Mr. Ward Visits My Classroom.
It is Thursday, My "Good" Day. I have Web Design and two Tech classes today. 2nd Period is the Web Design and the kids are working on finishing a project. As our writing assignment for the week, I decided to give the kids a little research project. They hate it, but I am OK with that.
We did a little bit of background discussion regarding Graphic Design and then I set the kids loose to pick a famous Graphic Designer and put together a little paper and presentation regarding that person. This is not something to finish in one class period, but something that we can use to fill the gaps in our days. Hopefully, a kid or two will also learn something about Graphic Art and decide that it is pretty cool.
4th Period is one of my better Tech classes. They are currently working on the "Plotting Technology" project, where they have to dimensionally sketch and then plot a piece of technology. I am pleasantly pleased at the work that I see the kids producing. Problem is, as with all of my projects, some kids complete work early and others are still working. Argh. What to do, what to do.
In 6th Period, arguably my best class, because of the motivated kids and the small class size, 11, Mr. Ward, my principal, stopped in to observe the class. He wants to see how I am doing with my first year teaching and with things like Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, etc. We are in Day Two of "The Paper Tower" project, where kids have to build a paper tower and plot their design of their tower in AutoCAD. Mr. Ward only stayed for about 10 minutes or so, then left. I don't think that he worries too much about my classroom management, as for the most part, I keep the kids at a slightly less than chaotic level. He also told me later that he really liked the project that we were working on and that he thought it was a great one for the class. Yeah!
After school, I get to stay late and grade stuff. That will be awesome!
They don't tell you in teacher school what a complete pain in the ass grading is. If they did, nobody would ever become a teacher.
We did a little bit of background discussion regarding Graphic Design and then I set the kids loose to pick a famous Graphic Designer and put together a little paper and presentation regarding that person. This is not something to finish in one class period, but something that we can use to fill the gaps in our days. Hopefully, a kid or two will also learn something about Graphic Art and decide that it is pretty cool.
4th Period is one of my better Tech classes. They are currently working on the "Plotting Technology" project, where they have to dimensionally sketch and then plot a piece of technology. I am pleasantly pleased at the work that I see the kids producing. Problem is, as with all of my projects, some kids complete work early and others are still working. Argh. What to do, what to do.In 6th Period, arguably my best class, because of the motivated kids and the small class size, 11, Mr. Ward, my principal, stopped in to observe the class. He wants to see how I am doing with my first year teaching and with things like Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, etc. We are in Day Two of "The Paper Tower" project, where kids have to build a paper tower and plot their design of their tower in AutoCAD. Mr. Ward only stayed for about 10 minutes or so, then left. I don't think that he worries too much about my classroom management, as for the most part, I keep the kids at a slightly less than chaotic level. He also told me later that he really liked the project that we were working on and that he thought it was a great one for the class. Yeah!
After school, I get to stay late and grade stuff. That will be awesome!
They don't tell you in teacher school what a complete pain in the ass grading is. If they did, nobody would ever become a teacher.
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