A Quarterly Blog
OH MY LIFE! Have I really been teaching for 3 months??!! Now that is crazy... a quarter of the year gone already.... and no blog in all that time.
Well that sums up the main thing about teaching I guess, well first year teaching at any rate... you have NO time for pretty much anything else. As it is I have a pile of over 60 major papers waiting to be marked and a 92% contact week looming which is probably going to include a major observation looking at my progress so far. The work never seems to slow down... but I am just about managing to keep my head above water... I've survived my first major parents evening, my first 'sick' day, a major faux pas by another member of staff in front of my year 10's and my first set of reports. In fact, I got "told off" last week for coping to well, apparently it makes it hard for people to remember I'm a first year!
In amongst the busyness this job is kinda fun, and you begin to realise that kids really do say the funniest things, especially when trying to get out of trouble (see my facebook quotes). I think I've traumatised some of my year 7's by them finding out that I'm an English teacher who isn't 25 yet and doesn't read novels every day.
Being young, and looking young (probably more significantly)can be really amusing/ a real pain sometimes though. I'm up to about 8 or 9 cases of mistaken identity so far this year. By teachers and students... I was amused to be told to "Get back in that queue now!" by a year 11 on camp... and yesterday a teacher I haven't met before asked if I was another student's younger sister...??!!??
Well, I'm now going to take my frazzled, inarticulate brain back to work.... I might make it back in another quarter!
Well that sums up the main thing about teaching I guess, well first year teaching at any rate... you have NO time for pretty much anything else. As it is I have a pile of over 60 major papers waiting to be marked and a 92% contact week looming which is probably going to include a major observation looking at my progress so far. The work never seems to slow down... but I am just about managing to keep my head above water... I've survived my first major parents evening, my first 'sick' day, a major faux pas by another member of staff in front of my year 10's and my first set of reports. In fact, I got "told off" last week for coping to well, apparently it makes it hard for people to remember I'm a first year!
In amongst the busyness this job is kinda fun, and you begin to realise that kids really do say the funniest things, especially when trying to get out of trouble (see my facebook quotes). I think I've traumatised some of my year 7's by them finding out that I'm an English teacher who isn't 25 yet and doesn't read novels every day.
Being young, and looking young (probably more significantly)can be really amusing/ a real pain sometimes though. I'm up to about 8 or 9 cases of mistaken identity so far this year. By teachers and students... I was amused to be told to "Get back in that queue now!" by a year 11 on camp... and yesterday a teacher I haven't met before asked if I was another student's younger sister...??!!??
Well, I'm now going to take my frazzled, inarticulate brain back to work.... I might make it back in another quarter!
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