I have a university student job-shadowing me for about a month. Today was his first day; I think he’ll come back tomorrow, although he seemed pretty tired out by the end of the day. Which is sort of funny because he didn’t do any teaching today; he’s just observing for the first few days, and then he’ll start teaching maybe 1 or 2 periods per day. At the same time, though, it was a very hectic day; kids coming in at lunchtime and recess to take tests they missed, staff meetings, I had him correcting some tests, PLUS he drives in from an hour away every day. I think he was probably exhausted by the time he got home. I’ll bet by the end of his time with us, he’ll wish he had a Capresso coffee maker hooked up intraveinously.
This is the first time I’ve ever had anyone jobshadowing me so I’m probably just as nervous as he is; I worried the whole time I was teaching that I was boring, or that I wasn’t doing the Latest Thing in Teaching and that he was thinking “Umm… this is not how they taught us to do things at the University”. In which case I will fall over crying.
Anyway. Once a week my bff, C, the one who so generously offered up her uterus if ever we could afford surrogacy, comes over and we watch some Dexter and some Glee. And she is here now, which means that I should probably get off the computer and be sociable.