But yea! I'm sorry you guys if you're reading this!
Anywho, met with the principal. He seems super chill :) We were asking all sorts of questions and getting our feet wet. We were asking around about the extracurricular activities that are going on in the schools. I was interested in the Reading club, the Lit Lovers as they're called, but apparently they're going through withdrawals. It looks like they're having a rough time because they can't quite procure enough books to have everyone read the same books :/ Bummer. The other club I was interested in doing was the German club. It wouldn't hurt to continue brushing up on my German in more ways than 1. I've got this app on my phone called DuoLingo that is a lot like Rosetta stone with showing pictures, having you practice speaking, and writing it out. It's really neat. I just haven't had the time to look at it more. Actually, scratch that. I have had the chance I just didn't want to :P I've been engrossed in this book series called Codex Alera. My siblings know what I'm talking about ;)
Hail, Gaius Octavian, Princeps of Alera!
But yea, so we got shown around the school a bit. Weird layout....that's gonna take some getting use to. Took a picture with this neat looking whale that was painted on the side of a wall for I-have-no-reason-why but it looked awesome!
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That's Isaac Fields over there on the left :P and dats me posing with the whale cuz it's that awesome! And we got to meet our cooperating teachers :) It was kinda funny because I was talking to someone else in our group, probably Isaac, and then someone said that we were at Mrs. Marks class and I was like, "OH! That's mine!" And so I literally skipped over to the door quickly and very enthusiastically shook her hand :) It was fun. I think I made a good impression. I was there during her seminar class, which works a lot like a study hall, except that it's 90 minutes long. Yikes!
They have a set up similar to a block scheduling over at the high school. They have Blue days and they have Red days. It's not like college where you have classes Mon/Wed/Fri and Tue/Thurs. It's literally every other day. So it's just back and forth. I'll get use to it. But she's got 9th graders for 3 periods, a planning/reading lab, and 10th graders for a period. I told her what is expected out of me for my student teaching. Observing and participating for the first couple weeks. co-teaching for a couple weeks. Then doing my own teaching, with basically my LAMP unit, which is what a bulk of my ST is graded on I've been told. And then yea petering off at the end and giving her back her classroom towards the end in April.
What we discussed is me co-teaching with her in all of her classes. We'll work all that out as we go. And my actually LAMP unit that I have to do is going to be done in her Freshman classes. And it's going to be over Shakespeare. Of course :P But I haven't had the chance to teach Shakespeare yet so it should be interesting. It's so weird to think about though because I've read Shakespeare's work soooo many times and it just feels weird when I think about the fact that for these kids it'll probably be the first time that they've read his work. We're going to read Romeo and Juliet, of course, dabble with Julias Caesar, and then read Othello. I'd love it if we could read a comedy like Much Ado About Nothing rather than a history but whatever.
I don't have a desk yet......hopefully gonna get that tomorrow.....
But things are looking good :) It was super stressful getting processed and getting into the school, but it looks like it's definitely going to be worth it.
My co-teacher is young, funny, chill, and flexible. I think we're gonna hit it off great :)
P.S. Isaac introduced me to the art teacher, who focuses on ceramics! and that was a funny introduction. He was telling me that she was the art teacher when I was shaking her hand and then he went on to say that she taught ceramics. So my one-hand-affirmative-grasp turned into a two-handed-eyes-locking-enthusiastic handshake :P I think I spooked her a bit with my sudden excitement, but at least she knows where my interests lie :) And she said that I could come down to her classroom anytime and hang out with her and her kids. I could teach her a few things, she could teach me a few things. It'll be great! I'm gonna broach that with my co-teacher tomorrow during our planning period so she's on the up-and-up. I'm like incredibly certain that she'll be fine with it :)
Yay! :)
They have a set up similar to a block scheduling over at the high school. They have Blue days and they have Red days. It's not like college where you have classes Mon/Wed/Fri and Tue/Thurs. It's literally every other day. So it's just back and forth. I'll get use to it. But she's got 9th graders for 3 periods, a planning/reading lab, and 10th graders for a period. I told her what is expected out of me for my student teaching. Observing and participating for the first couple weeks. co-teaching for a couple weeks. Then doing my own teaching, with basically my LAMP unit, which is what a bulk of my ST is graded on I've been told. And then yea petering off at the end and giving her back her classroom towards the end in April.
What we discussed is me co-teaching with her in all of her classes. We'll work all that out as we go. And my actually LAMP unit that I have to do is going to be done in her Freshman classes. And it's going to be over Shakespeare. Of course :P But I haven't had the chance to teach Shakespeare yet so it should be interesting. It's so weird to think about though because I've read Shakespeare's work soooo many times and it just feels weird when I think about the fact that for these kids it'll probably be the first time that they've read his work. We're going to read Romeo and Juliet, of course, dabble with Julias Caesar, and then read Othello. I'd love it if we could read a comedy like Much Ado About Nothing rather than a history but whatever.
I don't have a desk yet......hopefully gonna get that tomorrow.....
But things are looking good :) It was super stressful getting processed and getting into the school, but it looks like it's definitely going to be worth it.
My co-teacher is young, funny, chill, and flexible. I think we're gonna hit it off great :)
P.S. Isaac introduced me to the art teacher, who focuses on ceramics! and that was a funny introduction. He was telling me that she was the art teacher when I was shaking her hand and then he went on to say that she taught ceramics. So my one-hand-affirmative-grasp turned into a two-handed-eyes-locking-enthusiastic handshake :P I think I spooked her a bit with my sudden excitement, but at least she knows where my interests lie :) And she said that I could come down to her classroom anytime and hang out with her and her kids. I could teach her a few things, she could teach me a few things. It'll be great! I'm gonna broach that with my co-teacher tomorrow during our planning period so she's on the up-and-up. I'm like incredibly certain that she'll be fine with it :)
Yay! :)
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