The eleven-hour work day
Nov. 15th, 2004 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velvetpageDays like this are enough to make me seek out an office job like Piet's, if only for the opportunity to sit in one spot for a while.
My reports are no longer holding anyone else up. The parts relating to other people's classes are done. My own class is nearly done - I only have about six learning skills left to do. (That's the bit at the end where I get to say things like, "D's marks will improve when he brings a consistently positive attitude to class each day." Sometimes I get to be more blunt than that: "C requires constant reminders to stay in his seat and begin work." I like doing those, but they take a while because they're personalized to every kid.)
Meanwhile, the hour I spent on Thursday planning my week has just gone out the window because literacy groups are cancelled for the next two days while the lrt does testing on the grade 4's. On the one hand, I get to do some myth stuff with my grade 5's that ties in with (the next) social studies unit, and which I would otherwise have no time for. On the other hand, I have no time for this!! Two periods of literacy for which I need photocopies and written activities, ready by 8:15? WTF?? Tomorrow and Wednesday, when I have no prep tomorrow because I ABSOLUTELY MUST find time this week to meet with the new literacy teacher for forty minutes? (That, btw, is not my choice, either.) I am not at all amused by this.
Only four weeks and four days until Christmas vacation starts. It can't come soon enough. . .
My reports are no longer holding anyone else up. The parts relating to other people's classes are done. My own class is nearly done - I only have about six learning skills left to do. (That's the bit at the end where I get to say things like, "D's marks will improve when he brings a consistently positive attitude to class each day." Sometimes I get to be more blunt than that: "C requires constant reminders to stay in his seat and begin work." I like doing those, but they take a while because they're personalized to every kid.)
Meanwhile, the hour I spent on Thursday planning my week has just gone out the window because literacy groups are cancelled for the next two days while the lrt does testing on the grade 4's. On the one hand, I get to do some myth stuff with my grade 5's that ties in with (the next) social studies unit, and which I would otherwise have no time for. On the other hand, I have no time for this!! Two periods of literacy for which I need photocopies and written activities, ready by 8:15? WTF?? Tomorrow and Wednesday, when I have no prep tomorrow because I ABSOLUTELY MUST find time this week to meet with the new literacy teacher for forty minutes? (That, btw, is not my choice, either.) I am not at all amused by this.
Only four weeks and four days until Christmas vacation starts. It can't come soon enough. . .
