Field trip!
Nov. 19th, 2003 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI got to take a short excursion today, to observe a geometry class at Framingham High School. Just being out of the office was a welcome change. Little things about the high school surprised me: seeing a student in a head scarf in the cafeteria, how the greasy cafeteria smell is just the same as it was when I was in school, the murals painted on the walls in the ill-lit hallways (a copy of a Picasso, logos from plays and musicals, etc), how easy it was to get in (despite all the paperwork and offical stuff that had been implied). Also how anonymous I felt, an invisible non-teacher adult in school, completely extraneous.
It was a good class, the teacher motivated and knowledgeable, managing to get a huge amount done in 54 minutes. No chalkboard in this classroom, except at the back where the homework was listed; everything else was whiteboard (Colors easily used! No chalk dust! No clapping the erasers!). I observed the things I was supposed to (how the text was used, what technology was used, etc.), and tried to remember what I was like sophomore year in high school. I think I was a lot less ept than these kids.
It was a good class, the teacher motivated and knowledgeable, managing to get a huge amount done in 54 minutes. No chalkboard in this classroom, except at the back where the homework was listed; everything else was whiteboard (Colors easily used! No chalk dust! No clapping the erasers!). I observed the things I was supposed to (how the text was used, what technology was used, etc.), and tried to remember what I was like sophomore year in high school. I think I was a lot less ept than these kids.