Saturday, January 9, 2010

My first few days teaching

Well, I have completed my first week in the classroom. This past week has been observation, which, as it turns out is a little boring. Luckily, next week I begin working hands-on with the kids and will begin actually teaching lessons the week after that. Nonetheless, I have been placed with a pretty cool cooperating teacher whom I believe will help create a positive experience for me. I teach three classes of world history, one class of honors world history and a class called AVID with at-risk youth. All the students I work with are freshman. The kids overall seem pretty cool. The school is full of socioeconomic diversity with rich and poor kids from good and bad families, which makes it interesting. That is really all I have about the classroom right now, but I am enjoying the experience and will update as I can. Hope all is well with everyone!

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  1. Hey Aaron, I'm a few days late getting these read. That's really cool that you're in a school that's diverse socio-economic-wise. I'll really be curious to hear your thoughts as you start working with the kids. Is it racially/ethnically diverse too? Do you think you're seeing different groups of kids there than you'd experienced in Arizona?

    Keep writing about teaching! I really look forward to hearing your impressions.

    And also--what makes your cooperating teacher cool?

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