Teaching and the difference between men and boys.
*disclaimer* don't read this to find the true difference between men and boys. I just had a simple realization about people in general today.
David gets on my nerves just a bit. He seems just a tiny bit like a braggart. I don't know if this is just my perception, if he's nervous, or if he's really like that. He was talking about an LED keyboard where you can program each key to correlate to whatever letter or number you want - and dammit, he'd thought of that years ago. Or he just talks about his accomplishments more than may be totally tastefull. In a way that sounds like he's boasting to me. Maybe it's from being around Travis so long who's so humble he'd never make a big deal over the stuff David seems so proud of. (mostly because to him, that stuff is just mundane, "whatever" type stuff.) I'm trying really hard not to compare, but they're similar in a lot of ways. I like David though and I'm giving him a chance. We'll see what happens.
On a much brighter note, I taught on Friday! I thought it'd just be a half day, but it ended up being the whole day - and no lunch! whoo hoo! I started in a 2nd grade classroom, which was tiring because they don't know how to sit still. Or talk quietly. I don't know if it was that the teacher's expectations were different than mine or what, but they were just really squirrley. I enjoyed it though, the kids were really sweet for the most part. Then, right before I was supposed to be done, the office called me and asked me if I could stay in a 5th grade classroom for the afternoon. Which, of course I said yes! That was much easier, since they at least paid attention and sat still and stayed mostly on task. It was like coming home though, I forgot how much I loved being in front of the classroom.
Oh but by the end of the day I was SO tired! And hungry! And I still had to go and close the office at the shop!! I was dead on my feet by the time my day was over!! So Trav and I went to Applebee's to celebrate and got to make fun of the high school cheerleaders and kids from the football game. (oh, they were so tragic.)
I think this will be a very good experience for me though. I'll get the classroom management down like nobody's business - the area of weakness I had while student teaching. This will be constant trial by fire. And I'll get to tweak things that don't work very well on a fresh batch of kids, so each trial will be pure! I already have things I know I'm going to do differently next time! (namely: making sure the students know my expectations, regardless of what their teacher's expectations may be.)
David gets on my nerves just a bit. He seems just a tiny bit like a braggart. I don't know if this is just my perception, if he's nervous, or if he's really like that. He was talking about an LED keyboard where you can program each key to correlate to whatever letter or number you want - and dammit, he'd thought of that years ago. Or he just talks about his accomplishments more than may be totally tastefull. In a way that sounds like he's boasting to me. Maybe it's from being around Travis so long who's so humble he'd never make a big deal over the stuff David seems so proud of. (mostly because to him, that stuff is just mundane, "whatever" type stuff.) I'm trying really hard not to compare, but they're similar in a lot of ways. I like David though and I'm giving him a chance. We'll see what happens.
On a much brighter note, I taught on Friday! I thought it'd just be a half day, but it ended up being the whole day - and no lunch! whoo hoo! I started in a 2nd grade classroom, which was tiring because they don't know how to sit still. Or talk quietly. I don't know if it was that the teacher's expectations were different than mine or what, but they were just really squirrley. I enjoyed it though, the kids were really sweet for the most part. Then, right before I was supposed to be done, the office called me and asked me if I could stay in a 5th grade classroom for the afternoon. Which, of course I said yes! That was much easier, since they at least paid attention and sat still and stayed mostly on task. It was like coming home though, I forgot how much I loved being in front of the classroom.
Oh but by the end of the day I was SO tired! And hungry! And I still had to go and close the office at the shop!! I was dead on my feet by the time my day was over!! So Trav and I went to Applebee's to celebrate and got to make fun of the high school cheerleaders and kids from the football game. (oh, they were so tragic.)
I think this will be a very good experience for me though. I'll get the classroom management down like nobody's business - the area of weakness I had while student teaching. This will be constant trial by fire. And I'll get to tweak things that don't work very well on a fresh batch of kids, so each trial will be pure! I already have things I know I'm going to do differently next time! (namely: making sure the students know my expectations, regardless of what their teacher's expectations may be.)