multitasking
Feb. 12th, 2010 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ringsandcoffeeWatching the Opening Ceremony and working/playing on the laptop at the same time. This is actually kind of fun. I got one day of lesson plans taken care of already. The Olympics always make me cry. Every single time. Right now it's the parade of nations, so not much to watch. I can just listen to the trivia from the commentators.
Staying up to watch, and also now to pick someone up at 11:30 from the airport. Maybe I should have added a scoop of regular coffee to my pot of decaf after all, but I didn't know I'd be going out later at the time. I get to see Jayme! Tomorrow is a short hike with Kairos folk, and in the afternoon watching Emma with Reena and Michelle. I hope I'm not too tired.
Ok, seeing a commercial about watching tv on a cell phone freaks me out. I don't even know how to get on the internet on my phone. I only tried (and failed) when we were trying to find the Tucson arena a few weeks ago.
Had my evaluation today, finally, after 2 cancellations. I thought it went crappy. I was trying too hard, not being my normal self, but trying to do all the things he would want to see and hoping the kids wouldn't constantly be coloring on their whiteboards. It was fine though. Got a good report from the boss man, as well as the news I probably won't have a split class next year. So, job security, it seems, and only one grade. Except...in talking to other people, I keep finding that my school is not how it should be. My school would never do a 2 week unit on the Olympics as my friend did with her class. Kindergarten would not research a Chinese New Year tradition or have a celebration complete with Chinese food. All we do is speed through the standards, take tests, then see how much they didn't learn and add those things back on top of the things we haven't even been able to teach yet. One more year may be all I can take at my current school. Either find somewhere that actually prepares students for real life and teaches them about the world they live in, or figure out how to fit it in myself. Um, yeah, if I'm even allowed to.
Bad news...I'm getting sleepy.
Staying up to watch, and also now to pick someone up at 11:30 from the airport. Maybe I should have added a scoop of regular coffee to my pot of decaf after all, but I didn't know I'd be going out later at the time. I get to see Jayme! Tomorrow is a short hike with Kairos folk, and in the afternoon watching Emma with Reena and Michelle. I hope I'm not too tired.
Ok, seeing a commercial about watching tv on a cell phone freaks me out. I don't even know how to get on the internet on my phone. I only tried (and failed) when we were trying to find the Tucson arena a few weeks ago.
Had my evaluation today, finally, after 2 cancellations. I thought it went crappy. I was trying too hard, not being my normal self, but trying to do all the things he would want to see and hoping the kids wouldn't constantly be coloring on their whiteboards. It was fine though. Got a good report from the boss man, as well as the news I probably won't have a split class next year. So, job security, it seems, and only one grade. Except...in talking to other people, I keep finding that my school is not how it should be. My school would never do a 2 week unit on the Olympics as my friend did with her class. Kindergarten would not research a Chinese New Year tradition or have a celebration complete with Chinese food. All we do is speed through the standards, take tests, then see how much they didn't learn and add those things back on top of the things we haven't even been able to teach yet. One more year may be all I can take at my current school. Either find somewhere that actually prepares students for real life and teaches them about the world they live in, or figure out how to fit it in myself. Um, yeah, if I'm even allowed to.
Bad news...I'm getting sleepy.
