Today was my first day of teaching! I up late last night finishing up three additional lesson plans but I was able to make it into bed around 12:45. I didn’t really have time to practice my lesson plan on context clues because I decided it was more important for me to get some sleep. I went to bed pretty calm and confident. You wouldn’t believe how many melt downs I witnessed last night…I know shocker I have haven’t had one…yet…but anyways I woke up this morning and jumped in the shower to wake myself up and realized that I had printed out all my worksheets and copies of my lesson plan to turn in but had forgotten to make copies for me to use while I taught my lesson! Stupid…(in an Uncle Headley voice J) so I got ready super fast and had to make it to the printing room before picking up my lunch, breakfast, and making it to my school bus on time. Let just say I was starting to get a little nervous. I made it in time and on the bus I got a little pep talk from Dad about how to start my class off and I think I implemented it well. For the first day I wore black dress pants, wedges, a pink shirt and black cardigan.
Surprisingly enough I got in the classroom and felt very confident and in control. My voice wasn’t shaky and I was actually ready to teach my lesson. It was a good feeling. I teach early in the morning so my students were a little groggy and I did have to deal with some behavioral problems such as Thomas constantly falling asleep and me have to say “Thomas please wake and have your eyes on me” I think I said I need all eyes on me about ten times. My most challenging student is going to be Edwin or should I say “class clown” he is a cute little black kid but he just talks without raising his hands, makes inappropriate comments. I have decided to make him my Paper Manager so that he had an “important” job and is able to get out of his seat during class to shake off some of that energy. I have gotten better at writing on the board and learned a lot about what I need to do to get to know my kids and try and keep their attention. After I was done teaching I attended a classroom management session for about an hour and half and then after school was out we had more sessions/seminars until 4:30. We have to accumulate something around 500 hours these five weeks so we are constantly lesson planning, going to sessions, and listening to some boring meetings.
Over all today was good I feel like I did a good job and I’m excited to learn and implement some more techniques. They gave us little diplomas before we got on the bus for making it through our first day of teaching so now I just have to keep trucking through all theses assignments and try to stay positive! I got “home” to Rice University at 5:30 and then had to go to a mandatory study session from 6:00-8:00 and then I have a meeting from 8:00-whenever we are done with all the other 8th grade teachers at my school to finish up our management plan and investment plan. I really hope it doesn’t take long but you never know. So that was my day!
Here is the note my Leader left me after observing some of my class “Molly, Good job waking students through reading strategies during your lesson! Nice teacher voice! Maybe write your strategies or notes on chart paper before hand to save time.”
-Eric
Love yall,
Ms. Silverstein :)
-Oh I will try to take pictures of my classroom when it looks a little better but we aren’t allowed to take pictures of our kids :(
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