I just registered for Praxis II: Special Education Core Knowledge and Application on September 12th. My heart is racing, my blood is pumping, and my stomach is in knots! I have no idea why I'm so nervous. It might not have been such a great idea to register for a test that takes place at 5pm, but I really had no choice because I have plans for the two Saturday dates that were available for computer testing.
Today was our second day with a substitute and I taught even more today than yesterday (and I am exhausted!), which was awesome. I am sad to see the sub go, but SUPER RELIEVED to have my lead teacher back tomorrow. She is just so much better with student management than me at this point!
To celebrate my first completed week of student teaching, I sent an email to my supervisor with concerns about being percieved as an aide, rather than an intern. At the staff meeting, an item was discussed that brought on suggestions for me to give people bathroom breaks during yard duty (or if that was inconvienient, class time). I'm not against helping a sister out, but when I begin my full control take-over, bathroom breaking will cut into my personal prep time/lessons (they were not asking the other teachers to use their prep time to bathroom break, so why would they ask me?) annnnnd I will only be in my current classroom for ten weeks.
The larger issue, though, is that they are placing me on yard duty in order to cover them, which is illegal according to my interning agreement. What if they head to the bathroom and get locked in and while they're locked in the bathroom, something terrible like millions of injuries occur???? Also, I shouldn't be pulled from observations in the first week (or ever!) in order to run errands such as photo-copying, laminating, etc. or to give people a classroom break. I know their trip to the restroom would be short, but if I cannot substitute for other teachers, why would I be permitted to supervise their class alone for even a few minutes?
I tried explaining this to the staff at the meeting yesterday, so we'll see. I also asked for help from my advisor- hopefully she can write a good email that I can forward to the principal.... OR people could just read the manual I forwarded to them...
FYI (if you have no idea what I'm talking about): basically I'm saying that I can't really be anywhere my teacher isn't because of liability issues.
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