The first day of the internship went smoothly and was pretty uneventful. Carrie and I (Carrie is my internship partner) got to school this morning and went to our supervising teacher's classroom. I spent 3 weeks in his classroom back in September and October and one week in December, and he was very happy to see that he had not scared us out of coming back for the full time internship.
The school we are at works on a block schedule so today we saw period 1 (Regular American History) and period 2 (AP American History). 3rd period is planning time, so we ate a little lunch and asked our supervising teacher a ton of questions: When do you want us to take over the regular classes? How much should we hope to teach in the next 9 weeks? How do you want us to keep grades? Can we use the copy machine? It was a long list...
But to answer some of those questions, next Tuesday is the REALLY big day. The new semester is going to be starting and we are taking advantage of that time of transition to take over the instruction of the regular American History classes. So what does that mean for Carrie and I? We will be spending this week figuring out how we want to structure our classroom and planning lessons for the next chapter, which will probably take 2 weeks to cover. American History is taking us westward as the United States expand into the territory beyond the Mississippi River. (This is the part of US History that I haven't studied for about 8 years, so this is going to be a learning experience for both myself and the students!).
I have class tonight and then it is back to the classroom tomorrow to see periods 4 and 5!
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