I think that I will be a good teacher. I definitely need more classroom practice though. I'm getting really attached to the kids and I think that it will be hard to leave in the end (even if I will be happy that stage will be over). It's been a stressful one, but I'm rising to the challenge. I've done a contract in one of the classes, and had the kids sign it all official like, one by one with a black pen. (about how we behave in class, cuz one day they were bad and I made them right how they should be acting in their journals, and then i took their responses and drew up the contract) It was pretty awesome. And now in my other class, I'm going to start weekly class meetings, with a rainstick for the person speaking and a secretary to take down the 'minutes' of the meeting :) haha I think it'll be awesome. I also put a question box up in the class where students can put question they have that may be a little off topic but that they would like to learn ...
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This was a busy week! I had stage, work, hot yoga, hip hop aerobics, teacher conference type thingy with a motivational speaker, and the Kings of Leon concert. I'm at work right now and I almost feel asleep sitting in this chair. It was a good week though. Next week my supervisor is coming to evaluate my teaching. Eeks, I'm nervous! I hope things will go well or at least as well as can be expecting. I am having some issues with my cooperating teacher and I found out today that she had a student before who had to be given a different ct. Funny that McGill still placed me there, but hey, that's McGill for you. I'm going to speak someone from the office of student teaching on Friday. The thing is, I love the school where I am. I really do. I want to do my stage there. And although my CT is late pretty much everyday (45 min. late this morning for the teacher conference), and is quite unorganized, I don't want to leave the school. :( I'm getting to do a lot, whether ...