Day 9: 1st Day of Teaching

Summary of Day: Got to school Spent the morning talking with group about how post-lesson assessments would go Went upstairs to practice in my classroom – practiced with Promethean board (a wall-screen you can hook your computer up to and interact with). Other...

Day 8: Preparing for Class

I did not sleep quite as long today. (I woke up at 8:30 am, and then went back to bed until 11:00 am.) I went to brunch for the first time today, and though I didn’t find that much appealing, I did have some eggs and a biscuit. At 12:30 pm, I met with my...
Day 7: Soapbox Races

Day 7: Soapbox Races

Last night, I slept for 15 hours straight. Wow! I woke up at 11:00 am and had barely gotten dressed when there came a knock at my suite door. It was a group of eight of my fellow corps members (most of whom I didn’t really know except by name) wanting to know if...
Day 6: Practice Teaching

Day 6: Practice Teaching

Once again, I am writing this blog post well after the fact. (I got only 45 minutes of sleep on Thursday, so I was in no shape to write anything by Friday.) Today was actually a pretty neat day. I forget what we did in the early morning, but we spent the mid-morning...
Day 5: High Expectations

Day 5: High Expectations

Today we began our school day in our CMA (Corps Member Advisor) groups. My group consisted of myself, seven other corps members, and our corps member advisors. We went in a round-robin sharing our “vision” for our summer school classroom, with the others...
Day 4: Lesson Plans

Day 4: Lesson Plans

I’m going to start writing about this day in the middle, since it’s actually been four days since all this occurred, and I no longer remember the details. Today was the first time we saw our kids. My teaching group (myself and three other corps members)...