Student teaching will NOT ruin your life! (It shouldn't, anyway.) You will probably have at least 1 day like the day I described most recently during your teaching career, but you should know that even the best and brightest teachers have challenging classes sometimes. Besides, you may not be unorganized like me. But to anyone who IS a little less of a type-A, color-coordinated-folder using, list-generating, anal-retentive person...work on being a little more like that. Get organized. Then you will have less to worry about when student teaching. Trust me on this one.
My conclusion on the struggles and difficulties of the past 2 weeks is ORGANIZATION and ADAPTATION. I will now be committing to making handwritten lists of everything until I can create a spreadsheet or some other tool to keep track of missing assignments. I will also be sending both Ms. S and Mrs. B lesson plans in advance. Feedback is a good thing.
This week the schedule is wacko macko because the end of first quarter is Friday. That's so insane. I can't believe I've come to the end of 9 weeks! Halfway through. Goodness. Sakes.
Now on to This Week At School!
9th grade: writing and turning in their Personal Narrative this week. The Personal Narrative is a page length essay, double spaced, about 500 words, about a 5-minute experience that is significant to them. I had a neat moment with one of my students who Just. Won't. Work. last week. By sitting down by his desk and helping him to think about things he enjoys and memories he recalls, we managed to get him to choose to write his narrative about the time he landed a very difficult skateboarding trick. I am looking forward to reading this one. If only kids like him could get some intrinsic motivation...instead of waiting for a teacher or a para to hover around him.
10th grade: finishing Julius Caesar. They will create illustrative projects for this play instead of taking a test. I am definitely looking forward to this!
Web 2.0 question: Would it be worth it to create wikis for my next 2 units, Romeo and Juliet and various short stories? I'm exploring this question and am not sure. If you have thoughts, let me have 'em PLEASE!
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