More First Week Chaos
Workday - 7:30am-5:30pm
Ugh. Tuesdays are so tiring.
Today my careers class got kicked out of our classroom mid-way through the period. Another teacher came to reclaim his room, and while the students started packing up and moving towards the door I had to rush to stop them. We had nowhere to go! Fortunately, this other teacher (who didn't have any students to move in there quite yet) then left to talk to the vice principal about which room my class could have. Well, that ordeal ate up some time. Plus the new classroom had the exact same layout as the old one, so I didn't even have to make up a new seating plan! Then after school I finally got a key to that room, and now I'm set.
Then in one of the math classes, a new student showed. That, in itself, wasn't unexpected or unusual. Unfortunately, the department has run out of textbooks for that course. I was actually lucky to get the ones I did! I knew they had ordered more, but I wasn't sure if we'd see them within the next two weeks. After class, I went and photocopied about five sections out of the book for the guy (and after he took those, I stayed and photocopied about five more). When I went back to the math office, I found two of the grade 9 textbooks sitting on an empty desk. I asked the math head if they were claimed, and he told me I could take them! Sheesh. I wish I'd known they were there before I spent 20 minutes at the photocopier.
Tomorrow I teach all three classes in a row right from 8:45, so I have to get this prep work done now or never. This day just gets even longer!
Ugh. Tuesdays are so tiring.
Today my careers class got kicked out of our classroom mid-way through the period. Another teacher came to reclaim his room, and while the students started packing up and moving towards the door I had to rush to stop them. We had nowhere to go! Fortunately, this other teacher (who didn't have any students to move in there quite yet) then left to talk to the vice principal about which room my class could have. Well, that ordeal ate up some time. Plus the new classroom had the exact same layout as the old one, so I didn't even have to make up a new seating plan! Then after school I finally got a key to that room, and now I'm set.
Then in one of the math classes, a new student showed. That, in itself, wasn't unexpected or unusual. Unfortunately, the department has run out of textbooks for that course. I was actually lucky to get the ones I did! I knew they had ordered more, but I wasn't sure if we'd see them within the next two weeks. After class, I went and photocopied about five sections out of the book for the guy (and after he took those, I stayed and photocopied about five more). When I went back to the math office, I found two of the grade 9 textbooks sitting on an empty desk. I asked the math head if they were claimed, and he told me I could take them! Sheesh. I wish I'd known they were there before I spent 20 minutes at the photocopier.
Tomorrow I teach all three classes in a row right from 8:45, so I have to get this prep work done now or never. This day just gets even longer!
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