A celebrity of sorts

On Wednesday, I team taught with an elementary school homeroom teacher. It was supposed to be a class opened for observation. When I was first asked to do this, I thought it would be like other classes opened for observation, meaning that there would be about 10-20 teachers from other schools watching.

I was really happy to see that the homeroom teacher made a lot of effort into planning the whole lesson himself. In his lesson plan, there were many parts where he included duties and speaking roles for me, so I felt that it was an actual partnership.

I also saw that he put in a lot of preparation for that one lesson with all the props used for the class. In the back of my mind, I was thinking "you know...in reality, it's hard to have that kind of prep time for all lessons."

Then, about three days before the actual lesson, I realized why. Instead of the usual 10-20 teachers observing our class, there would be 300. Because there is a teacher there who formerly taught English at the junior high level to lead the team, our elementary was chosen as the "model school" for the new initiative to teach English. This was supposed to be an "example" of sorts for other schools.

So, on the day of the lesson, aside from having packs of people in the gym where we taught, there were also cameras about 10 inches from my face while I was teaching. Not cool.

Apparently, it was on the news and a bunch of the students at my junior high saw it. Super not cool.

It's been two days and they're still talking about it.

For some reason, people keep praising me as though I had a big part in it. Weird.