Today was the craziest day of student teaching I have experienced. It was Mrs. Gabriele's first day back and I was being observed. Mrs. Gabriele came back and gave me a bunch of extra things to do. Then she informed me that she could start bleeding internally and have to be rushed to the hospital and that I would need to rush the students out of the room.
Dr. Jarrett came to observe the math lesson today, which was review Jeopardy for the test that we are having on Wednesday. Multiple of the students decided to argue with me about the randomly assigned teams. Some of the students decided to argue about the rules. One student decided to come up to the chalk board to argue with me in the middle of the game about the answer to a question.
The other MAC class had a substitute TA all day and a substitute teacher in the afternoon. Today was the longest day of student teaching ever and I still have a ton of prep work and grading to do tonight. I am sooooo ready for student teaching to be done and have my own classroom where I can make the rules and discipline system. There was not punishment that I was allowed to give for anything that happened today and I think that I am going to go insane soon.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
3 Weeks with a Substitute and My Cooperating Teacher is Coming Back
It has been 3 weeks since Mrs. Gabriele was at school. She is feeling better and is planning on being back at school tomorrow. The 3 weeks with the substitute went much better than I would have expected. The substitute and I got along really well. We definitely played off of each other effectively. I am ever in the situation of co-teaching, I can only hope that I get along half as well with the other teacher as I did with the substitute. I am glad that Mrs. Gabriele is feeling better, but I feel like 3 weeks is not long enough to recover froma a heart attack and be back at school. I truly hope that Mrs. Gabriele is ready to be back at school. I worry that she may be jumping back into things too soon. I am going to do everything that I can to make her transition back into school as easy as possible for her.
I think that these last two weeks of student teaching are going to be the hardest. Not only will I be continuing to teach everything, but I feel like I will probably be worrying a lot about Mrs. Gabriele. One of her procedures after the heart attack had some complications. She has been having some internal bleeding issues and I worry that the stress that comes with teaching and the chaos of the two MAC classes might cause the bleeding to start again. She coughed the other day and the bleeding started up, so it does not take much to aggravate the situation. I am praying that these last two weeks will go well and that she will be able to rest a lot over their winter break and be fully recovered when school starts back up in January.
I think that these last two weeks of student teaching are going to be the hardest. Not only will I be continuing to teach everything, but I feel like I will probably be worrying a lot about Mrs. Gabriele. One of her procedures after the heart attack had some complications. She has been having some internal bleeding issues and I worry that the stress that comes with teaching and the chaos of the two MAC classes might cause the bleeding to start again. She coughed the other day and the bleeding started up, so it does not take much to aggravate the situation. I am praying that these last two weeks will go well and that she will be able to rest a lot over their winter break and be fully recovered when school starts back up in January.
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