The Malicious Monocle

  Well, so far student teaching has been incredibly relaxing. Of course, that may be because we’ve ended up with two non-contiguous snow days this week. When we were in school, I did step up and teach a lesson using the teacher’s lesson plan and had it go pretty well. The only real problem I felt I had was in going too quickly for the kids. I really need to learn the proper pacing for these Middle School kids. I don’t have my lesson plans written yet, but they are pretty well planned out in my head. I’ve also managed to make a good start on my first power point. Their regular teacher uses an overhead, but I can’t stand them. I had to copy endless notes off of overheads when I was 13. I really don’t want to now use them myself.

For my snow days I’ve spent them being pretty productive. Perhaps not as productive as I could have spent them, but I didn’t totally slack off. Today I even managed to go out and meet up with a classmate for some coffee. That was pretty nice. It was only for about an hour and a half, but at least it meant I got out for a bit. She even bought me the coffee.

I also filed my income tax today. Education credits are fun!

Before going back to my power point slides, I’ll leave this: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/01/ipod-plus-delca.html

It’s a link to an article that has copies of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution read aloud and available for free download.