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gillod
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 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject: Open class for a grade you've never taught? |
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I come in to school and a teacher I've never seen before says "November 26 you an' me open class". But for some reason they want me to do a 3rd grade lesson.
I've never taught 3rd grade. I do 4,5,6 and Afterschool lessons. I've never seen this teacher before. And now I'm supposed to give an open lesson for a grade level I have 0 experience with? Whatever.
So I go to ask my other teacher details about it and she won't tell me. Everyone like freezes up when I ask and gets tense. Is, "What date is it?" a terrible question to ask in public around here? Then she takes me aside and says "Later we talk about it not now".
Has anyone had anything like this happen before? I'm completely befuddled. I'll probably use one of my Afterschool lessons for it. I'm not really worried, it's just like. Why? |
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egrog1717
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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My school did the same thing... My old co-teacher had English training over the summer, but when she came back they stuck her into a grade 3 homeroom position... I teach 3s with another teacher once a week...
So naturally I have to teach an open class for district reps and new NSETs with a teacher I havn't worked with in 8 months who no longer teaches English... LOL |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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There's basically two kinds of open lessons. First you need to distinguish what kind of open lesson it is before doing anything
School Inspection Open Lesson- This simple means that your school is being inspected by the local board of Education. For these several men/women will arrive is suits. They are more concerned with administarative documents than actual teaching. They will go to your school for a half day. First they will look through random documents, then there will be a period where they go from class to class. They spend between ten to twenty minutes in each class.
If it's this kind of Open Lesson don't sweat it. There's a good chance the people visiting your school won't even notice if you're students are doing listen and repeat from" Mein Kamf"
The other kind is the dog and poney act. Since you haven't practiced it much I'm assuming you are doing a school inspection Open lesson |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
There's basically two kinds of open lessons. First you need to distinguish what kind of open lesson it is before doing anything
School Inspection Open Lesson- This simple means that your school is being inspected by the local board of Education. For these several men/women will arrive is suits. They are more concerned with administarative documents than actual teaching. They will go to your school for a half day. First they will look through random documents, then there will be a period where they go from class to class. They spend between ten to twenty minutes in each class.
If it's this kind of Open Lesson don't sweat it. There's a good chance the people visiting your school won't even notice if you're students are doing listen and repeat from" Mein Kamf"
The other kind is the dog and poney act. Since you haven't practiced it much I'm assuming you are doing a school inspection Open lesson |
And if it is a school inspection lesson, it'll probably be even shorter. I've had school inspection lessons at my school twice in the past year. The inspector lingered for about a minute both times.
There is a third type of class, although you might not call it an open class technically, where a SMOE rep or another government rep comes to check you out. Both times they came to my school, they stayed for about a minute each time as well, so don't sweat it.
If you have a legitimate open class where the parents will be coming by to observe as well as other teachers from neighboring schools, then you need to choreograph your lesson and your movements with the coteacher. Let her lead and you be the English parrot. That's what everyone wants to see. Oh, and if you are teaching a group of students you've never had before, it should be good: they'll be on their best behavior as they'll be slightly awestruck. I'd find out before class who the stronger students are as a precaution. |
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