Snowless Snow Day

So yesterday we had a "snow" day. It was really more of a "the roads are probably going to be slick let's just cancel school" day. I am completely not complaining. It was a nice relaxing day off that allowed me to catch up on laundry and other stuff around the house. Then today I woke up to a 2-hour delay. SWEET! I love to sleep in so the delay was excellent. On top of that the classes were only an hour which made the day fly by. It was decided today that I start taking over classes the middle of next week. I'll take over one for about a week and then I'll take over the other class. I'm super excited and nervous and that same time but I think I'll do fine.

I Thought They Taught Handwriting in School

I was grading papers today and putting them in the grade book and I had the hardest time trying to figure out whose name was on the paper. Common now its high school you would think the kids would know of the legibly write their names on their papers. Apparently, they like to sign their signatures on their papers so I can spend 5 minutes trying to figure out who to give the grade to.

1 Week Down

So Friday marked the end of my first week of student teaching. It was a short easy week which was nice. I don't see the other 14 weeks being as easy but I don't think they'll be that bad either. The two classes I'm teaching are pretty small 15-20 kids in each. My Friday was full of meeting the classes and grading papers. Yes on their first day of the new semester they had graded assignments to do. After meeting the classes I think this is going to be a really good experience.

It Only Gets Easier on Day 2

So I thought my first day was easy but day 2 was even easier. I had to be at a training session for the county at 10 am, yay being able to sleep in. When we told about our training we were told to go to the training then to our placements unless our cooperating teachers told us otherwise. Well, mine did. Due to the snow day they had on Friday, their last days of exams got moved to today so they were done with classes at 11:35. Well, when I got out of training I had a text from my cooperating teacher saying that I didn't need to drive out because the exams and grades were already done. So I was home hanging out on the couch by noon. I don't get why people think student teaching is so hard. Lol.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. It my first day all day at the school with the kids there. I'm super excited and a little nervous at the same time.

I Survived My First Day

Today was my first day of student teaching. I got lucky and had it really easy. It was a teacher workday. So first instead of being there at 7:15 I didn't have to be there till 8, sweet! Then there was breakfast when we got there, again sweet! Which brings us to the boring part of the day which was sitting through a technology lecture thing and an SOL/ No Child Left Behind lecture thing. As uninteresting as they were they were pretty informative. After our lectures we had about an hour and half before lunch time. So I got to do the typical intern job of photocopying, hole punching and stapling. I'm getting to be a pro at it.

Then my teacher and I sat down to talk about the plan for the semester which includes be teaching the two geometry class full time starting in about two weeks. I'm super excited! However, the two classes are quite different. One is a one semester geometry class. The other is the second part of geometry. Now for those of you who are confused about one semester geometry and the second part of geometry let me explain. At the school I'm at they do semester classes. So the students have 4 classes a semester for 90 minutes every day then take finals and their SOL's in January. Then switch to 4 new classes for the rest of the year. So the one semester class is really like having a class all year for those of us who are used to having 7 or 8 classes for the whole year. And the part two class is as if it were spread over 2 years. I like that the semester and kids are changing now because my first full day with the kids in the room is Friday and it is also the first day of the new semester, which makes the transit of me into the classroom so much easier because I'm there from day one.

After a little bit of planning, it was time for lunch. We went out to a mexican restuarant with some the other teachers, so I was able to get to know the other people I would be working with before the organized chaos of the new semester begins. That's all for now. I'll let you know how things go on day 2, its supposed to be an easy day again SWEET!