My new classes
Hi all. I've been busy lately and this site is blocked in school. Since I haven't been posting lately, I'll let you know what's up with me.
I'm teaching 12th grade Brit lit and three writing classes at Woodbridge HS. My morning writing class is 9th grade, and in the afternoon I have an 11th grade class. I'm ecstatic about how goods my students are, and how interesting the curriculum is. It's a performance art school, so it's sort of my dream job.
Well, there was quiet a misadventure that went along with my first week on the job. You see, besides having the four preps I have now (preps are different classes, thus another class to prepare for), I had five. But the fifth class was AP English. Well, AP English is very demanding to teach, and I don't see how they would give it to anyone who is already teaching four other preps, but giving it to a new teacher at the school, coming from a middle school, well that's just insanity.
It's funny, b/c I think I actually got out of teaching it with a very political move on my part, but that wasn't really my intention. You see, we had an in service day for English teachers at a different HS in the county. Well, I told a bunch of people my predicament, besides all the people at Jay's school, also in the county. People were offering me all kinds of help, which was great, but I still thought - why not just give me a schedule so I'm not doomed for failure?
So that night, Anne, my dept head calls and says she's arranged for someone else to take my AP class. It involved messing with the kids schedules, but it worked out b/c the person who got my schedule already has two APs and thus he has no new preps.
So, I suppose spreading this around the county worked to my advantage. It goes to show you that being bold and sneaky can pay off, but in my case, it was just my inability to keep my mouth shut.
Anyhoo...my students are soooo amazing. The freshman class of writers is almost all girls. They are the romantic type and keep writing about "heartbreak." It's really cute, and they're adorable and very supportive.
My older groups are must more jaded, and I have theater and sci-fi geeks.
Since I'm a geek too, I seem to bond with them. I don't really know how much luckier I could get in terms of having awesome students!
So..I'm happy. (yeah, I've been bummed about some other things, but I think it's my gloomy nature.) I'm determined to overcome that though.
I'm writing my lesson plans and so I plan to take the weekend off and just have some fun!
I'm teaching 12th grade Brit lit and three writing classes at Woodbridge HS. My morning writing class is 9th grade, and in the afternoon I have an 11th grade class. I'm ecstatic about how goods my students are, and how interesting the curriculum is. It's a performance art school, so it's sort of my dream job.
Well, there was quiet a misadventure that went along with my first week on the job. You see, besides having the four preps I have now (preps are different classes, thus another class to prepare for), I had five. But the fifth class was AP English. Well, AP English is very demanding to teach, and I don't see how they would give it to anyone who is already teaching four other preps, but giving it to a new teacher at the school, coming from a middle school, well that's just insanity.
It's funny, b/c I think I actually got out of teaching it with a very political move on my part, but that wasn't really my intention. You see, we had an in service day for English teachers at a different HS in the county. Well, I told a bunch of people my predicament, besides all the people at Jay's school, also in the county. People were offering me all kinds of help, which was great, but I still thought - why not just give me a schedule so I'm not doomed for failure?
So that night, Anne, my dept head calls and says she's arranged for someone else to take my AP class. It involved messing with the kids schedules, but it worked out b/c the person who got my schedule already has two APs and thus he has no new preps.
So, I suppose spreading this around the county worked to my advantage. It goes to show you that being bold and sneaky can pay off, but in my case, it was just my inability to keep my mouth shut.
Anyhoo...my students are soooo amazing. The freshman class of writers is almost all girls. They are the romantic type and keep writing about "heartbreak." It's really cute, and they're adorable and very supportive.
My older groups are must more jaded, and I have theater and sci-fi geeks.
Since I'm a geek too, I seem to bond with them. I don't really know how much luckier I could get in terms of having awesome students!
So..I'm happy. (yeah, I've been bummed about some other things, but I think it's my gloomy nature.) I'm determined to overcome that though.
I'm writing my lesson plans and so I plan to take the weekend off and just have some fun!