Wow, what a week! Despite my plan to only be picking up one class this week, I am now in the full swing of teaching both of our Spanish 1 classes! I took over 2nd period on Wednesday in preparation for my observation (which happened 4th period), but it went so well I decided that I would just keep on with 2nd period, since I was going to take them over next week anyway (and they were significantly less shocked about it than 4th period was). I'm glad because this means I will probably try to take 3rd period over (Spanish 4) sometime next week, so I'll finally have caught up with the rest of you teaching your full load :)
Here's our schedule in case I'm confusing you:
1st period - Planning
2nd period - Spanish I
3rd period - Spanish IV
4th period - Spanish I
Some highlights from this week:
- Caught some cheaters on a big assignment, which was followed by a very strange parent-teacher conference (in which the parent refused to believe that their child had cheated when the evidence was staring them in the face... people really amaze me sometimes)
- Had my first observation and it went awesome (I'm still reeling over how good they were... hopefully it's not my only good observation though, haha)
- Taught part of Spanish 4 on Thursday
- Intro'd vocab today and found out how exhausting that can be
So, little by little I am gaining a lot more confidence as a teacher. We'll see how well that translates once I'm teaching lessons that are completely my own!
Hola,
ReplyDeleteI know you are going to do an awesome job.. actually, your are already doing it. Let me tell you that last week was my first week of having all my classes in my own. In other words, I taught my first full loaded week! It went ok, although I have to reflect about it a lot:)
Best wishes
Vane
Thanks Vanessa! Reflection is always a must. I know you will continue to be successful :)
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