No more tests!

I'm getting ready to start the fourth week of my internship...almost a month done! So far I've observed some lessons, visited an elementary school and a high school library, learned how to check books in and out, put books on hold for students, and I've taught a couple lessons on print reference resources (dictionaries, thesauruses, atlases, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.).

This coming week I'll teach more print reference lessons, teach a lesson on plagiarism, go to my first lunch time book club meeting, and have a conference call with the internship coordinator at FSU. There's also a teacher workday this week, so I'll get to see what goes on during a teacher workday too.

I took the Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment (VCLA) yesterday, and hopefully that's the last test I need to take in order to get a teaching license. The test took a lot longer than I thought it would, and I won't know if I passed it or not until approximately 2/18. Like with all of my Florida tests, when I finished they gave me an unofficial score report printout. Unfortunately, it was pretty much pointless, because the unofficial score report just said a percent of correct answers for the multiple choice sections. To pass, it's not based on having a certain percentage correct, you just need a combined score of 470 or greater. How the percentages correlate to points, I have no clue.

Internship - Week 1

I made it through the first week of my internship in one piece, and so far, it's going well. My schedule looks something like this:

Work: 6:30 or 6:45 am - 7:45 am
Internship: 8 am - 12 pm
Work: 12:15 pm - 7ish pm

This week I basically just started getting my feet wet, observing what's going on and helping out where I can. I also went to Potowmack Elementary on Friday to see what an elementary school library is like. Next Friday I'm scheduled to visit Potomac Falls High School to see what a high school library is like.