#1
My short practicum started with an unexpectedly warm welcome from the school administration followed by the tour of the scool. We (together with two other UBC teacher candidates) were introduced to almost everybody in the school and spent about an hour getting to know the school policies and procedures in the board office with all three vice principals and principal in attendance. I really appreaciate their effort to make our short practicum a positive experience. All the teachers of the Math department heard about me coming to observe and teach in my SA's class. Two of them came over to see me teach when they had a free block. I got a lot of advice from so many of them, I fell really thankful.
#2
I wasn't aware that the day my FA was coming is actually going to be a modified day, so I prepared a nice long lesson on the quadratic formula and the proof of the formula. I had to adjust the lesson to be able to finish it in 50 min insted of 70 min but wasn't able to go over everyting I have planned.
During the lesson one of the student's desk he was sitting on fell apart and the whole class laughed for about 5 minutes, which shortened my already short time. At almost the end of the period the announcement went on eating another 5 minutes not leaving me time to wrap up the lesson. It was really frustrating but I learned that I have to be more flexible as a teacher because situations like these happen and I have to be able to deal with the unexpected all the time.
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