primer dia

Well today was my first day on this end of the school day....

It was definitely different than I thought. It was very interesting to see how the kids varied in their attention spans as the day went on. I know it could have just been because it was the first day, but the kids seemed to be very unenthusiastic as the day went on. I was also struck by the variation in skill level across the classes. One of the Spanish 3 classes was really sharp and very talkative, while the later in the day 3 class was not up to par with the skills. We picked my focus class, too, 4th hour Spanish 1. They were so great and really understood what I was saying. I'm really excited to work with them. We'll see how things progress as the year goes on...

*One more cool thing that happened today... A lot of the teachers and administrators have a hard time distinguishing the interns from students (You know how all older people look about the same age? it's like that for older people when it comes to young people) But I was so excited today when one of the students in last hour recognized me as a teacher :)

We will see how much they respect my authority as the year progresses...