substitute? me??
Things have been going pretty well so far. Ben and I have the majority of our apartment complete with the exception of a TV. Our furniture is still pointing to a blank spot that now has two speakers up for the surround sound but no TV. It's expensive, we don't watch it too much, so the wait isn't so bad. I'm not that concerned really lol.
I really like Florida... but I miss everyone so much. I miss my girl nights, the chats, the junk food, the wine, the movies, all of that. I'm sad. I'm bored. Ben is great, we do have fun together but on days when I don't sub and he's at work- I'm bored! So I joined this website called hobbymatch.com and I'm hoping that will help me to meet people. I'm also planning on volunteering at the local dog shelter so I can get my dog time since I can't have one, and meet people as well.
Work should be a great way to meet people, but I'm in so many different schools that I don't have time to actually make relationships. Although, as I go along subbing, I'm taking off more schools that I want to work at and becoming more specific. I have only subbed a few days so far. I was hoping to sub today too but no luck. I get to choose the times they call me and it was 6:30 before but I'm going to switch that to 5:30 as well as start getting up at 5 so I'm ready to go. I think that's going to be my only choice for this coming week because of FCAT's. The only place I'll be able to sub at will be elementary for that week. As far as the subbing goes, it goes. I had one not good day, my first day, last week. It was in a middle school and it was only a half day. The first class I was there for, I was only there for the last 20 minutes when the teacher left. The next two had another teacher co-teaching in it, and the last was the advanced students. I figured that would be a breeze but no... let's just say the day did not end well and I don't think I'll be asked to come back any time soon.
The next day I was at a kindergarten and that went much better! It was a good time and I actually had fun. So after that I became brave and signed up for a middle school and high school for this week. The middle school was for Tuesday and I loved it! The schools atmosphere was so much different, the students listened and stayed on task, and the other teachers were great. I left them my resume in case they are ever in need of permanent subs because I would LOVE to teach there. I'd love to teach there on a permanent level but temporary would be great too.
Tomorrow I'm in a high school science class. It'll be interesting. I figure though with the FCAT's coming up that they will probably have a lot of test preparation to do. That's what the middle school math class I was in the other day had. The students take that test seriously, they majorly stress out about it. So I'm hoping for good behavior but I think I'm really starting to get a good discipline procedure down. It worked on the middle school once... I'd like to try again and again to be sure it worked before I try a high school but oh well. Now it's time to move to a high school and see if it works there. That's one thing great about subbing, my classroom management is greatly improving.
The only bad thing about teaching at a high school is because of how young I look. I am really REALLY hating how I get discriminated against because of my supposed age. People discredit my qualifications because of it and I'm sooo tired of it. Sales people don't pay attention to me because they figure I'm not going to buy anything. We were in a store the other day, waiting to ask for a TV we had been looking at and were probably going to buy. It was a busy day so we didn't mind waiting but we were passed over a few times. After an hour or so, we left. I'm still hoping it was because they were busy and did not see us and not because of how young we looked but who knows. Or well, how young I looked. It certainly wasn't Ben but I was the one waiting by the counter for a sales person to come by. Also, whenever we go into stores, we are ignored, not even said hello to, because they figure we aren't going to buy. Anyway, enough of that. There could be other things that I didn't see going on and that I'm just self conscious of how young I look (which I am). Give me a few years and then I'll look like I'm just out of college instead of just entering... oy.
So, me... a substitute. Who would have thought? Meek, mild, quiet me... taking control of a classroom of a rather hormonal group of teenagers?? Yeah sounds scary to me too but when I do sub it makes me realize how much I love teaching. I hope this helps me to land a real teaching job.
I really like Florida... but I miss everyone so much. I miss my girl nights, the chats, the junk food, the wine, the movies, all of that. I'm sad. I'm bored. Ben is great, we do have fun together but on days when I don't sub and he's at work- I'm bored! So I joined this website called hobbymatch.com and I'm hoping that will help me to meet people. I'm also planning on volunteering at the local dog shelter so I can get my dog time since I can't have one, and meet people as well.
Work should be a great way to meet people, but I'm in so many different schools that I don't have time to actually make relationships. Although, as I go along subbing, I'm taking off more schools that I want to work at and becoming more specific. I have only subbed a few days so far. I was hoping to sub today too but no luck. I get to choose the times they call me and it was 6:30 before but I'm going to switch that to 5:30 as well as start getting up at 5 so I'm ready to go. I think that's going to be my only choice for this coming week because of FCAT's. The only place I'll be able to sub at will be elementary for that week. As far as the subbing goes, it goes. I had one not good day, my first day, last week. It was in a middle school and it was only a half day. The first class I was there for, I was only there for the last 20 minutes when the teacher left. The next two had another teacher co-teaching in it, and the last was the advanced students. I figured that would be a breeze but no... let's just say the day did not end well and I don't think I'll be asked to come back any time soon.
The next day I was at a kindergarten and that went much better! It was a good time and I actually had fun. So after that I became brave and signed up for a middle school and high school for this week. The middle school was for Tuesday and I loved it! The schools atmosphere was so much different, the students listened and stayed on task, and the other teachers were great. I left them my resume in case they are ever in need of permanent subs because I would LOVE to teach there. I'd love to teach there on a permanent level but temporary would be great too.
Tomorrow I'm in a high school science class. It'll be interesting. I figure though with the FCAT's coming up that they will probably have a lot of test preparation to do. That's what the middle school math class I was in the other day had. The students take that test seriously, they majorly stress out about it. So I'm hoping for good behavior but I think I'm really starting to get a good discipline procedure down. It worked on the middle school once... I'd like to try again and again to be sure it worked before I try a high school but oh well. Now it's time to move to a high school and see if it works there. That's one thing great about subbing, my classroom management is greatly improving.
The only bad thing about teaching at a high school is because of how young I look. I am really REALLY hating how I get discriminated against because of my supposed age. People discredit my qualifications because of it and I'm sooo tired of it. Sales people don't pay attention to me because they figure I'm not going to buy anything. We were in a store the other day, waiting to ask for a TV we had been looking at and were probably going to buy. It was a busy day so we didn't mind waiting but we were passed over a few times. After an hour or so, we left. I'm still hoping it was because they were busy and did not see us and not because of how young we looked but who knows. Or well, how young I looked. It certainly wasn't Ben but I was the one waiting by the counter for a sales person to come by. Also, whenever we go into stores, we are ignored, not even said hello to, because they figure we aren't going to buy. Anyway, enough of that. There could be other things that I didn't see going on and that I'm just self conscious of how young I look (which I am). Give me a few years and then I'll look like I'm just out of college instead of just entering... oy.
So, me... a substitute. Who would have thought? Meek, mild, quiet me... taking control of a classroom of a rather hormonal group of teenagers?? Yeah sounds scary to me too but when I do sub it makes me realize how much I love teaching. I hope this helps me to land a real teaching job.