Day Two!

So today I didn't do any formal teaching (as in, I wasn't observed by my co-op teacher), but I certainly did plenty of informal teaching! Oh boy... casual teachers = ugh! (to say the least)
My co-op teacher had a Stage Planning day today, so she was out of the classroom the entire day. I saw her briefly before and after school. The casual was... interesting. I ended up teaching the Year 1 kids for most of the morning, plus did some text type stuff with Kindy. All on the fly haha. The casual really didn't seem to know what she was doing.

And of course it was interesting to see how the kids behaved with a different teacher. They weren't too bad at all, but I could tell that a few kids realised they could get away with a few more things today. I stepped in and helped out as much as I could with management stuff, but I had to make sure that I didn't take over at the same time!

One of the other prac teachers at my school got to sit in the Stage Planning meeting with her teacher briefly - she said it helped open her eyes to how much planning we have to look forward to. Haha w00t! It is a lot, and seeing how much my co-op teacher juggles... it's an incredible amount of stuff. And you people think I'm busy now! ;)
Ah, part of the job, right?

So tomorrow I'll be taking the morning session - doing sight words/phonics etc with Year 1, and then running the whole class activity session where they rotate around the room. Part of that is having a Year 1 activity ready to go, which will be on identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives in a story and then playing a game with those words. Should be pretty alright!

Oh and our Tertiary Advisor came today, just to say hello. Woo hoo we scored a really nice Advisor - had a nice chat with her this morning, and she was full of advice and ensured us that she wasn't there to fail us, but to encourage us into great teachers. Awwww. How nice. We'll only see her once next week, when she'll come to observe us teaching. She's got a lot of schools to get around to and observe other Prac students.

Better get to this lesson planning...