This week I have noticed how crazy it can be when you have absolutely nothing prepared to teach for the entire day, your MT calls in sick and the substitute teacher that you get sits on her phone or reads her book the entire time in the back of the room! However, I have also noticed how nice it is to be the 'lead' teacher and be the one to make the decisions. Every time I sub, it makes me want to be a teacher even more! Today was a very hectic day but at the same time good because I learned that I can run around and make lessons on the spur of the moment and still do a good job teaching my students. I also learned that I can handle 30 students all by myself...something that has worried me! We have a lot of prep at MSU from our courses however, one thing that I felt like lacked was a class on classroom management. However, now I think I may have noticed why MSU doesn't spend much time teaching that..because it is something we will without a doubt learn during our internship year.
Overall, with this experience of my MT calling in sick, I learned how important it is as a future teacher to ALWAYS have sub plans ready to go along with your lesson plans for the day. I think that the day would have gone much smoother if copies would have already been made in the sub book that my MT is supposed to be using. I think it is important because the sub (if I would not have been there) would have not known what to do and she would have been alone with the students with no one to go make any copies. I think that this is a case of being prepared for the unexpected. You never know when you are going to get sick or have a personal day come up therefore, you should always PREPARE for the unexpected. Overall, I can definitely say that this internship is teaching me to not only be flexible but be ready to jump into anything without a notice! :)
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