Surprisingly, our students were kind of calm and quiet today (except the ones who are Never quiet or calm). I think they were really tired because their bodies were used to sleeping in. Nice for me, considering I was also tired from getting up so early.
Ended the day with a little happy hour fun and some book shopping with a teaching friend who randomly greeted me on the subway commute this morning and set our after work-plans into motion.
Here's to the rest of the week with calm kids. ...O and to not missing anymore preps. I think I've missed 6 in the last 20 days of school. (For those outside the city, that means no one shows up to teach your kids during your planning time. No planning time is not my favorite time. Hmmm, I never really dealt with the issue before. Now, having no one show up doesn't surprise me.)
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Glad your day went well!
Ok, I'm confused by the whole preps thing. I'm assuming you have the same group of kids with you all day long...don't they go to specials classes (PE, art, music, etc.)? That should be your prep, no?
Prep is the planning time. The kids go to their specials (or, in our case, most of the specials teachers come to our classroom). The teacher was a no show... They get made up, eventually. But usually without warning, someone shows up and wants us to stop what we are doing to make up our special. (Kind of hard when you are in the zone... with plans already set.)
Aren't the specials teachers regular employees just like you? How can they constantly be 'no-shows'? It seems like they would run out of leave.
I'm just curious about this because I see so many NYC teachers complain about lack of prep coverage, so I know it's not just your school. I can't understand how an entire system can neglect to plan for teacher's prep periods.
The teachers don't show up for various reasons. Usually they are at the school, just doing something else. We had multiple days of missed planning time because the teacher who was supposed to come in was covering for some testing stuff. Many of the teachers that cover our class do random things during the specials time (not your normal music, computers, etc.). They sometimes come in and ask us what they are supposed to do... (Another responsibility thrown on us, despite the fact that we are not supposed to be planning what these teachers do during specials!)
I'm not sure what happened the other day, because I checked the list of people who were absent, and she wasn't on it. I have yet to run into her to find out what happened.
Wow. Just wow. Once again, my hat is off to you.
Maybe you should consider being a specials teacher...sounds like a MUCH easier job than what you're doing. ;-)
Welcome back then. My kids have been lovely so far. It seems almost like they are growing up all at once. Or is it my perspective that has changed?
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