Week 15

Last week in my mentor class I did a lot of observing. My mentor teacher was really caught up on her work so I didn't need to do any grading or help in any way. The only thing I needed to do Monday was write the correct scores on the spelling tests. The class also got a new student. He seems to need a lot of help on what the class is doing and seems to be causing a lot of trouble. I noticed that she moved him up closer to the front for he was once in the very back. The school he used to go to didn't seem to be on the same curriculum as the fourth grade class at Liberty Traditional School. It really makes me wonder how different curriculums are at the different schools. I also learned that my mentor teacher had a student teacher last year and it didn't go well. She is still finding things that are disorganized. I remember last year my mentor teacher had a student teacher too. I wonder if all teacher's need to take on a student teacher at some point in time. The best thing that happened to me this week was watching the math lessons. The students are so involved! There was not really a bad part except she wasn't able to give me my lesson plan objective until Monday which is fine because I still have time.