I know this has been around before and in many different versions, but I'm
*future post on my failure as a teacher/coach/man on only the second day of the job... :(
with no further ado, Taylor Mali:
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My Theme Song
...or Fight Song? Rallying Cry?
I know this has been around before and in many different versions, but I'mman enough teacher enough to admit it still chokes me up, convicts* me, and INSPIRES me! Especially since one of the jokes running around my family and friends lately (and I confess I started it) is a variation of the old "Those who can, do..." ending with "...can't teach, coach P.E.!" har, har, har...
*future post on my failure as a teacher/coach/man on only the second day of the job... :(
with no further ado, Taylor Mali:
I know this has been around before and in many different versions, but I'm
*future post on my failure as a teacher/coach/man on only the second day of the job... :(
with no further ado, Taylor Mali:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Day Two!
Which leads to the logical conclusion that yes, I did indeed survive Day One.
Aside from sending kids to the wrong place at the wrong time, and to the right place at the wrong time, and to the wrong... whatever, they all were accounted for at the end of the day. No tears and no blood, no drama, and just a little whining....
Day 2 replaces the head-swimming confusion of schedules and syllabuses (syllabi?) with that of CELT scores and IEPs, plus I have to figure out how to play "Bowling Dodge Ball" for my 3rd graders tomorrow. But Day 2 also brings my first ever prep period, so I have a student-free classroom, Pandora radio soothing my savage beast*, and not much else to do for the next hour ...?
*it's hard to separate P.E. coach from Football coach -- I am 95% very positive with my teams, but at a much higher, more insistent volume level than allowed on the school grounds. And the other 5% is most definitely not allowed on campus.
Aside from sending kids to the wrong place at the wrong time, and to the right place at the wrong time, and to the wrong... whatever, they all were accounted for at the end of the day. No tears and no blood, no drama, and just a little whining....
Day 2 replaces the head-swimming confusion of schedules and syllabuses (syllabi?) with that of CELT scores and IEPs, plus I have to figure out how to play "Bowling Dodge Ball" for my 3rd graders tomorrow. But Day 2 also brings my first ever prep period, so I have a student-free classroom, Pandora radio soothing my savage beast*, and not much else to do for the next hour ...?
*it's hard to separate P.E. coach from Football coach -- I am 95% very positive with my teams, but at a much higher, more insistent volume level than allowed on the school grounds. And the other 5% is most definitely not allowed on campus.
Monday, September 6, 2010
My FIRST First Day
...and yes, I am a little on the terrified side.
Part of me knows this will work out just fine: it's a long-term sub job coaching Middle School P.E., at my sons' school where I've subbed and done observations and taught Art and hung around asking questions, where I know the kids and the Staff...
And part of me knows this is an inevitable disaster of epic proportions: after all, I'm still a sub, it is (shudder) Middle School, and everyone who has known me all these years will see I'm a clueless fraud, and if I can't manage a P.E. class I will never, ever get a classroom...
Not only that, but I can't decide on what to wear.
Part of me knows this will work out just fine: it's a long-term sub job coaching Middle School P.E., at my sons' school where I've subbed and done observations and taught Art and hung around asking questions, where I know the kids and the Staff...
And part of me knows this is an inevitable disaster of epic proportions: after all, I'm still a sub, it is (shudder) Middle School, and everyone who has known me all these years will see I'm a clueless fraud, and if I can't manage a P.E. class I will never, ever get a classroom...
Not only that, but I can't decide on what to wear.
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