Classroom

I got to check out my classroom on Friday. I could not set it up or anything yet because there is a teacher moving out of the room to a different class and he still had his stuff in there. It is not that big of a classroom, and there were only 20 desks in the room in general. Like I said, class sizes are much smaller over here, or at least at this school. I think the enrollment at this campus is about 250 in K-12. So it is a very small school. I will be teaching every student in grades 6, 7, and 8. Something that I am not used to at all.

I did get to take a look at the text for the classes as well. They appeared to be good texts, I did not spend a great deal of time studying them, just brushed through them to get an idea of what I'll be covering this year. It appears that there is quite a bit of overlap for the three classes at times. That is good because I might be able to use the same lesson for more than one class. If not the whole lesson, I could at least use aspects of lessons for other classes. I'm not sure how creating plans for three seperate classes will work. It might be good and it might be a little overwhelming. I'll just have to wait and see.

I've been hanging out with the new teachers a lot, went out both Friday and Saturday night with them. Also met two returning teachers from Canada. I'm getting a very positive feel about all the teachers that I meet over here. After I think about, I would have to say that all the teachers I meet are going to be somewhat similar to me. I think it takes a certain type of person and personality to up and move to a different country to teach. I think it all the teachers here will have a lot in common. Plus, it seems that there are a lot of young teachers at this school, at least the ones I have seen so far.

Starting classes this Thursday. Get to meet my students. I'm pretty excited about that. Not nervous yet, but that may settle in later.