I had my first meeting between myself, my university supervisor and one of my two co-operating teachers earlier this week. It went well. The meeting was largely so my supervisor could meet the teacher and then explain some of the paperwork the teacher will be filling out on me over the next ten weeks.
I was caught off guard however with the scheduling of my first informal observation by the supervisor. I won’t even have two weeks in the classroom before that first observation. The only thing keeping me from panicking about this is that I’m not expected to do any teaching that day or even really do anything at all. If I’m still at a point where I am only observing and perhaps assisting students in a one-on-one capacity while my co-operating teacher still runs the classroom, that’s ok. I’d really hoped that I would be doing more in the classroom before my first observation, but I’ll just have to see where I’m at with such a quick turnaround on things.
I do have a copy of the teacher’s edition of the text. I’m toying with starting writing a few lesson plans so I can get those out of the way as soon as possible. I’m just not sure if I should start with the chapter the class will be studying as of this next week or if I should target my lesson plans for chapter after that. I wasn’t able to get any kind of hard time from my co-operating teacher for how long the next chapter may take.
