I'm exhausted!!
Not just because I taught today, but because I am doing everything I can possibly imagine right now! Hence, the lack of posts... I have been in the school about two days a week in October, but things got out of control.
This whole week I have been at North, and today was my first day leading the class. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. The moment before I was going to teach I wrote in my notebook, "I don't want to be a teacher anymore!" And I didn't even teach yet. I was just nervous... very nervous. I think the students responded to me fairly well. Some students are very unique in that class. Some things that I think I need to work on are being stricter, and checking for understand at each table, and making sure I have checked in with each student multiple times. I think tomorrow will go a bit better. It will be four minutes shorter because there is an assembly at the end of the day.
Tomorrow my supervisor from Willamette will meet to talk with me about my lessons next week. He will be observing me teach next Wednesday! It shall be fun. I think that whenever someone observes something has to go wrong...
Anyhoo, I better get back to work on my planning & online classes. Speaking about work... I started my tutoring job that I mentioned previously. This week I tutored at two different middle schools from Tuesday to today. It is fun to be with the students. I think I do prefer Middle School students over High School students. Good thing I will be at a middle school next semester!! :)
peace....
yay, i bet you are making a great teacher! love that you want to work with middle school students...not everyone does! i think it is definitely a calling :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Alyssa!! It was hard for me to teach when we were in HK, but I think I have learned a lot in the past couple of years!! :) And of course still more to LEARN! :)
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