The Weekend

So I had my weekly teaching session on Wednesday, my group in Period 4 is a Year 7 Humanities class - great bunch of kids, I get along with them really well. There's a few kids in there as well who have a desperately difficult home life, of course I can't divulge but you get the idea. It's really wierd, some of them can be a bit badly behaved at times and some of them can be downright nasty to each other but I still if asked would say that each and every one of them is a good kid. Perhaps I'm getting attached...

My mentor for the whole thing is a teacher who's been at BW for a good few years and is well known for being friendly and approachable and I'm counting my lucky stars that I got her as a mentor, not only is she a really nice lady but she's willing to let me take a bit more of an active role which is probably the reason why I've decided on becoming a teacher in later life.

Annnnnnyway, this week was the start of 8 weeks of Geography where MJ (mentor) hasn't really got much knowledge so she lets me do a fair chunk of the teaching - this Wednesday I essentially taught the entire lesson, pretty much just improvising as I went along seen as I'd never saw the powerpoint we were using before. Normally when I'm stood there at the front I'm really self-conscious and stand still like a lemon, but this time everything flowed really smoothly and it felt great! MJ said it was my best one to date since I started in September.

Period 5 was Citizenship with another year 7 class. Activity: Class discussion about healthy eating. Meh.

So the rest of the week has basically been stress, stress and more stress, with the dreaded German speaking exam only 4 days away and all of my other teachers breathing down my neck, like the unreasonable fire-breathing dragons they are.

Work tomorrow, been asked to do 6.5 hours instead of the usual 4. Whoopie.

Until we meet again,

PMTP