Today was my first day at the high school I am student teaching at. It was a little crazy because the science classrooms were remodeled over the summer and they are not quite done yet so it was full of construction people and supplies along with the teachers rushing to get their classrooms ready for students in only 3 days!
I arrived at 8:30 and finally met my mentor teacher. There was a mid-summer mix-up as my previous mentor teaching took a non-teaching position which left me find a new one! I know this sounds very girly or something, but I was really worried about what to wear. I settled on black shoes, gray pants, and a pink polo. I felt comfortable, but was very over-dressed for what I did this morning! I knew that I would be moving stuff around and unpacking boxes but wanted to make a strong first impression.
My mentor teacher had her young son with her and he was so cute! His first day of kindergarten is tomorrow. He was very talkative and helped me do most of the things I did today such as shuttling microscopes, or "scopes" as he called them, from down the hall into the classroom and onto the shelves. He even tried to help with moving chairs from down the hall; they were nearly as big as him! Interacting with young children reminds me of how much I want to have my own some day and how much fun it will be!
I was very impressed with my mentor when she gave me two boxes to unpack that were full on 3-ring binders. Each binder was labeled by topic such as "the cell", "bacteria", "fungi". This puts me at ease to see signs that she is an organized teacher. I am an organized person and it would drive me crazy if my mentor was disorganized.
I was only at the school for about two hours, which was disappointing. It was so short because she had to take her son to his pre-first day of kindergarten event at 11:00... But she did say, "Tomorrow will be very productive, full day!"
We didn't get to talk about actual curriculum, schedules, or anything like that, so hopefully we will get to some of that tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the first faculty/staff meeting at 8:00. She is going to be late because she has to drop off her son at his first day of school, so I have to go in by myself! Eek! I should be fine though because I did at least meet some of the other science teachers today.
That was my first day, in a large nutshell! Not too bad if I might say so myself! :)
I arrived at 8:30 and finally met my mentor teacher. There was a mid-summer mix-up as my previous mentor teaching took a non-teaching position which left me find a new one! I know this sounds very girly or something, but I was really worried about what to wear. I settled on black shoes, gray pants, and a pink polo. I felt comfortable, but was very over-dressed for what I did this morning! I knew that I would be moving stuff around and unpacking boxes but wanted to make a strong first impression.
My mentor teacher had her young son with her and he was so cute! His first day of kindergarten is tomorrow. He was very talkative and helped me do most of the things I did today such as shuttling microscopes, or "scopes" as he called them, from down the hall into the classroom and onto the shelves. He even tried to help with moving chairs from down the hall; they were nearly as big as him! Interacting with young children reminds me of how much I want to have my own some day and how much fun it will be!
I was very impressed with my mentor when she gave me two boxes to unpack that were full on 3-ring binders. Each binder was labeled by topic such as "the cell", "bacteria", "fungi". This puts me at ease to see signs that she is an organized teacher. I am an organized person and it would drive me crazy if my mentor was disorganized.
I was only at the school for about two hours, which was disappointing. It was so short because she had to take her son to his pre-first day of kindergarten event at 11:00... But she did say, "Tomorrow will be very productive, full day!"
We didn't get to talk about actual curriculum, schedules, or anything like that, so hopefully we will get to some of that tomorrow. Tomorrow is also the first faculty/staff meeting at 8:00. She is going to be late because she has to drop off her son at his first day of school, so I have to go in by myself! Eek! I should be fine though because I did at least meet some of the other science teachers today.
That was my first day, in a large nutshell! Not too bad if I might say so myself! :)
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