Blatant Self Promotion
I figured it was time for a new post, and seeing how I am almost at my last week of my teaching practicum I actually have a chance to do a bit of writing.
Truthfully at the moment I'm not really sure what I want to talk about. All I've been doing for the past several weeks is trying to get through the last bit of my practicum.
My practicum has gone really well. I just had my last observation and it went well. However I find that I am still challenged by my grade 9 class. Now I have heard from a few people now that grade 9's are some of the worst classes around, and I shouldn't feel too badly, but still, this bunch is ridiculous. They have no idea when to shut up! I have a feeling, that if I just stood in front of the room and waited for them to be quiet, they would never get there. They would never actually get to the point where someone notices that the teacher is waiting and then they slowly start to get quiet. No no. They would just keep right on going. It's strange though. I know logically what I can do, and what I should do, but for some reason I can't bring myself to execute the strategies. I know it's partly that I haven't quite perfected the eyes in the back of my head thing, but it's also that I don't have the nerve...guts...stand my ground-ness...to really crack down on them. I have a hard time moving people in the class because they are all rather good friends and if I move them they will just start talking to whom ever is beside or around them. Also the texting, playing on phones, using ipods etc during class time is another problem. Truthfully, I don't mind if they have finished the current activity and they are on their phones while they wait for the rest of the class to finish. But when they are texting, or playing or listening to music when they are supposed to be listening to me is a problem. Most of the time I am very resistant to taking someone's phone, and most of the time they won't give it up anyway. Maybe it's because I'm young, or because they know I'm a teacher candidate and not a real teacher yet that they just don't care. At this point though, I don't really care any more either. My mentor teacher keeps telling me that they are a more normal class compared to the other one's I have had on this practicum, and they are more or less what I have to expect. If that's true I fear for my sanity.
But enough about that for now.
I guess the most exciting things that have happened over the past little while is that I had a private message from someone on fanfiction.com that suggested I enter my story in a contest. It's still not finished so I didn't expect it to do well and I was right, but the fact that someone actually suggested it to me, even if it was a paid advertisement type thing, got me really excited about it. So I finished up the chapter I was working on and posted it. I only got two likes and no reviews, but it was still kind of fun to think that it's there on another platform. (Blatant Self Promotion in case anyone is interested). I have to say I have missed working on this over the course of my practicum but planning and marking was just not conducive to long nights writing. Hopefully, once I'm finished I can get some time to do some serious writing and maybe get a few more chapters up, as well as some work done on more relevant things. Who knows, if I get a chance to go with my partner to Ontario in April(if he decides to go that is), maybe I can get something finished! That's what I have decided my "work" will be if I go with him. He can go play with bees and honey, and I will hang out in the little cabin and write. Might be challenging to do research out there as there isn't really any internet, but such is life.
I know I've talked about posting some of my writing on this blog, but I can't decide if I really want to do that. It's been a very long time since I've shared anything I've written with people other than my close friends, it would feel weird to put it out in public...not that this is supper public as not many people read it...but still. I will say, if there is some one out there who reads this thing and thinks I should post some of my creative writing on it, comment and let me know!
Well, I think that's all I got for now.
Cheers
Slรกinte
Skol
Truthfully at the moment I'm not really sure what I want to talk about. All I've been doing for the past several weeks is trying to get through the last bit of my practicum.
My practicum has gone really well. I just had my last observation and it went well. However I find that I am still challenged by my grade 9 class. Now I have heard from a few people now that grade 9's are some of the worst classes around, and I shouldn't feel too badly, but still, this bunch is ridiculous. They have no idea when to shut up! I have a feeling, that if I just stood in front of the room and waited for them to be quiet, they would never get there. They would never actually get to the point where someone notices that the teacher is waiting and then they slowly start to get quiet. No no. They would just keep right on going. It's strange though. I know logically what I can do, and what I should do, but for some reason I can't bring myself to execute the strategies. I know it's partly that I haven't quite perfected the eyes in the back of my head thing, but it's also that I don't have the nerve...guts...stand my ground-ness...to really crack down on them. I have a hard time moving people in the class because they are all rather good friends and if I move them they will just start talking to whom ever is beside or around them. Also the texting, playing on phones, using ipods etc during class time is another problem. Truthfully, I don't mind if they have finished the current activity and they are on their phones while they wait for the rest of the class to finish. But when they are texting, or playing or listening to music when they are supposed to be listening to me is a problem. Most of the time I am very resistant to taking someone's phone, and most of the time they won't give it up anyway. Maybe it's because I'm young, or because they know I'm a teacher candidate and not a real teacher yet that they just don't care. At this point though, I don't really care any more either. My mentor teacher keeps telling me that they are a more normal class compared to the other one's I have had on this practicum, and they are more or less what I have to expect. If that's true I fear for my sanity.
But enough about that for now.
I guess the most exciting things that have happened over the past little while is that I had a private message from someone on fanfiction.com that suggested I enter my story in a contest. It's still not finished so I didn't expect it to do well and I was right, but the fact that someone actually suggested it to me, even if it was a paid advertisement type thing, got me really excited about it. So I finished up the chapter I was working on and posted it. I only got two likes and no reviews, but it was still kind of fun to think that it's there on another platform. (Blatant Self Promotion in case anyone is interested). I have to say I have missed working on this over the course of my practicum but planning and marking was just not conducive to long nights writing. Hopefully, once I'm finished I can get some time to do some serious writing and maybe get a few more chapters up, as well as some work done on more relevant things. Who knows, if I get a chance to go with my partner to Ontario in April(if he decides to go that is), maybe I can get something finished! That's what I have decided my "work" will be if I go with him. He can go play with bees and honey, and I will hang out in the little cabin and write. Might be challenging to do research out there as there isn't really any internet, but such is life.
I know I've talked about posting some of my writing on this blog, but I can't decide if I really want to do that. It's been a very long time since I've shared anything I've written with people other than my close friends, it would feel weird to put it out in public...not that this is supper public as not many people read it...but still. I will say, if there is some one out there who reads this thing and thinks I should post some of my creative writing on it, comment and let me know!
Well, I think that's all I got for now.
Cheers
Slรกinte
Skol
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