TFA and Training!
Well, today was supposed to be my first day of teaching, but mother nature had different ideas and decided to through a torrential downpour complete with lightning and thunder on the city of Houston, cancelling summer school for the day at all of our sites and putting my expertly crafted lesson plan on hold for a day. Tomorrow I will wow my students with my expectations, class goal, and their first diagnostic (so I can get a chance of how they're doing).
After an epic road-trip with Aunt Annie (we made it to Mississippi in three days from Washington, that's pretty good) we arrived in Houston on day 4 (also made a detour to New Orleans, that was quite an experience...though I haven't had much time to reflect on it).
Institute has been a whirlwind of deadlines, lack of sleep, and full days of work. Last week our bus left around 6:21 a.m., meaning I had to be up, dressed, and breakfasted by that time. The school I'm teaching at is in West Houston, and it's about a 45-1 hour drive from where we live, depending on the traffic.
Most of the days were spent in lectures, but these were really helpful and informative: all about setting goals, gauging progress, and how to set classroom expectations. Even in a short week I felt pretty confident about my first day. The people here are all amazing too and come from all different backgrounds and walks of life. But they're all unified in their wanting to change things in our public schools. It's that mission that unites us and it's a great thing to share with people.
More to come: Lesson 1 will start tomorrow. I feel ready, nervous, and excited. I'm teaching 7th grade English for a summer school program and then I'll be shipped off to Arkansas to teach choir (I used "shipped off" deliberately: this feels like teacher boot-camp) by Mid July.
Wish me luck.
Cheers,
-Nate
"You were almost kind, you were almost true. Don't let them see, that other side of you."
After an epic road-trip with Aunt Annie (we made it to Mississippi in three days from Washington, that's pretty good) we arrived in Houston on day 4 (also made a detour to New Orleans, that was quite an experience...though I haven't had much time to reflect on it).
Institute has been a whirlwind of deadlines, lack of sleep, and full days of work. Last week our bus left around 6:21 a.m., meaning I had to be up, dressed, and breakfasted by that time. The school I'm teaching at is in West Houston, and it's about a 45-1 hour drive from where we live, depending on the traffic.
Most of the days were spent in lectures, but these were really helpful and informative: all about setting goals, gauging progress, and how to set classroom expectations. Even in a short week I felt pretty confident about my first day. The people here are all amazing too and come from all different backgrounds and walks of life. But they're all unified in their wanting to change things in our public schools. It's that mission that unites us and it's a great thing to share with people.
More to come: Lesson 1 will start tomorrow. I feel ready, nervous, and excited. I'm teaching 7th grade English for a summer school program and then I'll be shipped off to Arkansas to teach choir (I used "shipped off" deliberately: this feels like teacher boot-camp) by Mid July.
Wish me luck.
Cheers,
-Nate
"You were almost kind, you were almost true. Don't let them see, that other side of you."
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