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Sep. 17th, 2021 01:17 amIt's been my second Thursday at school, and I survived it, so maybe I do remember how to do all of this.
(Thursday and Friday are the two days where I see all five of my classes. On Thursday this happens "in a row" --three hours/classes, half an hour lunch, two more hours/classes. It is...a lot. Teaching is the best part of my job, so like, that part is gonna make me vaguely happy, but it's _so much_ in a row.)
Of course, maybe I should not be too smug until I survive tomorrow too. Fridays are my only day where I don't have a prep period first thing, which means in addition to teaching all five classes in a row on Thurs, I also need to afterwards ensure that I've prepared lessons for the following day, because the alternative is arriving at the school at like seven, which is -let's be clear- not really happening.
On the flip side, Fridays are going to return to being Friday Review days for at least my Algebra class, which is much _much_ easier for me because it's just...have the kids work fairly independently so I can see what they've learned. Less prep work too --I don't have to come up with as many activities or whatever.
At any rate, my schedule this year is _hard_ and exacerbated by everything else being really hard and weird, especially/including that we are still in the middle of a fucking pandemic and efforts there are kinda depressing. On the plus side, some of my kids mention being vaccinated. On the negative side, I highly doubt it's all of them, and don't have a good way of finding out, and blah blah, breakthroughs regardless.
I'm trying to stay positive though? I don't know, it is _really_ nice to be doing the part of my job I love, I just...wish there was a little less of it? I wish I didn't have classes of 22 English learners, I wish I wasn't seeing six or seven absences a class (you'd think those two facts would cancel each other out, but no, it definitely makes them worse because now we have to do catchup), I wish I didn't have a shittily arranged schedule so that I _always_ teach both my different classes before my second prep and therefore don't have anything to do with said prep on the days I have it...
My goal this weekend should be to catch up with grading, because wooooeee, I have started to slip behind. Shocking no one, forever.
At least there's no teacher food in the cafeteria and the copiers in my wing are still broken?
~Sor
MOOP!
(Thursday and Friday are the two days where I see all five of my classes. On Thursday this happens "in a row" --three hours/classes, half an hour lunch, two more hours/classes. It is...a lot. Teaching is the best part of my job, so like, that part is gonna make me vaguely happy, but it's _so much_ in a row.)
Of course, maybe I should not be too smug until I survive tomorrow too. Fridays are my only day where I don't have a prep period first thing, which means in addition to teaching all five classes in a row on Thurs, I also need to afterwards ensure that I've prepared lessons for the following day, because the alternative is arriving at the school at like seven, which is -let's be clear- not really happening.
On the flip side, Fridays are going to return to being Friday Review days for at least my Algebra class, which is much _much_ easier for me because it's just...have the kids work fairly independently so I can see what they've learned. Less prep work too --I don't have to come up with as many activities or whatever.
At any rate, my schedule this year is _hard_ and exacerbated by everything else being really hard and weird, especially/including that we are still in the middle of a fucking pandemic and efforts there are kinda depressing. On the plus side, some of my kids mention being vaccinated. On the negative side, I highly doubt it's all of them, and don't have a good way of finding out, and blah blah, breakthroughs regardless.
I'm trying to stay positive though? I don't know, it is _really_ nice to be doing the part of my job I love, I just...wish there was a little less of it? I wish I didn't have classes of 22 English learners, I wish I wasn't seeing six or seven absences a class (you'd think those two facts would cancel each other out, but no, it definitely makes them worse because now we have to do catchup), I wish I didn't have a shittily arranged schedule so that I _always_ teach both my different classes before my second prep and therefore don't have anything to do with said prep on the days I have it...
My goal this weekend should be to catch up with grading, because wooooeee, I have started to slip behind. Shocking no one, forever.
At least there's no teacher food in the cafeteria and the copiers in my wing are still broken?
~Sor
MOOP!