Good habit? Bad habit? The jury is still out
So for a couple of days now i've been doing this late night typing thing on here and I have yet to decide whether or not it has been beneficial. Right now I'm leaning toward not as I seem to be getting a headache. And yet for some reason i'm still typing. Go figure.
Went down to my classroom today and was once again disheartened by the enormous amount of other people's things piled up in there. All of the things that were pointed out to me as being potentially mine seem to have another teacher's name and classroom on them which makes me wonder if they really are mine or if they are in actuality hers. And I was further disheartened by being unable to get the teacher's editions that I had been promised. I got the reading one, but none of the other subjects. In fact, I couldn't even find the regular student editions for math and social studies. A bit disconcerting.
I suppose I am jumping the gun somewhat as the kids don't come to school until the 14th and the first official day of work is actually the 7th, but I would just like to get things done or at least started. I guess for things to start feeling real for me I need to have a space and right now it's not so much a space as a junk heap - a dirty junk heap at that. Don't even get me started on how the floors look.
I guess I'm just impatient. And with this school apparently impatience is not a good thing judging by all the difficulty I had just getting the letter of intent taken care of. I mean hell, I still haven't signed the official contract or gotten my freaking drug test. I need some loose ends tied up. I need some straight answers. But mostly I just need other people's shit out of my way. But I would imagine that shoving it into the hallway would probably be taken as a sign of hostility.
It would probably be best to take Aiza's advice - go ahead and put up the bulletin boards and signs and such and then arrange the rest of the room around it. I am glad that she came down with me. It was good to talk to her about the potential room set up and I do feel like I have a better idea of how I want things to be arranged - even if I can't actually arrange them for some time yet. At least I did start making a list of some of the other things I will need. I don't know how much of it is grounded in reality but hey, there is always that classroom wishlist i keep hearing so much about. Who would have thunk that paying the way out of volunteer time would actually be such a good thing?
Went down to my classroom today and was once again disheartened by the enormous amount of other people's things piled up in there. All of the things that were pointed out to me as being potentially mine seem to have another teacher's name and classroom on them which makes me wonder if they really are mine or if they are in actuality hers. And I was further disheartened by being unable to get the teacher's editions that I had been promised. I got the reading one, but none of the other subjects. In fact, I couldn't even find the regular student editions for math and social studies. A bit disconcerting.
I suppose I am jumping the gun somewhat as the kids don't come to school until the 14th and the first official day of work is actually the 7th, but I would just like to get things done or at least started. I guess for things to start feeling real for me I need to have a space and right now it's not so much a space as a junk heap - a dirty junk heap at that. Don't even get me started on how the floors look.
I guess I'm just impatient. And with this school apparently impatience is not a good thing judging by all the difficulty I had just getting the letter of intent taken care of. I mean hell, I still haven't signed the official contract or gotten my freaking drug test. I need some loose ends tied up. I need some straight answers. But mostly I just need other people's shit out of my way. But I would imagine that shoving it into the hallway would probably be taken as a sign of hostility.
It would probably be best to take Aiza's advice - go ahead and put up the bulletin boards and signs and such and then arrange the rest of the room around it. I am glad that she came down with me. It was good to talk to her about the potential room set up and I do feel like I have a better idea of how I want things to be arranged - even if I can't actually arrange them for some time yet. At least I did start making a list of some of the other things I will need. I don't know how much of it is grounded in reality but hey, there is always that classroom wishlist i keep hearing so much about. Who would have thunk that paying the way out of volunteer time would actually be such a good thing?