My first week at Sahali Secondary was really nice. It is amazing how much you can learn in one short week. I am always surprised how similar yet different secondary schools can be. The largest difference between North Kamloops secondary and Sahali is the addition of grade 8 and 9s. I taught my first lesson in a grade 9 classroom this week and it was quite an eye-opener. In my previous practicum, I successfully taught a very challenging grade 10 workplace math class that had 7 IEP’s. The extremely well-behaved grade 9 class that I taught this week was more challenging. Although they were really well behaved and had minimal behavioral issues they are simply louder and energetic as a group. This has shifted my goals for next week as I realized how different managing junior classes is from managing the senior classes. In this coming week, when I am not teaching, I want to try to observe grade 9 students in as many classroom environments as possible. I want to take note of the classroom management strategies different teachers take to manage this energy and volume. I will be teaching my final lesson on Friday so I hope that by then I will have an improvement on my approach to teaching junior grades.