I'm three days in to my practicum... and today is the hardest day of the week (the kiddos are with us all day long!). I love them and their funny senses of humour, their grossness (who thought sharing the same teal eyeshadow and brushes was a good idea? really! Or socks randomly in the middle of the classroom floor...), their hatred of writing notes, and their complete inability to be quiet!
That last one is like some cosmic 'ahahaha' getting back at me for years of just talking and talking. Yesterday I left my room at lunch seeking some quiet solace somewhere in the school. Somewhere. Anywhere. My ears where just ringing! I found it, found some delightful teacher company, and then half an hour later I was ready to go again.
My two biggest challenges are behavior management (I've yet to develop my 'take control teacher style') and the sheer amount of questions that I have! Other than those two peices that I'm sure will eventually just come, everything else has been just awesome. I've been cooking up some fun ideas for our learning- and a few are quite non traditional. I'm kind of worried that the lack of writing that I'm currently thinking in science is going to be hard on them. How terrible is it that I'm thinking of getting rid of a game so that I can get them to reflect on an experience (in a form that is longer than the question-reflection that I've decided to incorporate into our lessons).
Well, instead of proofing this, I've gotta go make some tea and head out to school.
