Today I got observed and evaluated by my college supervisor for the first time! I surprisingly wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be, partly because I had a busy morning (which included fixing a copy machine by myself! Which I will brag about forever).
The class went very well until the end when they complained by saying that I give too much homework. They tried to vote against my homework but I shot that idea down quickly!
Anyway, my supervisor really praised my lesson and thought I was off to a really great start. Hearing that was really nice and such a relief.
Third block was a bit crazy. My cooperating teacher fainted and had to go home which really shook the kids up; totally understandable. She will not be in tomorrow so I'm not sure what will go on for that class.
After school we all went to a teacher job fair right at Merrimack. It was good, I gave out a bunch of resumes to different school districts.
And my outfit...black pants, black camisole, silver shirt with black stripes, black flats and my hair half pulled back :)
I'm off to lesson plan!
Katie
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
First day in charge of Modern American Lit!
Today was my first day in full control of my lower level Modern American Lit class. Actually, Ms. G needed them for the first half hour so I had them for however much time was left. Not going to lie...it was sort of a disaster.
I had given the TA a short story to copy yesterday to give to the students today. She did them, I put them away, great. Well, today I passed out the story for the kids to read and do an activity with and one of my students came up to me and said "There is a page missing." I thought maybe it was just his packet but no...every single packet was missing a page (which just happened to contain the main pieces of the story). Wow, big fail. I don't know what happened to that stupid missing page...I had it in my original copy of the story and I don't know if I didn't give the TA all the pages or if she lost one in the shuffle...either way I should have checked the packet over and I didn't. Lesson learned. Luckily there were booklets for a different class in the room that had my short story in it so I passed those out to the kids and they were able to read the story from there. Apparently, though, I'm not very good at judging time because I gave them about 20 minutes to read the story and I guess they didn't finish. Ms. G said these students will typically need about 40 minutes to read that sort of thing, even if it seems like a short piece to me. I also finished with the activity early, probably because I didn't give them enough time to read, so they had 10 minutes at the end of class doing nothing. Needless to say I felt sort of like a failure after that class, although I know I was just being too hard on myself.
So hopefully tomorrow will go more smoothly. I am teaching 2nd and 3rd blocks because Ms. E will not be there. Busy day!
Always check things twice!
Katie
I had given the TA a short story to copy yesterday to give to the students today. She did them, I put them away, great. Well, today I passed out the story for the kids to read and do an activity with and one of my students came up to me and said "There is a page missing." I thought maybe it was just his packet but no...every single packet was missing a page (which just happened to contain the main pieces of the story). Wow, big fail. I don't know what happened to that stupid missing page...I had it in my original copy of the story and I don't know if I didn't give the TA all the pages or if she lost one in the shuffle...either way I should have checked the packet over and I didn't. Lesson learned. Luckily there were booklets for a different class in the room that had my short story in it so I passed those out to the kids and they were able to read the story from there. Apparently, though, I'm not very good at judging time because I gave them about 20 minutes to read the story and I guess they didn't finish. Ms. G said these students will typically need about 40 minutes to read that sort of thing, even if it seems like a short piece to me. I also finished with the activity early, probably because I didn't give them enough time to read, so they had 10 minutes at the end of class doing nothing. Needless to say I felt sort of like a failure after that class, although I know I was just being too hard on myself.
So hopefully tomorrow will go more smoothly. I am teaching 2nd and 3rd blocks because Ms. E will not be there. Busy day!
Always check things twice!
Katie
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