School, Snow

More details of my frist week,
After my 8 hours of windowless class on Monday, I had a pretty short day Tuesday. I worked at my NYU Athletics job at Coles for a few hours and then went to my Spanish class. The class is good because I have it with my friend and suite mate Dasha but its terrible because its going to be the hardest class ever. The class is about reading literature and poetry and stuff and analyzing it and writing about it. The would be lame anyway but all this reading, discussing, and writing is in Spanish :( I would never take this class but its a requirement to take the other classes I need to have a Spanish minor, which I still might do.
So that was all for Tuesday :D I will babysit on some Tuesdays later on this semester.

Today was my first day of student teaching!
I'm at a wonderful school in Brooklyn. PS 10. Its actually pretty close to the school I was at last semester.
We met with the principal this morning and she told us all the awesome stuff the school has been doing to improve over the past few years. It was just an average school but a few dedicated teachers and the old pricipal applied for lots off grants and now its an amazing school that everyone wants to go to. It is a barrier free school which means that is is completely acceceable for anyone with limited mobility (think wheelchairs). They have the most beautiful library that I've ever seen in a school... or maybe anywhere. Its really nice.
I'm in whats called a Collaborate Team Teaching Class, or CTT.  Basically this is a class with one general education teacher and one special education teacher but around the same number of students. Up to 40% of the students in the class are in special education. This is a really innovative setup that I have always been really interested.
Quick Lesson:  Special Education is a service, not a place. Students are required by law to be in the general education curriculum as much as possible with any need supports. This is called the Least Restrictive Environment. So this is a really good way to do that!

In this classroom, the kids are completely integrated. The kids with special ed services are never separated from the others. I was there all day and I have no idea which kids are in what category! I'll learn because I can look at their records.
So there are 2 teachers, like I said, Sarah and Jimmy. They are so nice! They were really welcoming and enthusiastic. I absolutely love the way they work together and teach the students.
Oh and its a 2nd grade class.

After being in student teaching all day, I had 2 other classes- Teaching Elementary School Math and Language and Reading Instruction. The amount of work we have to do for those two classes is unreal.

Tomorrow I have Spanish again and then my first day of babysitting.
Also its snowing a lot.
Wish me luck!