2/21

Today I asked Mr. R why he decided to go into teaching. His answer was not exactly what I had expected. As he began to tell me he wanted to make clear that at first what he had originally wanted to do was drive semi's, but his parents encouraged him to go into education. But he did not chose art until he began his pre-student teaching observations, because at the time those placements were not based on your content area but whatever placements were available. Throughout his education at UW-Eau Claire he was met with a lot of obstacles in his program including failing one of his student teaching placements. However his second placement was a lot better and he decided to stick with it.

Today I also observed the students entering the classroom and notice that they seem to have a good concept of what was needed for them to prepare for the class. The majority of the students came in, went to their designated seat to put down their backpacks, gathered their projects/materials needed and went back to their seats and waited for class to begin.