2 wk. Practicum

I did my 2 weeker at Elgin Park in White Rock, and couldn't have had a better time. Right from the start, both my sponsors introduced me to their classes and made me feel welcome. There was a staff meeting on my 2nd day, and the principal introduced me to the rest of the faculty. They gave me total reign throughout the school and I could come and go from any classes as I pleased. It was pretty fantastic. I got to see quite a few different teachers and different subject areas, and talked to a few TOC's that happened to be in the school while I was there. As for the acutal teaching, the kids were great as well, White Rock is a pretty affluent area so there weren't very many problems, other than students trying to use cell phones in class. A few things i liked about what my PE sponsor did especailly was that she used attendance rows at the start of class to do attendance super quick and get the kids out and being active as fast as she could. All the students knew what row to be in and in what order so she could just look at the row and determine who was present. Another thing that she did was she had a 3 stars of the day thing for her classes, where everyone would slap their thighs and make a bunch of noise and she would pick out 3 people who went above and beyond in class that day. The kids all really enjoyed it, and they got a bonus mark that day for being one of the 3 stars. I dont really have anything negative to say about the experience, it was all pretty good. The only thing that was kind of negative was I got to experience the boringness of a staff meeting.