Highlight of the Day: 9/21/2011

Me and another para are trying to teach a reading lesson to a class of students and it is not going well, because of all the misbehavior and distractions that are going on.  Oh, did I mention this was a class of 2 students.

I ended up taking one student, and he ended up taking another.  That seemed to work quite well.

Highlight of the Day: 9/14/2011

I had the opportunity to lead classroom instruction today.  OK, so I was only working with two students (one of the students was in ISS).  Still, I am happy that my supervising teacher is giving me this opportunity.  We read a story on internet sources and to be skeptical of the different between true news websites and opinionated websites like blogs and Wikipedia.

For the record, while I give a lot of my own opinions on this blog, I try to make sure all the information I post on are true.  If I ever do get anything wrong, I promise to post a correction as soon as possible.

Highlight of the Day: 9/13/2011

Today went really well with the kids.  So far, the kids seem to enjoy my company, or at least tolerate me being there.  I talked with my supervising teacher about my long terms.  I told her that my goal for next year is to be hired as a teacher and to have my own classroom again, which she completely understood, and said she would try to support me in that goal in anyway she can.  And even though the teacher-to-student ratio in this program is small, she is still in need of drastic support in some of the class periods.  Too many students bunched together into a classroom who really shouldn't be with each other.  Because I have classroom experience, she has informed me that starting tomorrow, she would start giving me some classroom instruction responsibilities with parts of the class.  I'm a little nervous, but mostly excited.  I'm starting to feel like a true teacher again (I just wished I was being paid like one).