My classes

I’ve taken over two classes since the start of student teaching and more will be coming. The first is a beginners Middle School class that I started teaching one week into the semester. I worked with the same kids during practicum, so at least I am comfortable with them. The class meets every day for 50 minutes and thus far, I have pretty much stuck to the classroom teacher’s curriculum while using my own lesson plans. In other words, I look at what she intends to teach and decide how I would teach it. Of course, I bounce ideas off of her in the process of developing the lessons. So far, we have been working on a unit about clothing. We started by reviewing colors, then moving on to different articles of clothing. Then they learned about adjective agreement as they learned to describe the color of their classmates’ clothes. I administered my first test this week, but that is definitely worthy of its own blog entry. The other class is an intermediate High School class that I just started teaching this week. The High School at ISD follows a block schedule, so I have this class every other day for an hour and a half. This week, we are working on a unit about Cyrano de Bergerac. Fortunately, the lessons for the unit have already been created and are pretty cut and dry. But I am planning on supplementing the unit with some historical information. Teaching in French has Next week, I will be acquiring a High School beginner’s class that meets on the days I don’t teach the intermediate class. I’ve been observing these kids for a while and frankly, I’m terrified of teaching them.