Week Three - Student Teaching

This week and last week have been awesome. I didn't update last week because of the house, I was too excited and then quickly distracted by life to post anything. Nothing to out of the ordinary has happened at school. I've fallen into a comfortable routine of classes and what's expected of me. I taught two lessons this past week, it was a lot of fun but I felt awkward. I'm sure that's because I didn't plan the lesson myself from conception to practice. My cooperative teacher thinks I did just fine. My supervisor dropped into see me once last week and once this week. The first time I was expecting her, the second she just appeared out of nowhere. She's a sweet lady, but she likes to talk. I did, however, make clear that I felt the "training" we interupted our Wednesday with was useless.

I received an email last week about going back to ASU for "Taskstream training". That's silly, I thought, We were trained during Orientation. Why do we need more? Surely there isn't something more important than being in the classroom and making lesson plans?

You see, this "training" took place during my planning period AND my lunch time (1230 to 130). Oh buddy that ruffled my feathers. Why have the students that are out of district TRAVEL for training in the middle of the day? I grudgingly attended because it was required. I was more than astonished that my English buddy, who is doing her Student Teaching in Midland, appeared. She had a 3 hour round trip for 15 minutes of wasted time. They taught us nothing we didn't already know, just repeated the same thing they told us the first week of school during Orientation.

The rest of the week was uneventful. The students have a project due Tuesday and Wednesday (they are on block at Wall). So I get to see who has been bald-face lying to me and my cooperative teacher about getting their work done. I'm sure I'll update about it next week.