Friday, September 10, 2010

I have no free period during the day at all. But on the upside, there is an awesome camera that I will get to use for taking pictures for my upcoming homework assignment of the room and all of well, everything.

Yeah, I'd say the biggest thing right now is that I'm so overwhelmed with just life in general, not student teaching. Although I will admit that my most difficult class is Vet Science where we're going through livestock judging in preparation for the competition out in Pendleton on the 25th. I don't even know how to livestock judge, so common sense aside and that general knowledge, I'm having to teach myself in order to present it to the kids.

With Meadows having been here last year, and her proficiency in the topic from having been on the OSU livestock judging team, I feel super inadequate to even teach myself, much less present it in front of the high schoolers. But I am forcing myself to overlook it and really dive into anything I can find online to help teach myself the insanity that it is.

The other thing that really gets me is the Welding and Fabrication course. Mainly because I am not super proficient in the subject and my only real experience in it is the course I took at OSU last spring. The other part of it is that both classes are made up of a vast majority of boys... like, over 20 fifteen-year-old boys, who are just after an easy A an don'g give a crap about me or the class (well, potentially for the most part). Needless to say, it's intimidating, and I feel less that prepared for it in just about every way. But I am working on getting myself together to do whatever I need to feel like I am prepared for it.

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