First Full Day

My foot hurts, but I think I strained my arch from running this weekend.   It made me walk a lil funny around the classroom during the afternoon . Though today was different in another way.  Right at the beginning of the morning bell to the end of my seventh period, I was in charge, teaching.  For the first time I had all five periods to teach, each with a set plan.  Some worked better than others.  The bad news is that I feel fine.  The good news is that it gets better!  I even had a few of my own announcements.  One started with a story, telling them where I lived (Palos Heights) and that one Saturday I rode my bike from my house all the way to Uptown which is a mile north of Wrigley Field.  On the way I took a professional teacher's exam here at Bogan.  The announcement was that this weekend I found out I passed that exam so as long as student teaching runs smoothly for me, I should be able to teach anywhere I want in January and actually get paid.  This brought a lot of attention to the students to make them realize that I dont get paid.  The sympathy moment lasted only as long as it took for them to realize it, which im not surprised.   A substitute could have walked in and he could get paid to sit there while I taught the class.  Funny how the system works.

I have been grading a lot, I like it.  Be sure not to overwhelm yourself because it could happen.  I would be able to give everything back tomorrow if only I was able to get on the grading system at home would then all my work be finished and cut out for the next couple of days.  Oh Well.  I will catch up.  As of now its just punching numbers into a computer.

   The inquiry based teaching is not cutting out as well as I hoped,  Luckily I am in my beginning naive style of teaching, so it gets better!  It's not that I am getting to them, but it is a little harder for them being underdeveloped to comprehend full inquiry-based physics, so in the end I give a little more information than I should when they ask a question.  By a little more information, it's almost the answer.  There is just not enough time for them to get through all of it when I demonstrate concepts that way.  Hopefully this is only going on with the regular students and not my IB (International Baccalaureate).  They have to receive a more open-ended type of education.