Intern Experience Week #5

This past week at SHMS it was a very short yet emotional week, because it was my last few days with my students. Besides the emotion of it being my last week I also had to deal with the experiences that come with dealing with your students when a sub is in the classroom. Overall my students were pretty good and listened to me, however I did have to raise my voice and ask them if they would treat me the way they were if their regular classroom teacher was in there and that settled them down a lot. The best part of this whole experience would be the following morning when my teacher came into the classroom she said that she had ran into the sub from yesterday and he wanted her to know what a fabulous job I did. My teacher then explained to me that this particular teacher was an 'old school' teacher and that I should feel honored that he spoke so highly of me. It made me feel really good that she said this because I have really gotten to the point where I am comfortable in the classroom and teaching. It is nice to know that it shows to other professionals.
Also on Wednesday I was able to attend an in service where we went over some online grading, writing programs, and teacher web pages. It was interesting to see these different tools being used because I am not familiar with these things seeing that I am from out of state and my other places thus far have not been so in depth to the point where my teachers informed me on these programs.