Taking the reins

Well starting Monday I will finally be teaching something! I will start with spelling and then work my way up to teaching all of the subjects. Next week spelling is mine! My supervising teaching is a crazy organizer though, so I will probably drive her crazy! She has her lesson plans finished up through the next unit!! It is probably just driving her bonkers that she doesn't have my lesson plans for next week yet. hehe. For the remainder of the week I will be working on finishing the individual reading assessments. The first few were much easier because as the students reading level progresses, the evaluation also gets progressively more difficult. However, to save time we have the students dictate and I scribe. Well I am getting tired of reading these little stories with no point and writing all of the students answers. I am a little over half way done.
Last night I experienced my first staff meeting. I am not sure if this is a practice that is district-wide or just within my school, but every month one of the grades is to prepare a presentation on a topic that is important to current education. I felt like I was back in freshman year speech class. The kindergarten teachers prepared a presentation on communication. I didn't learn much. I have a feeling that they will continue to be much of the same. Oh well. Then I got to be a part of setting the two main goals for this academic year for our school's impovement plan. That was pretty exciting. We will be working on who, what, where, why question and comparing and contrasting for reading. For math our focus will be telling time and creating and solving an equation for a story problem.

Tonight I am so excited to be getting together with my cohorts from my final education class. We spent nine hours a day together all last spring and now we have been separated since then. We shall have a beer and tell stories of our student teaching time thus far!