Today was: Kinda Sucky, Kinda Good

Yeah, today was kind of a rollercoaster day. Things started out well, and then at 10:30, I'm telling you, the kids just TURNED. Suddenly, EVERYONE was REALLY cranky. I had to say to a couple of kids, "You're going to do this because I TOLD YOU TO DO IT." I hadn't had anyone be that defiant to me until today. I'm sure part of it was because it was OPRESSIVELY HOT today, and after lunch the kids seemed a bit better, but for an hour there... whew...

I had my second Student Teaching seminar at SFSU this evening, which meant that I had to leave school early, missing out on a Staff Development meeting on "assessment" (a fellow student teacher and I went to 45 minutes of the meeting and walked away thinking, "That went WAY over my head - I really had NO idea what they were talking about..."). At seminar we talked a bit about learning disabilities and the teacher HAD US WATCH A VIDEO. It was an interesting video giving the viewer an insight into what students with learning disabilites go through in a school day, but, it really isn't a good idea to put 30 student teachers in a dark room on the evening of their 4th straight day in the classroom - extreme exhaustion and lights out leads to an even more severe exhaustion.

More tomorrow when I'm not so exhausted. No teaching tomorrow, but I'm going to try to go down to a nearby Child Development Center (a San Francisco Unified School District preschool - one that I spent some time in last Fall) and ask about volunteering on Fridays. If they ask if I want to start immediately, I will lie and say that I have something else to do tomorrow. Again, exhaustion...