Operation Observation Complete

(For the safety of my students and teacher mentor, they will be referred to by letters!!!!)

Alright, so I have yet to start teaching, but the past two days I have been in school, watching Mr. S. do his thang and interacting with the students! So fun, they have been really anticipating my arrival as I am someone new and someone to test the waters with. 


I have only been asked twice if I am a student, most hoped I was a sub teacher and did not know about their test! Today one student eating lunch in the hall asked if I was a teacher or a student and I said "student teacher" she said "whoah you are short, how tall are you?" I replied, she whispered something to her friends, hopped down and stood beside me and was a little disappointed that she was in fact shorter than me!!! A feat for me as well though!


My little grade 8's are SO adorable. And I am taller than most of them. 22 students, and only 4 girls. This is not a bad thing, all the boys are keeners and super cute. I am not to worried about that class. However, my grade 9's there are 27 students and they are little chatty Cathy's!!! Non productive noise people. But I already asserted my authority with them.


After I was introduced yesterday and was wondering around helping students with their work, some asked if I was going to change the rules...especially the no chewing gum rule. In Mr. S class if you chew gum, you have to scrap all the gum from underneath the desks. Yuk. J. had to do that yesterday and it was highly amusing.


My first thought yesterday was "OMG I can't teach, I can't do this, what was I thinking, all that money will go to waste." But then as the day wore on and I was prepping I felt a little better...that is until I met my University marker. She is a tough lady, she means business.  Well I think she just wants to produce excellent teachers. I was REALLY nervous yesterday afternoon, but then leave it to hubby to put it all into perspective. I can teach, and since my Uni marker is such a wealth of experience and knowledge, I should use that to my advantage! Pray that I will be able to take constructive criticism well.


I officially start teaching this Tuesday (20th).  I will teach twice a week until the first week of May, then I will teach 4 days a week. I am a little nervous for the next two weeks because each day I actually teach I will be marked, first by Mr. S. and then by the Uni marker, so I never really get to do it on my own, establish and show myself that I can do it. All well...it shall be interesting.


In other news I have just been praying hard, reading through 1 Samuel and hanging out with my family! I am totally missing my Joshua though...love him!!!


Bye for now friends!