back to work I go!

[velvetpage]

Today is the first day of classroom-wrangling - by which I mean deciding on desk groupings, putting up bulletin boards, arranging my parent communication binder, nailing down a schedule and making up day planner sheets, creating a supply folder and beginning to fill it, planning for the first week - you get the idea. School doesn't actually start until next Tuesday, but all this stuff has to be done before that. I'm going in today, tomorrow, maybe two hours on Wednesday, and two hours for a meeting on Thursday. On Friday my sister-in-law arrives from Seattle for a few days, so I'm not working that day.

This is all officially unpaid time. Yet I don't know a single teacher who doesn't spend at least one full day in the classroom before Labour Day.

Time to get breakfast and get my family up. I need tea this morning. I really, seriously, badly need caffeinated tea this morning.

Comments

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

For checklists of things not to forget, try this website:
http://www.tipsforteachers.net/formsLetters.htm

It's got a lot of good stuff, though of course some of it doesn't apply. Getting the administration of the classroom to work so that you don't have to tell people where to put every single piece of paper is a major undertaking. If you can get that working, your job is easier by a wide margin.

Good luck!