>I am so tired these days. I'm always struggling with making sure I know my material well enough for teaching (a problem when a lot of material has never been covered in my university program) and worrying what my mentor teacher thinks about it. Its soooo stressful its like auditioning for a job-everyday. You never…

>So today I finally activated the spam filtering service on my ualberta account. After six years of wondering how the hell spam bots were grabbing my email that is pretty much business/school and you know, not openly placed at free porn sites. Its weird how it took me that long to react to it. I…

>So I finished what the APT students call "callback", which is essentially a break from the practicum to touch base with everyone and see if anyone is considering a different career or giving up on their future ambitions. I was surpised by the responses. It ranged considerably- a few had some super positive responses and…

>OMG So today a few things happened. First off I am tired as hell. This practicum is pushing me off on all the wrong buttons, mostly on curriculum. I am having a grand time with the kids, but getting the curriculum across in a proper pace is killing me. I have no idea how much…

>So today I had a much better and productive lesson plan. It was with my Biology 10IB class, and the rapport was great and quite useful. I managed to get the kids finished on their labs and there was minimal trouble aside from broken glass and promises to write down student perpetrators names in my…