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School and School

Lauren

How I feelThe first week of the semester is over and my future responsibilities are staring me in the face. For those who aren’t keeping up, I begin my official student teaching practicum in about five weeks. I met with my mentor teacher last week and found that she wants the entire ten-week practicum planned out in advance, lesson plans and all, before I begin. This is, if you don’t know, an enormous task. What’s worse is that she handed me a stack of books and said something to the effect of, “These should get you started, but we don’t really use them.”

Hence the picture above.

The stress is already getting to me, so I’m ignoring it for the rest of the evening, made myself a five-herb quiche, some chocolate chip cookies with Ethan, and an beginning to start a new knitting project now that the last one is almost done.

I have begun blogging at my ed-blog again* — bookmark me and stop by if you want to read my school-related rants and harried bleggings for lesson plans and methodology. In a few days I will remove this link and make that blog pseudonymous to protect the innocent and not-so-innocent, so hurry!

* Link removed.

13 thoughts on School and School

  2. I absolutely cannot remember. I got it from another blog a few weeks ago. If anyone does know where it may have come from, let me know so I can give credit.

  3. Lauren … I’m speechless. You want to teach primary school ?

    WOW!

    I taught one heard of high school here at the NYC public system. I ended up teaching college for 7 years. What killed me was the bureaucracy. So what you’re experiencing is just the beginning.

    Just so you know, btw, there is another Miss Education called JJ Ross and one of the best known (and controversial) voices of the homeschooling movement. You can find her stuff at

    http://www.parentdirectededucation.org

  4. Not primary school, secondary Language Arts. Unfortunately I made this decision without thinking of the bureaucracy and now I want out.

    Alas, too late, hence the concentration on getting through and going to grad school.

  5. My English class this semester is looking at blogs and how they use rhetoric to do whatever it is they do, and as part of that class, each of us has to start and maintain a blog.

    I’m stealing that image for my blog.

  10. Lesson plans for ten weeks out? Shit, I’m lucky if I get lesson plans done for today.

    I was handed a great big gift in that my cooperating teacher said, “I’m taking that period off to drink coffee and read a little. Let me know if you need anything.” There was some crashing and burning, of course, but I was able to feel my way through plotting, re-evaluating, and re-plotting a semester of high school English.

    I assume, as well, that there are probably mandated curricula? Of course, I’d probably know that if I were reading that other blog of yours . . .

  11. Wow…your mentor teacher is piling it on. I’ve never heard of asking for the entire 10 weeks lesson plans in advance. But..on the other hand..I understand his/her reasoning. My 8th grade son had a student teacher in math last year. The student teacher completely f’d up teaching two of the sections..which had to be retaught by the mentor teacher. It was 4 weeks worth of extra work.

    I did my student teaching in Kindergarten. The first day we were walking down the hall to the library. While we were waiting for another class to cross the hall…one of the kids tugged at my sleeve. I looked down to see a pale little face, eyes swelling with tears.

    “Teacher,” she said. “I think I have to…BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

    She puked all over the hallway and across my brand new pair of leather boots.

    Once you get past the first day..it’s all uphill.

    🙂

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