School Update
So! After two weeks of being a paid, full-time educator, I have:
-no students
-no classroom
-no schedule a schedule! That I personally designed, on three hours of sleep! That is nifty and has modified-block periods!
-no idea when classroom instruction will begin
-no idea when the building will be ready, how long I'll have to prepare my classroom, or where I'll be teaching classes for the first however-many days until the building is ready
-no clue when the students will show up a first-week schedule of "bonding" and "team-building" exercises, which is extra-awesome because I have figured out a way to exempt myself and S from the ropes course (by accompanying the groups of students who will be going to the homeless shelter for the (half) day of service) while still getting to actually meet the students before classes start (originally they told us we "didn't have to go" on these trips... so the students have Week 1 without ever seeing their teachers?!?! No thx!
-no access to classroom technology A SHINY LAPTOP. But still no class list or way to set up my gradebook. Also, I have figured out that my stupid pop mail client won't work with Thunderbird so I have to use Outlook because the webmail interface is THE DEVIL (oh well), and that the seemingly-nifty collaborative online lesson-planning software is secretly a giant pain in the ass. I have, however, used my bizzare Yahoo!Avatar as my "user picture" on it, because I did that at school and the filter blocks Google Image searches for Shakespeare (or anything else).
-bonded with my awesome HS faculty while earning the enmity of the MS faculty by arriving late, "working offsite" (no, really) at coffeehouses, taking two hour lunches, and crowding up the couches in the teachers' lounge by having NOTHING TO DO.
-pwn3d the copy machine on a number of occasions on behalf of teachers with actual copying to do.
-realized that I do, in fact, need to do laundry. Badly.
The Aind.
-no students
-no classroom
-no schedule a schedule! That I personally designed, on three hours of sleep! That is nifty and has modified-block periods!
-no idea when classroom instruction will begin
-no idea when the building will be ready, how long I'll have to prepare my classroom, or where I'll be teaching classes for the first however-many days until the building is ready
-no clue when the students will show up a first-week schedule of "bonding" and "team-building" exercises, which is extra-awesome because I have figured out a way to exempt myself and S from the ropes course (by accompanying the groups of students who will be going to the homeless shelter for the (half) day of service) while still getting to actually meet the students before classes start (originally they told us we "didn't have to go" on these trips... so the students have Week 1 without ever seeing their teachers?!?! No thx!
-no access to classroom technology A SHINY LAPTOP. But still no class list or way to set up my gradebook. Also, I have figured out that my stupid pop mail client won't work with Thunderbird so I have to use Outlook because the webmail interface is THE DEVIL (oh well), and that the seemingly-nifty collaborative online lesson-planning software is secretly a giant pain in the ass. I have, however, used my bizzare Yahoo!Avatar as my "user picture" on it, because I did that at school and the filter blocks Google Image searches for Shakespeare (or anything else).
-bonded with my awesome HS faculty while earning the enmity of the MS faculty by arriving late, "working offsite" (no, really) at coffeehouses, taking two hour lunches, and crowding up the couches in the teachers' lounge by having NOTHING TO DO.
-pwn3d the copy machine on a number of occasions on behalf of teachers with actual copying to do.
-realized that I do, in fact, need to do laundry. Badly.
The Aind.