My day
So I have a student teacher this quarter. She's incredible and does a fantastic job with the kids, and I have no qualms at all about leaving her along with the kids. The trick is, that also makes it easy to pull me out of the class room. On Monday I was off to a workshop in Spokane, and this morning at about 6:00 a.m. the sub caller rings up the house.
On a tangent, our district doesn't do a good job at all of paying substitutes. Spokane pays $120 a day for substitute teachers; we pay $86. When you figure in the money it takes to drive out from town, it's no surprise that we have a limited pool to draw from.
Anyhow, the sub caller calls. Two subs had called in with a case of the flu that's been going around the area, and on top of that two teachers called in because their own children were sick. The end result was that we needed 4 more subs in a hurry and there wasn't a single one available--would I be willing to teach 2nd grade today?
"Sure!" I said, because I'm that kind of guy. We also brainstormed some other ideas for what we could do (cancel Title, cancel Resource, cancel Library), but they were able to dig up a recent retiree who was willing to come in and cover 4th grade.
2nd grade is a world of difference from 1st, that's for sure. There's been no crying all day, they can tie their own shoes, and when I gave them a 40 minute writing assignment, for the most part, they did it with nary a complaint. I think I could get used to older kids, I really do.
On a tangent, our district doesn't do a good job at all of paying substitutes. Spokane pays $120 a day for substitute teachers; we pay $86. When you figure in the money it takes to drive out from town, it's no surprise that we have a limited pool to draw from.
Anyhow, the sub caller calls. Two subs had called in with a case of the flu that's been going around the area, and on top of that two teachers called in because their own children were sick. The end result was that we needed 4 more subs in a hurry and there wasn't a single one available--would I be willing to teach 2nd grade today?
"Sure!" I said, because I'm that kind of guy. We also brainstormed some other ideas for what we could do (cancel Title, cancel Resource, cancel Library), but they were able to dig up a recent retiree who was willing to come in and cover 4th grade.
2nd grade is a world of difference from 1st, that's for sure. There's been no crying all day, they can tie their own shoes, and when I gave them a 40 minute writing assignment, for the most part, they did it with nary a complaint. I think I could get used to older kids, I really do.
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