One of the Suckiest Days!
I think it started from lastnight. Every step I took closer to home I grew weaker and weaker. By the time I reached home all I did was lay down on the bed and fall asleep. I woke up a bit later to find that I had a 37.8 C/100 F temperature. I took some medicine, only God knows the name of what it was and within about an hour I felt like a new person. I did manage to stay up long enough to go to teacherease and update my attendance. After that I went right back to bed. When I woke up this morning I had no idea what I was going to be teaching but I decided that I would just wing it....wrong move. I am teaching New Parade I (this is my first term teaching it and I have never taught this series before other than subbing). This book has tapes and I have yet to buy a CD/tape player. I believe I was wearing my outfit that normally would scream, "It's the day before laundry day!!!" but in this country no one notices the difference. Anyway, when I entered the room I was thinking to myself, "Who the hell is this person in my class?, You are in the wrong room...the advanced classes aren't in here!"...then I realized who she might be...."Oh Craaaaaap, Evaluator!!!!!!!!!!!! (panic)....Wonderful -_- On a day that I lost my lesson plans so I have no idea where I left off (had I looked over my lesson plans the night before I would have known that I had lost them) and where I needed to start up the next lesson.
I thought seriously that the one hour and fifteen minute lesson would never ever ever come to an end. The funny thing is that I had recently lost or had my cell phone stolen so not having any concept of time usually makes the class fly by, not this time. I think I managed to remember something about the last class which was about five days ago so I started off by writing one word on the board and made an attempt to cue the class that I needed them to remember some of the words from the last class. To my amazement they caught on and started spewing out words like there was no tomorrow...and they were laughing...COOL, I thought. Then when I was out of words...I paused to look over the material again (sweat). I realized that the next lesson was the beginning of a new unit so there was a list of all the vocabulary words that they would be learning. Idea!!! Write them on the board, make them copy them into their notebooks and that would buy me some time to look over the next lesson. What I didn't plan for was some of the girls are fast writers and they get bored easily. I allowed them to quietly play rock, paper, scissors while the others finished copying and I would shush them down when they got too loud. Finally when they were all done copying I bought myself a bit more time by going over the words and having them listen and then repeat and then showing them what the words meant...desk (points to the desk), blue (points to something blue), etc. Then I think I took up the rest of the class with teaching them a new song in the book. I think I lengthened it by going line by line and it kinda turned into a game...then with the last 5 minutes we did Simon Says. At the end of the class I was hoping that the lady would kindly say, "Thank you!" and then kindly leave but that was not the case. She proceded to ask me if she could talk to me for a moment and I seriously thought she was just gonna lay it on me and I was going to burst into tears and end up quitting, never to go back to teaching again. Apparently this lady was on crack or something because she layed on the compliments so thick that I could have momentarily been under a delusion that I was the best teacher on God's green earth. Bringing myself back down to reality I reasoned to myself that this lady merely had the job of stroking teachers egos so that they would stay with the institution. The only slightly negative thing that she did say was that I needed to do a warm up for the first ten minutes...something that was fun yet educational...hmm...I thought I did one...but I took her advice and left the room with a bit of a skip in my step...ok so the delusion wasn't completely out of my head.
I thought seriously that the one hour and fifteen minute lesson would never ever ever come to an end. The funny thing is that I had recently lost or had my cell phone stolen so not having any concept of time usually makes the class fly by, not this time. I think I managed to remember something about the last class which was about five days ago so I started off by writing one word on the board and made an attempt to cue the class that I needed them to remember some of the words from the last class. To my amazement they caught on and started spewing out words like there was no tomorrow...and they were laughing...COOL, I thought. Then when I was out of words...I paused to look over the material again (sweat). I realized that the next lesson was the beginning of a new unit so there was a list of all the vocabulary words that they would be learning. Idea!!! Write them on the board, make them copy them into their notebooks and that would buy me some time to look over the next lesson. What I didn't plan for was some of the girls are fast writers and they get bored easily. I allowed them to quietly play rock, paper, scissors while the others finished copying and I would shush them down when they got too loud. Finally when they were all done copying I bought myself a bit more time by going over the words and having them listen and then repeat and then showing them what the words meant...desk (points to the desk), blue (points to something blue), etc. Then I think I took up the rest of the class with teaching them a new song in the book. I think I lengthened it by going line by line and it kinda turned into a game...then with the last 5 minutes we did Simon Says. At the end of the class I was hoping that the lady would kindly say, "Thank you!" and then kindly leave but that was not the case. She proceded to ask me if she could talk to me for a moment and I seriously thought she was just gonna lay it on me and I was going to burst into tears and end up quitting, never to go back to teaching again. Apparently this lady was on crack or something because she layed on the compliments so thick that I could have momentarily been under a delusion that I was the best teacher on God's green earth. Bringing myself back down to reality I reasoned to myself that this lady merely had the job of stroking teachers egos so that they would stay with the institution. The only slightly negative thing that she did say was that I needed to do a warm up for the first ten minutes...something that was fun yet educational...hmm...I thought I did one...but I took her advice and left the room with a bit of a skip in my step...ok so the delusion wasn't completely out of my head.
posted by Lotus @ 1/25/2006 05:32:00 PM
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