So, today was my last day student teaching at my high school placement. It was a bittersweet day. I taught one class (1st block), and helped out with 4th block(which I never fully took over). The students said good-bye, and some said that they would miss me. I will miss my classes. Stella was really sweet, and she ordered some pizza and invited the science faculty and anyone else who stopped in to come and have some.
All we did today in class was review for their test on Tuesday. I checked homework, went over two homeworks, gave them a review sheet to work on, and read them the answers at the end. Kind of a boring day, but Stella overruled the Jeopardy game due to the thought that the students need more practice at multiple choice test because they don’t get enough practice in the elementary and middle schools. I had a discussion with Stella about this previously, and she said that the students cannot take the information out of a word problem an apply their scientific knowledge to it. I feel like I’ve heard this as a complaint by many teachers, though, so I don’t know if this is strictly a problem for this school.
One of the things I’m going to miss about the school is the people. The people I met there were great, and were very happy to help me when they could. That kind of community is great to have in a school, and I hope that the school I end up working for has a similar environment.
