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Procrastinating
Jun. 28th, 2006 12:12 pmDude, how is it possible to procrastinate while on vacation? Yet here I am, not doing the following items, which vary in degree of importance:
*Getting my new car insured
*Looking over a book for ideas/teaching strategies
*Outlining what I'll be doing in class this year (see below)
*Taking a shower
*calling a friend I want to see in Sac tomorrow
Oh. BIG NEWS! I spoke to my vice principal on Monday morning. She had called my friend who knew how to get in touch with me here in CA, so I called the VP back right away. I'm now the 8th grade English teacher. The VP said somehow there were no applicants, and so she asked if I would do it. My friend asked what would have happened if I had said no, that I wanted to stay the Title I reading teacher, and I didn't know. I somehow knew since the last week of school that this was going to happen. ACK I don't have a clue what I'm doing, and I don't have a lot of people to turn to. I can call/email the previous teacher, but I'm pretty much going at this alone. I hate that the district is set up this way. One of my fears of taking the job was that I would be the lone teacher. I will try to talk to the other 8th grade teachers in the district, if I can. So, I'll now have somewhere around 90 students, a homeroom group (which I wanted anyway), and about 100 times the workload I had before. Plus, a bunch of immature, rude boys. I have to get my class procedures and policies down soon, and not budge from them.
Argh, should work on the car thing now.
*Getting my new car insured
*Looking over a book for ideas/teaching strategies
*Outlining what I'll be doing in class this year (see below)
*Taking a shower
*calling a friend I want to see in Sac tomorrow
Oh. BIG NEWS! I spoke to my vice principal on Monday morning. She had called my friend who knew how to get in touch with me here in CA, so I called the VP back right away. I'm now the 8th grade English teacher. The VP said somehow there were no applicants, and so she asked if I would do it. My friend asked what would have happened if I had said no, that I wanted to stay the Title I reading teacher, and I didn't know. I somehow knew since the last week of school that this was going to happen. ACK I don't have a clue what I'm doing, and I don't have a lot of people to turn to. I can call/email the previous teacher, but I'm pretty much going at this alone. I hate that the district is set up this way. One of my fears of taking the job was that I would be the lone teacher. I will try to talk to the other 8th grade teachers in the district, if I can. So, I'll now have somewhere around 90 students, a homeroom group (which I wanted anyway), and about 100 times the workload I had before. Plus, a bunch of immature, rude boys. I have to get my class procedures and policies down soon, and not budge from them.
Argh, should work on the car thing now.
