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So, my first day!
It was fine, and pretty relaxed. The weather was crappy, so school was delayed by one hour and got out an hour early. So it was like a warmup day, or something. :)
I mostly shadowed today. I observed a couple of classes. One was a class on the American legal system that my LMS was covering for a teacher who was out sick - basically, they watched videos of "Cops" for 1/2 an hour, and boy was that a good time! And the other class was one that was actually in the library. They were doing research for a health class project, so I helped some kids with that a little bit. I talked to the teacher whose class I'll be teaching in the library next week - she teaches lower-literacy kids, and I'll be doing the researchy unit on inventions with them that I wrote with my class partner from last semester. Tomorrow I'm bringing in the unit so we can go over it and figure out how to make it work for them. I also spent some time today planning my bulletin board - they're letting me to do the library bulletin board for while I'm there so I can take pictures to put in my portfolio. :) And then I had lunch, and when I was coming back, the announcement came over the loudspeaker that school would be closing at 12:50. Since I was in the hall, I could hear a roar of students cheering about this. :)
So, there we are. Tomorrow I get to get started on my planning a little more, and probably observe some more instruction. I'll also have a desk by then, methinks, and my very OWN key to the bathroom so I can go by myself like a big girl!
I have a headache that just won't quit, but I think that's related to the change in my sleep schedule and stuff. Other than that, I feel much better about life already - we're over the hump, people!
It was fine, and pretty relaxed. The weather was crappy, so school was delayed by one hour and got out an hour early. So it was like a warmup day, or something. :)
I mostly shadowed today. I observed a couple of classes. One was a class on the American legal system that my LMS was covering for a teacher who was out sick - basically, they watched videos of "Cops" for 1/2 an hour, and boy was that a good time! And the other class was one that was actually in the library. They were doing research for a health class project, so I helped some kids with that a little bit. I talked to the teacher whose class I'll be teaching in the library next week - she teaches lower-literacy kids, and I'll be doing the researchy unit on inventions with them that I wrote with my class partner from last semester. Tomorrow I'm bringing in the unit so we can go over it and figure out how to make it work for them. I also spent some time today planning my bulletin board - they're letting me to do the library bulletin board for while I'm there so I can take pictures to put in my portfolio. :) And then I had lunch, and when I was coming back, the announcement came over the loudspeaker that school would be closing at 12:50. Since I was in the hall, I could hear a roar of students cheering about this. :)
So, there we are. Tomorrow I get to get started on my planning a little more, and probably observe some more instruction. I'll also have a desk by then, methinks, and my very OWN key to the bathroom so I can go by myself like a big girl!
I have a headache that just won't quit, but I think that's related to the change in my sleep schedule and stuff. Other than that, I feel much better about life already - we're over the hump, people!