Amy’s HS Block Blog

I walked around to three or four different classrooms before I even found a teacher who was in the room and staying there for the period! I realize special ed teachers have a lot of obligations outside the classroom, but I have to wonder about the difficulties of teaching a class that is likely already having problems in the subject area when added to having a teacher who isn’t there. I finally settled down in the classroom of my cooperating teacher, who we at least knew to be present today. He was teaching/reviewing the distributive property with that class. He made many “aside” comments to me as he went through the lesson, noting his usually sparing use of sarcasm and his hall pass allowance for his students, among other things. I’m having trouble thinking of a lot to say about that experience this morning but I’m back in that class after lunch and many more times this semester so I’m sure I’ll make up for it by the time this is all over…