Was today. Finally. After 2 months of worrying, stressing, planning, re-planning, it came. I was ready. I had read The First Days over the weekend and had put together a fabulous presentation. It was much longer then the 45 minutes of each class so I did not run out of stuff. Tomorrow I will finish [...]
So I spent the weekend putting together my presentation for my first day of class. I read that book over the weekend and took a lot of advice out of it. I have a whole presentation ready for what the procedures will be for a whole bunch of situations in the classroom. I think it [...]
One of the first classes I took in my quest to become a teacher was a class on classroom management. Ask almost any teacher and they will tell you this is the number one most important aspect of teaching. If you don’t have good classroom management it’s all over. In the beginning this was my [...]
This was written as I was substituting on Friday, July 17, 2009. I am substituting at Roosevelt High School for the last day of summer school. It’s a 5 hour day with one class. That alone is enough to make me crazy but this is the last day. The grades were turned in yesterday and [...]
I had Tuesday and Wednesday off and pretty much did nothing. I worked on some school work but that was about it. Thursday I had a new teacher orientation and today I substituted at Roosevelt High. It was the last day of summer school and I basically baby sat for 5 hours. That however is [...]
Summer school ended on Monday. My first official teaching job is over. How do I feel about it? Okay. There were some problems, like not getting the curriculum until 1 hour before class, and not laying down the rules on the first day, etc. But overall it went okay. I saw some things that really [...]
My first teaching assignment is almost over. I have today and then Monday and that’s it. On Tuesday I want to sit down and really reflect on all that I learned. Although I’d been studying teaching for a year, actually teaching was a huge learning experience. There are somethings you can talk about until you [...]
I ran into my first experience with cheating yesterday. I was giving a quiz and one girl was copying off another girl’s paper. It was pretty blatant and both of them were involved. I told them I knew about it and I told the vice-principal, now it’s a matter of what do I do??? I [...]
In spite of an incredibly busy weekend, with houseguets, I made it a point to have a lesson plan for today. I developed a worksheet for part of the info and a powerpoint for the other part. After the powerpoint I spontaneously came up with an activity for them. We were looking at patterns in [...]
Really, I don’t have time for the ones I have but I have time for another one?!?!?!? Actually, I really want to document my adventures as a school teacher. Although I’ve taken classes and studied, there is still so much to learn. So let’s begin. To catch up a little: I started teaching summer school [...]