Day 2
By the way, the plan is to blog through most of prac. so if this is dull for you, feel free to abstain from blog-reading for a fortnight!
Today was, yeah. about 2:15pm i hit exhaustion code red. sore legs, sore feet, hungry tummy, tired eyes, headache, sick of disciplining kids, etc etc etc.
I got on ok with tco-op teacher (hereafter Mr G), but we have such different views on some things, and the comments he wrote in my comment book were so podantic and critical. no "great lesson" accolades like last prac. i miss Mrs T. The school is really growing on me though, so cute and rural and "everyone knows everyone". except for the kids who are absolute nutters, and need some form of tranquiliser or something. There are 2 other prac teachers (one girl, one boy) with me (that right, 3 out of 4 classes have prac teachers!) The poor girl has 5/6 which is just terrible. She had to teach ALL DAY today with a class of deliquents, who have no respect for her or her authority as a teacher. i feel so sorry for her, but she's being relatively positive and deeming it "a learning experience for behaviour management". she deserves a medal. The boy is tall and lanky and wears short-sleeved shirts and is teaching K/1. he's a local, which is way too cool. and i am starting to wish that i lived not in a major city , not in suburbia and definitely not in a housing estate.
I taught half of morning session. taught half the class for all middle session and whole class for afternoon session. tomorrow Mr G is on RFF for an hour and a half. No such luck for the prac teacher. i get to teach under the supervision of a substitute. all afternoon. blech.
tutoring continues Mon-Wed and Fridays after prac, as well as Bible Study tonight and Recharge on Friday and regular Sunday stuff. I am pooped already!
Today was, yeah. about 2:15pm i hit exhaustion code red. sore legs, sore feet, hungry tummy, tired eyes, headache, sick of disciplining kids, etc etc etc.
I got on ok with tco-op teacher (hereafter Mr G), but we have such different views on some things, and the comments he wrote in my comment book were so podantic and critical. no "great lesson" accolades like last prac. i miss Mrs T. The school is really growing on me though, so cute and rural and "everyone knows everyone". except for the kids who are absolute nutters, and need some form of tranquiliser or something. There are 2 other prac teachers (one girl, one boy) with me (that right, 3 out of 4 classes have prac teachers!) The poor girl has 5/6 which is just terrible. She had to teach ALL DAY today with a class of deliquents, who have no respect for her or her authority as a teacher. i feel so sorry for her, but she's being relatively positive and deeming it "a learning experience for behaviour management". she deserves a medal. The boy is tall and lanky and wears short-sleeved shirts and is teaching K/1. he's a local, which is way too cool. and i am starting to wish that i lived not in a major city , not in suburbia and definitely not in a housing estate.
I taught half of morning session. taught half the class for all middle session and whole class for afternoon session. tomorrow Mr G is on RFF for an hour and a half. No such luck for the prac teacher. i get to teach under the supervision of a substitute. all afternoon. blech.
tutoring continues Mon-Wed and Fridays after prac, as well as Bible Study tonight and Recharge on Friday and regular Sunday stuff. I am pooped already!