I find it interesting how tiring returning to school is. Every teacher, even those that taught summer school, were complaining how tired they are this week. I just think it’s amusing. It is much better than last year, at least for me. Last year I was in a state of almost constant exhaustion for about [...]
That was today. The school I work at has a weird schedule, or at least weird to me. It runs on a 6 day cycle and each day is different. So today, as the first day of school, was Day 1, tomorrow is Day 2, Monday is Day 3, and so on. Then on next [...]
Back to work on Monday, and let me tell you it was hard getting up and staying up all day. I had gotten into the habit of sleeping in a little (1 hour) and napping in the afternoons. The worst part was I’d gotten into the habit if staying up late. That was the problem. [...]
Tomorrow school begins. Technically that’s not true. School doesn’t start until Thursday but I return to work tomorrow. We will have meetings for two days, then new student orientation on Wednesday, then classes start on Thursday. It’s amusing to see the behind the scenes stuff. When I was in school I would get excited if [...]
Four days until school starts. Yikes!!! I was cruising around Craigslist, which I do fairly frequently, and looked in the education jobs. There was a posting for a math/science teacher for a small private school. I freaked out a little. I love my job and am so looking forward to returning – I don’t want [...]
I have spent the last 7 weeks getting ready for the new year. As is typical with most first years, I made a lot of mistakes last year that I do not want to repeat. There were also a couple of things that drove me completely batsh*t crazy. So I’ve been working on ways around [...]
This is my last week of vacation. I can not believe how quickly it went past. I can not believe that in 9 days I will be back to work. Wow!!! So, what have I accomplished this summer? Well, I did not get my thesis done. I have made some great progress and I am [...]
This is by far the hardest part of teaching. In order to sound like you know what you are talking about you have to be ready. Completely and totally ready. Getting the notebooks organized and getting everything I want in them is very time consuming. I’m pretty much there though. I’ve got the chemistry notebook [...]