I was observing 7th grade classes and it was a great experience. My time at Perry helped out a lot and the teacher that I was observing noticed that I was intimidated at all. The first class was ancient history. The teacher did a great job of keeping the students engaged the whole time. However, he didn't teach out of a book. Instead he taught them photo analysis, which will continue throughout the entire year. This was a great method of teaching because 1. I'm sure the kids have never been exposed to that before 2. It was different than reading text out of a book and 3. It was fun and interactive. Hell it was fun for me!
The next class I observed was math. Some of the kids were a little shaky in this area. I had to go back and work out the problems myself before helping them out because, let's be real, it has been years since I did that kind of work. But like riding a bike, it quickly came back and I was able to assist a group of girls with some problems. At lunch, I got to talk to a few kids, one who claimed I stole his name (he was named Mike too). He wanted me to call him Big Mike, and I said alright that's cool, but since I'm bigger than you, I'm Bigger Mike. He was diggin it, but in the classroom he still agreed to call me Mr. Mike. Yeah, authoritative figure. Right here. I met the mayor of D.C. during lunch and then my flagship team worked on earning our uniforms. We got a good deal accomplished and the day went by fairly quickly.
One of the negatives, I live 3 miles from my school. It took me about an hour to get to and from school on public transportation. Ugh. I'm considering driving. Oh and my lunch meat sucks. I can't wait to get food stamps!
P.S. Throwing out a big happy birthday to one of my best friends, Zack Myers. Happy 23rd bud. And a big up to my sister Anna for completing her last first day of classes at Penn St.
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