Observation Day!

Today I had my first formal observation by my University Supervisor. I made sure I had everything ready and re-read the rubric for it last night just to make sure I was remembering all of the parts. I’ve got it. This morning I’m up and going but somehow I didn’t have as much time as I thought I should and I hurried out the door in order to not be late. As I was driving I thought to myself, I’ll make it close enough to on time at least and I’m all ready for my lesson. I was off of the freeway and a couple minutes away from the school when I realized, I FORGOT MY SHOES!!!

Ok, now that may sound bad and you may think to yourself, how can she forget her shoes?! It’s actually quite simple. I did have shoes on. I wear flip flops around the house all the time so I had something on my feet but not my shoes for teaching. For those of you who do not know, flip flops are NOT ok for teachers. We were told quite a few times that they are not professional so don’t wear them. As it is, today was pajama day at school and I specifically dressed in nice professional clothes anyway just because of my observation and then I forget appropriate shoes! Oh man, how annoying. Let’s just take away some points before the lesson even starts! My Cooperating teacher told me that she’d let me go home to get my shoes but I didn’t. How unprofessional would that have been! I just stayed there and decided I couldn’t worry about it. Well, my observation came and it went really well. I told her about my shoes and she said that she understood. She actually told me that she understood why I dressed nice but that she would be ok with the pajamas since the entire school was doing it as long as I let her know. So, she understood about that little thing and I did well on my lesson so I’m happy. It has been a long day and now that I’m home tonight, I will relax a little before going to bed. I have my lessons all ready for tomorrow. I add music to my lessons so that'll be good. Fun stuff! I love student teaching!
My class is great!!!  Random comment, one of my students fell asleep so many times today!  He slept in the rubber at recess; fell asleep at the table multiple times at the table and sitting in circle.  At one point he completely fell out of his chair because he was asleep!  Man he was tired. It was cute but oh so sad.  The other kids would keep going over to him at recess or during class to check on him.  One student informed me (during recess) that he's breathing so I didn't need to worry.  I just love them!  Every day is a new day with them which I love.