Thursday morning I definitely taught a lesson I should not have (and I knew I wasn't supposed to before the class start), but I figured I would just play ignorant until someone noticed. No one noticed. I am not supposed to teach a class unless there is a teacher who has that period free so I can go to them if I need something (a fight, discipline, problem, etc.). There was no teacher available for the first hour, and the plan was to just stick the students in other classrooms (although often times no one comes to distribute them so they just sit alone in the classroom). I figured, what is the difference if these kids are alone in the classroom completely unsupervised or an un-liscensed foreigner is entertaining them. I had the lesson plans done anyway, so I decided I would just start teaching the lesson and if someone came to disburse them then I'd just stop. However, no one ever came (which I had a feeling would happen as long as I closed the door and maintained control of the classroom).
I'd prefer to think of it as independence, perhaps confidence, although my blatant defiance is rather comical in my opinion. I have no qualms justifying that it is better that I just teach them versus having me observe in the back of another classroom when I know the material and already have a lesson plan. Otherwise, the kids would have gone the day without English class and things could have easily gotten out of hand. The kids don't know whether there is a teacher I can go to or not each period, and I figured if they left in that 6th grade class in inner-city GR (where the fight broke out!), this was entirely do-able. Haha, some kids show defiance with drugs or alcohol, I just spread knowledge when I am not supposed to. My ED professors would be so proud.
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