'No School Wednesday'

A neat thing about my program is that we have this thing my cohort likes to call 'No School Wednesday.' It is a day where our faculty offers workshops, and in November I will be attending my practicum school on Wednesdays.
I have a few workshops lined up in the upcoming weeks and I am particularly excited for them- you'll definitely get an update later on those!

Back to NSW's: I'm really working mine today with some serious multi-tasking. I know that I'm probably not going to be able to do this in my career, but I'm using mine to write up assignments and do readings to the sounds of the CBC and with a huge pot of tea. Its really nice to be able to focus on my school work and do my laundry at the same time!

The multi-tasking part I'm pretty sure will continue through my career. Earlier in the week, we were at a middle school where we were observing middle years classrooms. One teacher sticks out in my mind in particular, she was engaging, interactive and multi-tasking with the students. I remember looking around the classroom and looking at her and thinking: "this is what I want to be! I want to be ! A rockstar teacher!" She was working with a very active group of grade 7 students, mainly comprised of boys who were quite active. They were practicing the days of the week to music, and right before the last round she declared it the 'dance party round'. I'm a big fan of awesome things, and it certainly was: the room was full of dancing grade 7 students singing the days of the week- but the part that made me crack up the most was the can can line in the middle of the class comprised of a group of 6 or 7 boys. I love middle school!


I am going to be meeting up with a friend of mine in the Secondary Program later on today to go shopping for some more "cute teacher attire" (read: school appropriate attire of the sweater variety) and chat about her exciting next week. She is going to be doing her observation up island!

But until then I'm going to get back to my Art Education assignment, and relish in my NSW.