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August 14, 2007
Teaching - Day Three
Today has been amazing! I had my first meeting with my KTIP resource teacher this morning. I realized that it will not be as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I saw a student who’s mother I am very good friends with. While walking through the gymnasium (from my meeting to my classroom) I hear “LUCAS!!!” coming from above. I thought I was being called to a better place – but it turned out to by my friend.
Day Three
Today has been amazing! I had my first meeting with my KTIP resource teacher this morning. I realized that it will not be as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I saw a student who’s mother I am very good friends with. While walking through the gymnasium (from my meeting to my classroom) I hear “LUCAS!!!” coming from above. I thought I was being called to a better place – but it turned out to by my friend. I politely told her that she needs to call me Mr. Gravitt while at school – it was a little awkward. She followed me back to my classroom to tell me of her mother’s recent adventures (the student’s brother, my friends son, died is a bad car wreck a little over a year ago). She mentioned that people have already been talking about my classes and want to add me as their teacher. Unfortunately I have no space in any class!
The Arts & Humanities class went so much better – I think I am starting to like these kids. I planned a rather fun activity – they enjoyed it – all is well.
With my German III/AP class, I am still trying to figure out what they have been taught. I gave them a rather large pre-test to assess their prior knowledge. After the long summer, it seems to finally come back to them. I plan to delve into fine grammatical points that they did not understand on the pre-test. Once I catch them up to speed, we will be able to follow a more rigid regular curriculum.
I truly love my German One “babies”. They just make my day. I am incredibly thrilled that they are my last period class. They finally cut my numbers down :’( to around 30. This is much more manageable. I still see students in the hall that say, “Herr Gravitt – I’m going to try to take German again next year!” This means the world to me.
At this point, I feel that I am getting used to being a teacher. The majority of problems I am having are behavioral. I do not know if this is because of my age or because of my lack of experience. I have finally gotten together a system for marking participation, mark off if they sleep, or throw things across the room. I thank Wes for his help with the development of this system.
Posted by Lucas at August 14, 2007 11:28 AM