This is my third week at North Middle, and I am loving it. Middle schoolers aren't as terrifying as I first thought they would be. Actually, I don't know why I was so nervous to begin with. Before I started at the elementary school, I thought I wanted to work with middle schoolers. I think I'm back to that point now. This is the age I really learned how to teach while at UNI, but more importantly, I think this is the real reason I got into ESL in the first place.
I'm now teaching two groups of students, level 2 and level 3. I started working with level 3 on Monday. Because they just finished reading a novel (Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli), we're doing a short unit on reading strategies. While my unit is definitely not as motivating as reading a novel, the students have been very engaged and definitely have shown growth.
Today I started doing a unit on the book Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith with the level 2 kids. I'm with that class twice in the day, once in ESL reading (what I teach), and once in an ESL social studies class. This has really allowed me to get to know the students more. They seemed pretty excited for me to be teaching, and worked really hard on the activities we started today.
Next week I'll start teaching my third prep, level 4. We're going to do a unit on Greek Mythology. I'm mostly excited for the end of the unit, where they will write their own version of a mythological story. We'll see how it goes!
I'm still waiting for an interview with the possible job . . . I'm so excited to see where this will take me! Ready for the weekend and plenty of sleep. Getting to school at 7:30 is not my definition of fun!
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