Fish Bowl

Have you ever felt like you were in a fish bowl and that a lot of people were staring and watching you. Well, I had that experience this week at work. I received an e-mail on Monday telling me that about fifteen administrators from across the district would be in my room on Wednesday afternoon to observe. What they were there to observe I wasn't told, and I still don't know. They came in right before my last class started on Wednesday. Since that's one of my small classes, there were more administrators in the room than students. I have to admit that I was quite nervous about it. It's really hard to act normal and natural when there are a lot of people watching you when you don't know why. I even had a couple students comment that they were nervous too. One students said out loud in front of all of them, "I can't work with all these people in here." The good thing is, that I couldn't have picked a better day for them to come observe. I had the students working on a survey project and acted great. It looked like a perfect assignment. The students were applying math into a real life situation, they were graphing, calculating , and even writing about their discoveries. What's weird is even now I have no clue why they were there. I haven't heard a thing back from anyone. I guess I couldn't have done too bad or I would have heard for sure.