Orange Juice and Teacher Meetings

Well, today wasn't with the students, though the school had quite a bit of meetings today. And during the first meeting I found out that my lid on the bottle with orange juice in it wasn't exactly tighten enough. Which ended up spilling onto the floor through my bag. Fortunately, no one gave me too hard of a time, and nothing was really damaged.

The first thing that surprised me was the fact they had an entrance for boys and an entrance for girls, the age of the place stood out. I also didn't expect the high school to be so small, especially after finding out that the school was 7-12 as well.

The meetings were interesting as I learned quite a bit and some of the history of what happened last year. I wasn't surprised about the number of meetings; though that may have been since RAs have even more meetings for training week. Also met my cooperating teacher and quite a bit of the staff, though I only remember a few of the names. I have my own desk in the classroom which is nice and I like the fact it is in the back of class, that way when students walk in I'll see them and they'll have to see me as well. The classroom has desks similar to what we had for MAT classes, which slightly worries me, especially with Life Science with 8th graders. The staff seems very friendly to me and the guest speaker they had at the end of the day was interesting, and surprising most of what he talked about management was what came up in Ray's class and a few other classes.

Overall, I'm still nervous but feel a bit better, as I don't think I'll make myself a complete fool though I may start leading with a lab earlier than I expected because the chemistry class has to wait for OIT to start the term a bit. And my teacher asked if I had any lab ideas. The one thing that a meeting opened my eyes about was that the school board could change policies very quickly if they want to, as the last meeting they had they made a change that is going to have a major impact on how teachers grade, I believe.

Lastly, I do have one thing to add, a link to a comic that those of the "computer problematic" will find useful. http://xkcd.com/627/ Hope you find it useful.