miss miranda...the teacher

so i just got back from Lincoln Elementary Magnet School where i taught my first ever REAL lesson to a REAL class of students...AHHHHH!! A little background on the school and the classroom so you can get the full effect of my feelings right now...so Lincoln is over by LANE-if you know Jackson at all you know that LANE is the historically african american university, it's a beautiful campus and all the people that i would pass on my way were really nice but just past that is a not so good part of jackson, well at least to me. That sounds really shallow but the neighborhoods in this area are very deprived, many are very old and not in good condition. The enrollment at the school is 90%-10%, African American students to White Students...when i walked into the school for the first time i was amazed, the students were well behaved and the teachers were excited to be there...
now on to the class i observed and taught in. It's Mrs. Kinard's Transition-1 Class and basically she has 13 students who were done with Kindergarden but not quite ready for 1st grade, so they spend a year in her class getting caught up so they can go onto 1st grade in August. I have known about teaching since the start of the semester but had to wait until the end of the semester to teach but that's beside the point...
so getting to my lesson, it was a lesson on reading comprehension mainly because that's what i could come up with and Mrs. Kinard was like i dont really care what you teach...something to do with reading. so since that's what i want to do (reading specialist/reading teacher) i decided to do that. so i was going to read a story and have them do some things about the story-to work on remembering details from a story. but these children, i feel so bad for some of them. they did great through the story and through a "discussion" at the end of the story but then when it came time to do the "assessment and evaluation" part-that's a whole nother story! they were going to draw a picture from the story and then write a sentence about it...and even with a "sentence starter" they still all struggled...so that didn't work.
on top of all that it was thundering and what not out side and my professor was in there to observe me..so that was intimidating...not as bad as i was expecting but still intimidating...AHHH
now i have to goto World Civ.

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