I Like My Observations

I have been enjoying my time at the high school that I go for my observation hours.  The teacher is really nice and she tries to give me any tips possible that will be useful for me when I become a teacher.  What I have been doing when I am there is that I go in during first period because she has a prep period and she told me that coming too early will result in me just sitting there.  Then when I go to her first class with her, I hand out any papers to the class if she has any, take notes during her lesson, and then walk around the room afterwards during the class work problems to help anyone who needs it.  This has actually been pretty easy until last Friday.  I do not remember ever learning certain charts and things when I learned algebra like box plots and tree diagrams, so I was a little nervous when the class was doing the tree diagrams.  I paid attention to the lesson and was actually able to learn and then help the class with it.  In the algebra 2 honors classes, I helped to grade test papers; which does not bother me at all.  I like that I am able to go through to mark and if they have it wrong, go through their work and show them the correct operations or simple errors that they had made. 

The next day that I am going is this Friday and it will be interesting.  The school has a half day that will let out at 12:30 and then I am going to go to a professional development workshop.  I do not really know what will be talked about because the teacher had told me and invited me last week and I wanted to check with my professor first if this was possible.  I hope that I will actually be able to learn some new ideas or concepts that will help me.