Today was the second day of my last semester of college. Yesterday I had a 4 hour long seminar about my responsibilities and assignments for student teaching this semester. It was very interesting, informative, and of course overwhelming, but how I kept calm was reminding myself that my first day at Jefferson Jr. High I'd only be observing.
And observe I did.
For the first block of the semester (from now until mid-October) I will be at my assigned Junior High school teaching FACS exploration and CTE intro Business. The school is on a block schedule and fortunately I will only teach FACS on A days for three periods, and on B days I will teach CTE for three periods. I will be team teaching with my mentor teacher for the first two days next week then I will begin teaching by myself for the FACS class. A couple weeks after that I will pick up the remaining CTE classes and will be a full-time teacher.
I've been putting together my Scope and Sequence for the first block today, and I will begin writing lesson plans tomorrow. With the convenient schedule of only teaching on A days for the next couple weeks, I can spend B days writing lesson plans so I have less work to do at home.
Oh, by the way, if you didn't know, teachers always bring their work home.
In addition to writing lesson plans I also have to work on my Teacher Work Sample which will evaluate my knowledge and abilities to assess classroom situations, management, and discipline based on the contextual factors that will be implemented into my teaching. Fortunately, one section is due each week- just the rough draft- to be evaluated, therefore giving me time to tweak and revise my work sample before I have to turn it in officially in November.
A lot of work will go into this semester, but I believe I can do it. Maybe this is just me speaking out of fatigue from a semi-uneventful 8 hour observation day, but really, I just gotta remember to take each day one at a time so as not to get overwhelmed and give up-- because I sometimes want to do that.
Peace and Blessin's.
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