Week 7:Day 1

Today was the student teaching seminar.  It seemed to have been placed on a really weird day.  It was the Monday of MEA week, so we had the seminar Monday, and then had Thursday and Friday off (some of us even had Wednesday, or half of Wednesday for inservice).  Even Miss M had said something about how it would have been nice if it were on Wednesday so that she could finish lessons that I was working on, rather than doing things halfway through the lesson, or starting new ones out.

Things were brought up such as lesson planning and how much of a tedious job it is.  It was discussed in our mini-groups that some mentor teachers don't even want to see the lesson plans, and that all of us talk and discuss our lessons with our mentor teachers before we even do anything.  It doesn't make sense as to why we have to do all this work, but it does.  It gives us the opportunity to think our lessons through, but it is tedious work that makes student teachers (in our minigroups anways) feel as though all we are doing is concentrating on lesson plans, and possibly not even giving full attention to making lessons better, and getting things to be more worth while, and exciting.  Its a hard thing to do, but sometimes it is necessary.

Other than that, the best part, and really the only part that was worth while (talking in mini-groups was nice, and we could share common stories) was talking and hearing from the principals.  It helped a lot and gave a lot of information that I have already heard from my University supervisor, and other teachers around, but it came straight from the mouths of the principals, who would be doing the actual interviews.

Long awaiting the much needed break
Miss A