Today I got a good look at how sixth graders view professors! They had conjured up a picture of me in a white lab coat in a lab, mixing together chemicals that exploded and made my hair stand up on end! I explained to them that I wasn't a science professor, that I actually just taught teachers. How boring!
Now that we have our new configuration I'm more on my own than before, in a way. I'm working with a para to teach 1/3 of our class at a time. I think discipline should be a bit of an issue, even though they know me, because they know neither of us is a "real" teacher. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime it was difficult today to keep my firm rule about not contradicting a teacher in front of students. Unfortunately my partner did not keep that rule, and it was about a pronoun worksheet! I'll try to leave a bit earlier tomorrow to make sure we're on the same page. Respect in the classroom is really important to me -- teacher to teacher, teacher to student. Of course student to student is always a nice goal too--
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