First few days of school...

After what seemed like a very short month off, the MAC program is back in full gear. While I am more busy than ever, I am excited about these next few months as I will be finally in the classroom! My first days of observing students and my mentor teacher have been very informative. I have already begun to see how my mentor teacher's approach towards her students really seems to work with kids that would often be misbehaving or totally disinterested in school. She really works hard at being excited and enthusiastic about whatever she is teaching. This may be easy in some course (like Theater) where the students already have an interest in the topic, but she brings this same amount of enthusiasm to an English course. I can see the students really connecting with her as she tells personal stories, makes fun of herself, and gets the students to really understand why each lesson is important to their lives. She seems so comfortable commanding a classroom, and I hope that with some experience, I will begin to feel the same way.
It should be an exciting year!!!