I went to the Europaschule today (the practice school where my students practice teaching).\u00a0 I had plans to finish up the lesson from last week, which involved differences and stereotypes about the U.S. and Austria.\u00a0 The teacher was supposed to email me about what we would do after that, but he never did.\u00a0 Something possessed me to prepare something just in case, so at the last minute, I did.\u00a0 And it was a good thing I did, too.<\/p>\n
I went to the school a bit early to see if I could talk to Christian (the teacher) before the lesson.\u00a0 I wasn’t even sure if he was still expecting me because he had never emailed.\u00a0 I get there and ask a woman in the teachers’ office if he would be coming soon and I discover that he’s giving a presentation at the teacher college, so he won’t be coming.\u00a0 Hmm, good to know.\u00a0 So he’s not there and I prepare to leave.\u00a0 But, the woman reminds me that there’s a second teacher that works with that group, so the class is not canceled.<\/p>\n
I decide to wait around a bit to explain to the second teacher (Regina) that I was supposed to have class with Christian and ask her if she would like me to stay.\u00a0 She informs me that Christian told her that I would be teaching the whole lesson!\u00a0 I tell her that I was not aware of this.\u00a0 She tells me that she has nothing prepared, so I tell her that I have something I could do.\u00a0 So I do it.\u00a0 It goes okay, I guess.<\/p>\n
Regina also decided we should end five minutes early for reasons I didn’t understand, which was weird because I wasn’t quite finished with the lesson.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe she was looking at a different clock?\u00a0 I was also hoping I could speak with her afterward about what I could have done better, but she simply said goodbye to me and left.<\/p>\n
It was weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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