silently that there are only nine days of this left to go.             Pull into the school parking lot at 7:38am. Prior to this mon...