Friday, July 10, 2009

My 2nd Open Class

Last semester I had to do an open class after only teaching for a few weeks. I had no idea what I was doing. Sure, I had a lesson plan but the sheer terror and anxiety that surrounded the event was ridiculous. I feel like I probably blogged about this in September. This year was easy. It only took me an hour to design the lesson plan and write it up, not an agonizing week and a half. I spent all week working with my class, teaching them how to act around the parents and then 2 class periods doing lessons almost identical to the open class so they wouldn't freeze up (a common open class problem--or so I hear). It went really well. More parents showed up than had RSVP'd so I had to scramble for chairs last minute but other than that everything was okay. Now I have to wait until Monday for the inevitable parent feedback. I'd say I'm nervous only worrying about it won't change how they thought the lesson was so instead I will endeavor to forget it ever happened. Ugh. I'm really happy that it's Friday.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Mudfest. Basically it's 2 days of playing in the mud 2 hours south of here. I don't know much about it other than the fact that it was listed on my list of top 25 things to do in Korea (ala the Lonely Planet guide book). I need to pick up a cheap pair of shorts today that I can destroy since all of the ones I own are for work and I really can't ruin those.

Pictures and adventurous tales are coming soon!

5 comments:

Josh said...

Glad things went well. Enjoy getting muddy little one!!!! I'm only gonna be an hour out of sync with you, maybe I will give you a call..... So shoot me a message if u see me online, and i might be able to skype you!

Alex said...

Errr I won't be online this weekend but Monday for sure!

Josh said...

super cool kiddo! i'm flying home on the 19th

Nancy K said...

Any pictures of mudfest?

Alex said...

Yes, of course there will be mudfest photos but cut a girl some slack. Last night I vegged out in sweats and watched the 5th Harry Potter movie with Salsa Boy. Tonight there will be a good blog entry on the mudfest.