First Impressions From Day One
Garret Esparza
5-16-18
My first day of internship had a rocky start. I was up until 3:00 am the previous night because some spawn-of-Satan bird was squawking all night. Despite getting less than four hours of sleep, my first day was great. The workplace is great. I decided to go back to my old elementary school for my internship and everything was so nostalgic. They have a routine that they do everyday and I remembered so much of it. The school is also so much smaller than I remember. I remember big long halls, the gigantic lunch area, and the huge classrooms, while in reality everything was extremely small. My colleagues are all extremely nice. Because I am working at an elementary school, I am mainly working with my mentor Luey Huggins. I also frequently interact with the other three first grade teachers. They are all so nice. Because I live close to where I am interning, I decided to walk home and all of the first grade teachers have offered to drive me home. I don't know too much about the job that I am doing right now because I am mainly observing. Once I get down the routine I think that I will help with more things around the class than I am doing now. Right now the main thing that I do is walk around the room when the students are doing individual work and correct/check off there work. The kind of work that they are doing is very simple math (addition/subtraction), grammar (learning about rhyming words and what contractions, prefixes, suffixes and compound words are), and writing/reading (they write stories about what they did/are going to do today, everyday and they read very simple first grade books, mainly about animals.) I feel mostly settled into the class. All of the kids know my name (and I know most of there names) and call on me frequently for help. I am excited to get to know the kids better and learn everything about them. I am also nervous and excited for when I get to teach them something. I think if I teach them something already created by my mentor it will be easy, because it is almost guaranteed to work. But if I have to create the lesson by myself I think it will be very challenging to find something that teaches the students, but a great learning experience. I am worried about my project and what I am going to do for that as I do not know at the moment. However, i'm sure that I will think of something!
Garret Esparza
5-16-18
My first day of internship had a rocky start. I was up until 3:00 am the previous night because some spawn-of-Satan bird was squawking all night. Despite getting less than four hours of sleep, my first day was great. The workplace is great. I decided to go back to my old elementary school for my internship and everything was so nostalgic. They have a routine that they do everyday and I remembered so much of it. The school is also so much smaller than I remember. I remember big long halls, the gigantic lunch area, and the huge classrooms, while in reality everything was extremely small. My colleagues are all extremely nice. Because I am working at an elementary school, I am mainly working with my mentor Luey Huggins. I also frequently interact with the other three first grade teachers. They are all so nice. Because I live close to where I am interning, I decided to walk home and all of the first grade teachers have offered to drive me home. I don't know too much about the job that I am doing right now because I am mainly observing. Once I get down the routine I think that I will help with more things around the class than I am doing now. Right now the main thing that I do is walk around the room when the students are doing individual work and correct/check off there work. The kind of work that they are doing is very simple math (addition/subtraction), grammar (learning about rhyming words and what contractions, prefixes, suffixes and compound words are), and writing/reading (they write stories about what they did/are going to do today, everyday and they read very simple first grade books, mainly about animals.) I feel mostly settled into the class. All of the kids know my name (and I know most of there names) and call on me frequently for help. I am excited to get to know the kids better and learn everything about them. I am also nervous and excited for when I get to teach them something. I think if I teach them something already created by my mentor it will be easy, because it is almost guaranteed to work. But if I have to create the lesson by myself I think it will be very challenging to find something that teaches the students, but a great learning experience. I am worried about my project and what I am going to do for that as I do not know at the moment. However, i'm sure that I will think of something!