Last Friday of student teaching for September. So weird. But from the things I decided during the last B period day, which was Wednesday, where I just have to be super confident in what I'm doing and not be afraid to really call out kids, things actually didn't go super horribly. The other thing, because I've been here awhile, and students have come to realize that I really am a teacher, not just an observing student, and not just a substitute, but an actual teacher, they have actually been coming to me with questions about assignments and other tasks on the land lab in addition to the instructor for that class. Knowing names has also helped with this. And actually, during last period (8th), Mrs Bozarth had a substitute for the day because she was home with a sick child, and a lot of the students were more ready and willing to ask me for assistance on the assignment than their substitute teacher. They were working out of their text books, so I pulled one out and went over it and went through the questions at the end of the chapter so that I would be able to help them answer them when questions would come up.

One other thing I really started to notice was that students would come by before, between, and during lunch to just come by and say hi - to me - not just the other teachers in the rooms, and some of the students were from the classes that I primarily taught, namely the 4th period principles of agriculture class, and they had not ordinarily come by the classroom other than for their class. Maybe this isn't much, and doesn't mean anything, but it kinda made my day. I know I have a long way to go, but maybe, just maybe I'm not really doing so bad after all?