Vist it East Pennsboro on January 8th

Well, it was a little disappointing that there was no snow delay on Friday, but at the same time I did appreciate the experience of a full day at school. My co-op does not have a class 1st period (that is her planning period), so when I got there (around 7:15), we left her room to do hall duty at 7:20. 1st period starts at 7:30; there is no homeroom. So, I went over to the other FCS room to observe a foods class; one student did a presentation on Sodium, and then the class watched and discussed a clip taped off of NBC on food portion sizes in America. For 2nd period, my co-op, Sherry, came over to the foods classroom to teach her family relationships class; there were supposed to be 3 presentations completed during this class, but all 3 presenters were absent. So, Sherry showed a movie on cultural communication and then the class discussed it. We went back over to Sherry's room for her 3rd-5th period child development classes. Tuesday-Thursday, there is a preschool lab school from 11:00-2:15; on Mondays, Sherry teaches child development content, and on Fridays the child development classes discuss things that the preschoolers did during the week and how to help them continue to improve developmentally. So on Friday, periods 3-5 were almost entirely discussion. There are only 5 class periods during the school day; so at 2:30, when students were dismissed, Sherry gave me a tour of the building.

The "exciting" part of the day was when a few students started a fight outside of Sherry's classroom between 3rd and 4th periods. Sherry's room is right by the cafeteria, so on their way from lunch to class, a student threw a water bottle at someone else and people started pushing others into the wall and nearby lockers. Two of the students involved were actually in Sherry's 4th period child development class, so before class started, she had to escort them down to the principal's office. Breaking up fights is probably one of the things about teaching that I dread the most. I appreciated that it was not my responsibility to intervene on Friday. Although, the way Sherry handled the situation, made it look very easy. She asked both of her students to step into the hallway with her, where she quickly got their sides of the story, and then took them down to the principal's office because more than just her students were involved. I hope that should I ever be in Sherry's position, I would be able to handle it as quickly, efficiently, and fairly as Sherry did.