Friday, November 23, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Tired, so tired...
I'm in a mood. I am ridiculously tired. I've spent the last two days feeling fuzzy headed and tired. I don't feel sick though so I'm wondering if my medications may be off.
I'm grumpy with my students. I have the unfortunate reputation as being the nice teacher. I don't know how to be mean apparently. I am honestly meaner than I was in the past but still my kids tell me I'm the nice teacher. They try to take advantage of me and I am frustrated. What is it with people who think that because I am not on their case every last second that means they can do what they want. I have been reminding myself that there are only about 5 kids in each class of thirty who are obnoxious (except for 7A which has 10 jerks in a class of 22) This morning, I was in the hallway supervising the movement between classes when the students in my room got into a fight. Moments before I came back into the room, one girl came out in tears saying that one of the guys had thrown a hard candy at her and hit her in the face. She was in tears and had a red mark on her cheek. I sent the boy to the office before class had even started. sigh... I bought some candy from Costco last weekend and I've been randomly handing out to kids that make me happy. I thought even if it didn't make a difference in behaviour in the class, it would help me remember that most of my kids are truly great kids.
My car is annoying me too. I got it back from the mechanics a month ago. The transmission works again but it came back with the power locks not working and the heater only works when the fan is on high. Over the past month, both my headlights have gone out. So I need to send it back to the mechanics again...
Last week we had interim report cards which are the report cards between report cards. These were accompianed by parent-teacher interviews. These went from 2:30 until 8:30 one evening. The meetings were scheduled every 15 minutes and I was booked every single times slot. Then we started taking walk-in meetings and I was getting double booked. At one point I was 5 meetings behind. It was crazy. In order to be ready for the interims, I needed to mark a pile of short stories (five classes worth = 140 stories. At average of 15 minutes per story to mark it was an additional 35 hours of work in one week.) This week, I haven't marked a thing but I'm taking in another story from one class at the end of this week and the other four owe me reports in the next two weeks. I have the real report cards due the first week of December so it will be another round of extra hours for me.
Colby's new intructor is fabulous. Cole is loving it and is totally back on track with the guitar.
I'm grumpy with my students. I have the unfortunate reputation as being the nice teacher. I don't know how to be mean apparently. I am honestly meaner than I was in the past but still my kids tell me I'm the nice teacher. They try to take advantage of me and I am frustrated. What is it with people who think that because I am not on their case every last second that means they can do what they want. I have been reminding myself that there are only about 5 kids in each class of thirty who are obnoxious (except for 7A which has 10 jerks in a class of 22) This morning, I was in the hallway supervising the movement between classes when the students in my room got into a fight. Moments before I came back into the room, one girl came out in tears saying that one of the guys had thrown a hard candy at her and hit her in the face. She was in tears and had a red mark on her cheek. I sent the boy to the office before class had even started. sigh... I bought some candy from Costco last weekend and I've been randomly handing out to kids that make me happy. I thought even if it didn't make a difference in behaviour in the class, it would help me remember that most of my kids are truly great kids.
My car is annoying me too. I got it back from the mechanics a month ago. The transmission works again but it came back with the power locks not working and the heater only works when the fan is on high. Over the past month, both my headlights have gone out. So I need to send it back to the mechanics again...
Last week we had interim report cards which are the report cards between report cards. These were accompianed by parent-teacher interviews. These went from 2:30 until 8:30 one evening. The meetings were scheduled every 15 minutes and I was booked every single times slot. Then we started taking walk-in meetings and I was getting double booked. At one point I was 5 meetings behind. It was crazy. In order to be ready for the interims, I needed to mark a pile of short stories (five classes worth = 140 stories. At average of 15 minutes per story to mark it was an additional 35 hours of work in one week.) This week, I haven't marked a thing but I'm taking in another story from one class at the end of this week and the other four owe me reports in the next two weeks. I have the real report cards due the first week of December so it will be another round of extra hours for me.
Colby's new intructor is fabulous. Cole is loving it and is totally back on track with the guitar.
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