So I am at a school right near my house in the west end, General Wolfe. I personally did not attend the school but many of my friends are in the graduating class pictures on the walls. The school is slightly strange, being an open concept school and later having renovations, the floor plan of the small building is a bit peculiar. Their are about 460 students at the school and probably less than 35-40 who are Caucasian. I am actually quite used to this from growing up and attending school in the area. The staff are all very nice and is happy to have student teachers in the building.
Being one of the tallest people in the building I am referred to affectionately as "Paul" Pierce... the NBA player, I don't mind this because EVERYONE now knows who I am, or at least my last name. On wed this week I supervised and joined in on the schools break dance club, that's right break dance... I am going to supervise from now on and believe it or not I'm not bad, I can now say that I have participated in an actual break dance battle.
The gym is very "real" small, often with 2 classes combined (30-40 students) not a whole lot of planning, and not great equipment. I constantly battle with safety issues in the gym which are overlooked by the other gym teachers, but don't exactly know how to remedy the problem. My CT was punched in the face on tuesday while seperating 2 students who were fighting... Dispite this I actually really like the time I spend in the gym.
I spend a lot of my time with a science teacher as well, she is great. The students unfortunatly for the most part are not interested in the class and show it. There are lots of classroom management issues, so things move real slowly. I am going to start teaching in both gym and science next week which I am looking forward to. I want to break routine in both classes and do my own thing, so i know i will be busy coming up with lesson plans.
I am doing great and from the sounds of it, so is everyone else. I think it is interesting that everyone is having such different experiences.
I'm feeling your pain George! My experience with behaviour and unmotivated kids isn't going any better. Sure makes it difficult to get excited about doing anything with them...but think positive...we can do this!
ReplyDeleteGreat hearing from you George, shake things up and see what happens my friend. You'll do great and i'm looking forward to hearing about it.
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