A rather busy day today. Went to school at 8, to be in time for a lesson observation with one of the bio teachers at 8.30. The same lab lesson I had observed with yet another bio teacher last week on Thursday, it was nice to see the difference in teaching between the two teachers. This time, everything was explained step by step however, in the end more was expected from the students. This lab lesson really took me back to analist school - pippets, yeast solution - enzymes joy. Nice to help out here and there :D. After an hour I sneaked out and went to observe Lena's lab lesson, with her Swedish class she was dissecting sheep organs today (trachea / lungs / heart / diaphragm / liver and kidneys). Even though the groups are split in two sessions and therefore one session only has about 8 students, it is a good thing to be with two teachers. One can stand at each table (four students working per organ set), might a student get unwell, there is an adult in the room to take care of the student. Today however, they were allright, only one learner had to sit down. The practice was planned for an hour, to make sure students would not get bored, Lena put up a set of experiments for students to check out after being done exploring the organs (couple of neurological tests like cold-hot water difference feeling, knee reflex, visual test). Most learners however were fascinated by the organs and took most of the lesson cutting up and looking at the different parts.
Between the two lessons, there was an hours break in which I managed to do two interviews! Lena provided me with three teachers' names that are involved in organizing extra curricular activities outside the science department (as I pretty much have spoken to everyone in the science department involved in extra curricular activities by know) and although I only had three days left, I took my chances and emailed all of them. So, two I got to interview in the hours break (ofcourse I also had to eat some lunch and therefore was late for the lesson, already informed Lena, no problems there). The next interview I will do tomorrow! Talk about _smooth_, this is awesome :D.
After the second lamb dissection lesson, I shortly discussed tomorrows lesson preparation with Lena and that was it for today.
I payed a last visit to the el cheapo tea store where I went last week and cycled back through a park which in the Netherlands could (and would) be called a forest.
Now, my lessons are prepared, topics being DNA and inheritance for Cecilia's class pre-IB class, and hormones - sex determination and male & female reporductive organs for Lena's IB class (yeah.. great thing to end with.. well, whatever :D).
Got my bag loaded with drop to treat the students at the end and thank them for giving me the opportunity to teach them, tomorrow's my last day with lessons. It feels weird to say goodbye after such a short period of time!
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