Real World Teaching continues and luckily for me I still love my amazing group of classmates and co-workers. We are each other's teachers and biggest supporters and we even send around mushy group e-mails talking about how much we all love each other. Not so much like the Real World I guess...
I taught two ninety minute class periods last week (we're reading Romeo and Juliet) and it went really well and I'm dorkily THRILLED I get to do the Balcony Scene with them tomorrow.
Here's something that would only happen in NYC: I'm on the subway platform heading to my grad school classes and one of my students passes by me and says hi. She then asks if she can read me what she has so far of her essay. It was a great start, too!
I have had about... 20350124750240.02 interviews and have landed myself a job teaching high school. I will be teaching three periods of English and two of Social Studies for the first year and then after that a full English course load with the option to design my own English elective. I am excited to be settled. Now I can get back to dreaming up all of my big plans for my classroom.
What else? I got a call from my program advisor last week. She's young and ultra peppy and i won't be unkind on the blog, but the six hours we have with her a week feel like a lifetime. That said, she called to say she was worried about some of my written responses in what I thought was an anonymous survey and she was concerned about my behavior in class. That brings me back to camp in fourth grade when me and this other devil child teamed up to take control of Group Seminoles (every group was a native american tribe, of course). Ah well... old habits die hard... or something like that? if the shoe fits... Mollie! Fill in the expression!
And I swear I do things other than teaching or taking classes about teaching or talking about my classes or teaching experiences... I'm not really illustrating that point very well, but when I'm not passed out after lesson-planning and doing my homework then I actually have found time to see friends and family and it has been great! Kaitlin's was awesome last weekend, though we missed all of you who couldn't make it. So thanks to Kaitlin for being our phenomenal hostess!
Ok, time for me to go to bed. But I move into my apartment in August and know that any and all of you are welcome to visit any time!
Love and posting,
a
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5 comments:
were we on the phone when you were writing this? you totally weren't paying attention were you! =P
congrats!!!!
poo on whoever critiqued you for your behavior during class. seriously, what are you, five? I think not!
congratulations on getting a job...you are going to be (are) and amazing english teacher!
to the rest of the group: if I could get more than 45 minutes off per day then I would certainly post. Perhaps I will get a chance to post on my next day off...Anyway, in a nut shell--Wediko is crazy...I guess, in a good way. I mean, moods (for both staff and kids) change constantly, and so one minute I am having a great time and then the next I am like "what the freak? why am I here again?"
But today was a pretty fabulous day, my girls were so "on track" and working together, those are the moments in which you know all your hard work and labeling their behavior and telling them to put that rock down or you will have to hold their arm, or being spit on/bitten worth it.
gotten get back to the cabin!
lots of love!
wow, rach. i wish you had more time to post, too, because i'd love to hear about it. but to say that it sounds challenging seems like an understatement. but it is so amazing what you are doing there. i can't wait to hear all about it sometime in the future.
THAT SAID...
why do i get a bad feeling that my posts are somehow the conversation stoppers?
love you and miss you all!
--a
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