It's a Rainy Wednesday

Let's see, what has happened since I last blogged. Last Friday we held the first of our Urban Round Table  Series, which myself and a fellow classmate are in charge planning. This is an event that is held once a month and each month we invite a different teacher to speak. This past week we had a teacher who is actually a mentor of one of our interns, he is also a graduate of the Union MAT Program and also went through National Board Certification here at UGC, so he was able to provide a lot of insight on both our internship experiences as well as the program. The talk was supposed to last an hour and it went two hours and over 20 interns attended. He was so helpful answering all of our questions and being open and honest with his experiences and how he has dealt with different situations. I think the timing was perfect for all of us, at having been interning for almost two months now, it helped to have a different perspective and also hear how our fellow classmates experiences are going. This weekend I was hit by the change in weather, long days and stress so suffice to say I slept a lot and still not feeling well called in sick to my internship on Monday,which was hard for me to do, because I don't like missing things. What I realized is I would not be at my best for my students and I did not want to get anyone sick. My mentor was totally okay with it and I went back yesterday. Yesterday was a little rough, but today was much better. I am looking forward to doing a demonstration for my lab on Friday, hopefully my students will be as excited as I am. I gave a longer quiz today, which I was glad to see some of my students did much better than they had been, so I was extremely excited to see that. I think my students enjoyed today's lab. They got to look under the microscope at an Elodea leaf, which was still fresh so they were able to see chloroplasts moving around, which they seemed to think was pretty cool.
  My supervisor is coming in again tomorrow, which I am interested to see how it goes. The last time he was in, my students were a little less behaved than they normally are, so I am hoping I can get them to stay on task and listen to the notes I am giving them. I am looking forward to any insight my supervisor can provide to help keep the students more on task and keep the flow of the class go more smoothly. Sometimes it is all dependant on the day and the student dynamics, so you can never quite predict how a class might go.
  Well I think that is it for today. I will let you know how the demo and supervisor visit went next week!