Welcome to Student Teaching

Student teaching is such a weird time. I'm busy all the time, comstantly at the school, and loving every second of it. I no longer have any time to check facebook (I only logged on twice last week) or post anything on my blog unless I have something awesome happen like it did today. Today started out great (2-hour delay) but I soon found out the 2-hr delays are a two edged sword because you may get to sleep in until 7:15 but you have to teach a 90 minute lesson in 35 minutes twice. I managed to somehow get through my lessons in first and second periods but I was exhausted. Then, I found out we had parent teacher conferences this afternoon so I had to run by my apartment during lunch to put on some makeup and make myself look presentable, only to sit at the school until 6:45 and only 1 parent showed up (at 3:45), but that gave me plenty of time to work out a kick ass lesson plan. I can't wait until I'm actually teaching and can just plan my lesson without having to search to find which state standard is addressed by each lesson and justify my goals, objectives, set, closure, and all of that other stuff. I understand the importance, but I feel like as long as you cover all of the standards and do it well you shouldn't have to go through a 3 hours process to prove it. Anyway, when I got home, Ayla came by on her way home from class, brought me a double doozy m&m cookie and cleaned my apartment for me. So on the whole, a good day. In fact, I can't really think of any day that's been bad on the whole since I started student teaching.