I guess I’ve been in a super awesome mood since Wednesday, when I did my presentation at “Best Sessions” at MDHS. Thursday rained like no other, and Friday was just SUPER. Mrs. Campbell, my University Supervisor, came to do observation #2 on me during 2nd period and just like I feared, they were TERRIBLE. I mean, the behavioral issues were intense. But I’m glad that she got to see them like that and see how I handled them. Here’s how 2nd period went:
They read for 10-ish minutes, they responded to the GTL quote while listening to light music (read:”Friday” by Rebecca Black), they got into their vocabulary groups and worked for 10 minutes and presentations took about 5. During vocab presentations, a student dropped an f-bomb RIGHT in front of Mrs. Campbell- I about died. Then, they stretched and put their chairs and dictionaries back. I passed out an index card and asked them to write down, in 5 words or less, one of their dreams—then I had to clarify that I wanted a goal type of dream, not a nighttime creepy dream. We shared those and talked about what would happen if their dreams were crushed. I passed their packets back out and we went through the 22-page packet I made them to go along with the play A Raisin in the Sun as I told them exactly what each page in the packet is. Then, I asked them to fill in the concept map about dreams. We shared those and moved on to assigning reading roles. I had 2 kids jumping out of their seats to be able to read the main roles J I read the introduction to them and gave them the last 90 seconds or so to themselves. The whole class period, I had kids touching each other, talking, up walking around, texting, eating, for real trying EVERYTHING they could to ruin my pristine lesson/observation. But they didn’t win and I corrected the behavior each time—Mrs. Campbell even made a note of it, saying I did an awesome job.
After the observation, I had planning so Mrs. Campbell and I got a chance to talk. She gave me some really amazing compliments, including that she thinks I’ll be Teacher of the Year in the next 5 years; I legitimately almost died right there. After she left, I was on cloud 9. I went and ate lunch with the B lunch teachers in the Hurricane Café and had an AMAZING salad made by a girl in my 2nd period. Mr. Archer and I decided that we were going to take our 4th period outside to read. We did a FCAT practice, then I gave them 2 sticky tabs and told them to mark the start page and the stop page. Once I saw that they all followed directions, we lined up at the door. Once we got downstairs, I told them the area they couldn’t leave (or they would get a referral and I wasn't close to joking) and they were able to lay in the sun or shade and read the novel silently or with their friends. It went WAY better than I thought it would.
I have been having SUCH a good time teaching during my internship, and I’m REALLY sad that it’s almost over. However, I’m really excited to get my own classroom. My kids mean so much to me and I really spend my entire weekend thinking about them and how I can make the classroom fun, while still providing them with the knowledge they need to succeed. Please hear my heart when I say that this isn’t just a career for me; I am so in love with this profession and I couldn’t be happier with the choices I’ve made to get here.
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