Day 8: Supervisor Visit

Today was a great day!  I was able to take over for two of the 9^th grade teachers today for the first time.  I had been planning on taking over one of the classes (3^rd period) for a while. But then during lunch there was another 9^th grade teacher that came up to me and asked if I would come in and teach a lesson.  Lief, the first 9^th grade teacher, said that I passed his class meaning that I did a good job teaching his students.  I was glad that he said that because he thought that I did a good job.  I don’t remember the second teachers’ name but he thought that I did a good job with his class as well.  So I got a bunch of positive feedback from those two teachers.  It was nice to be able to teach the same lesson back to back.  That way I was able to emphasize somethings more than others to help out the students with their practice problems that would come after my instruction.

I also was able to take over the 10a class for the whole period.  Erland was there to support but he pretty much let me take control.  The lesson was on simple probability on sample space.  In my lesson earlier today I remembered to have the Norwegian word for those important English vocabulary words.  But I forgot for sample space.  While I was explaining the notation for sample space Erland said the Norwegian word for sample space (utfallsrom) and that helped the students out a lot.  The students seemed to enjoy the quarters that I gave to them.  After the lesson, Erland talked about how he thought that the lesson went well.   Those students that usually participate still participated and it seemed like all of the students were understanding what I was saying.

Today wasn't my day for observation, though maybe I will wish that today would have been the day.  We shall see what tomorrow has in store.  Donna and Sylvia visited Sarah and Kylie today.  Tomorrow they will observe Brooke and I.  After school we all rode the bus from Husnes back to Rosendal.  We went to the grocery store so that Sylvia and Donna could buy groceries for tonight's dinner.  It was a nice meal.  We had a couple kinds of fish.  I am not going to say that I am a fan of fish or anything but I was able to eat the fish.  So that is a good start away from not eating fish.  Then we also had some ice cream and berries.  As we ate that Sylvia and Donna asked interview questions and we all had time to answer the questions.  For example, ''tell us a little about yourself'', ''what is something you learned doing student teaching in Norway?'' ''describe your teaching in three words.''  It was good practice so that we can think about what we would say.

I don't think that I took any pictures of the affair so sorry for the lack of pictures.