My master teacher and I are working well together.  Even though I was officially teaching only one class this week (5^th period), I wound up being an assistant in the other classes as well.  Much of the time I felt like Ed McMahon to his Johnny Carson because he would bounce things off of me mid lecture or confer with me on a question that a student asked – sometimes I would know, other times I’d have to look up the information on my computer while he continued lecturing.  Our mutual goal was always to supply the student with the correct answer.  To me, this was an unexpected use of a student teacher, but I loved it, and I think the kids did too.  Towards the end of the week, he had a lot of administrative things to do, so I wound up covering parts of various classes as well.  I also subbed in another seventh grade history class this week when no substitute could be found on short notice.  The teacher left a pretty minimal lesson plan, but it was alright because he was only slightly ahead of our class, and I was preparing to teach that section already.  It allowed me to try some stuff ahead of time.

Next week, I begin teaching two periods.  It’s going to be a weird week because the middle school is having an all week “anti-bully” campaign.  The teaching schedule will be 33 – 37 minute periods, depending on the day, so the students can attend about two hours of “anti-bully” movies and discussions in the morning.  It’s going to throw off my master teacher’s schedule, so we’re going to have to be efficient with what we teach, yet still get all the content in.  Some handouts and projects might become homework if we can’t fit everything in.