Sorry this post is a day late, however the excitement of school closings took over my house last night! I found out that West Side was closed around 9pm and just after 10pm we all received text messages and e-mails from Calvin announcing that they would be canceled. You would have thought that someone won 1 million dollars because of the loud joyous shouts that came from my housemates and friends. Needless to say we had a sleep over in the living room complete with our mattresses and a movie! Sleeping in was wonderful too! We woke up to about 14 inches of snow, despite the dreams/nightmares by a few of the girls that nothing had happened overnight!
As for my day yesterday it was good, a little different than normal. As soon as school started all the 8th graders, the 2 homeroom teachers, and myself got on a bus and headed to a another Christian middle school. While their the students took a standardized test similar to an ACT. It will take the place of other tests that West Side 8th graders usually take. The big difference is that this test includes some interest and career type questions and feedback. Overall I think that the students liked the new test and the chance to not have normal classes for the morning. We returned around lunch time and just had 2 classes left for the day.
I feel like I am getting a feel for the way things go at West Side and am starting to learn names. However, I have not seen much teaching yet. Of the 7 class periods I have seen (due to the testing yesterday) 3 have taken Math tests, 1 math quiz, and 1 project worked on in the computer lab. That leaves just 2 classes I have seen taught, one of which was a review day. With that said I don't feel like I have a grasp of my teachers classroom management styles or teaching styles. It will come with time, but I suppose it will have to wait until tomorrow as today is a day off. As much as I love having a snow day, hopefully tomorrow I will be able to see a full day of teaching!
For now I am going to try to get some stuff done. Lots of homework even during student teaching!
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