Today my teacher only had 3 class periods – 11th, 12th, and 8th grades. I taught the 11th grade class about the Progressive Era in the United States. I think that it went well, the students had some great questions and seemed interested in the topic. The 12th graders gave presentations on government. The 8th graders have a test later this week so they worked on reviewing information on geography in North and South America. I’m looking forward to teaching more in the 10th and 11th grade classes, since the other classes will be doing presentations for most of my time here.
Some other observations from my second day of school:
-They do not speak English or Spanish, they speak Spanglish. Everything is a mixture of the two. For example they might say: Canada is bigger than the U.S. pero less people y cities. My teacher explained that they just use whichever word comes to mind first whether it is Spanish or English. I am glad I already know some Spanish!
-I learned that the majority of my students come from very wealthy families. They all have iPhones and macbooks.
-The teachers described Saint Thomas as kind of a soccer boot camp. Soccer is a huge deal.
-My students are all part of facebook groups where they can communicate with the teacher. She posts all of their assignments and powerpoints so that they can access them from home. I would love to be able to do this in my classroom at home, but everyone there is so afraid of using technology such as facebook as part of school.
Overall, I think today went very well. After school we had another delicious dinner, went swimming, and a few of us went out for a snack at a local restaurant.
Miss Hanel's Student Teaching Blog 
I hope you are offered the opportunity to also teach in a public school here! Vastly different.
Somewhat unfortunately we are not able to teach in a public school. I must say that even the private school I am at is very different from the school I taught at in Michigan.