My second day of fieldwork was a really strange day. I had not been to the school the week before due to a holiday and I had been informed that because there was a student teacher also working with my teacher, that it was not an ideal situation for me and I would be switched, again. You take it in stride, but what's really going through your head is, now I have to do my first day all over again. My new placement teacher was James Reyes, he shared the room with my previous placement teacher, so I had actually already met him briefly. He had never had a fieldwork student before and this made me a little nervous. While talking with him it seemed clear that he was very open to and interested in my ideas, which was fantastic because that doesn't always happen. However, there were also times where I felt lacking in direction. I decided that it was best to just address that problem by asking him what he thought when I shared with him my ideas, as this is exactly what he would ask me when he told me what he was going to teach that day. Doing this basically set up the dynamic for the rest of my time there. As this was his first time teaching this course, and this was my first time really working with high school students, we were learning from each other and this was something I had never experienced before in fieldwork. I didn't realize it at that moment, but I was extremely fortunate.
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