Friday was the last day at the school before students arrive on Monday. My day started off with a visit to the principal’s secretary to fill out an emergency contact information card. I also found out there are permits to park in the faculty/staff lot, but the lady in charge of that was not in and I was told to check back on Monday.
I made it to the classroom early at about 8:10. My mentor teacher didn’t arrive until about 8:30 because of dropping her son off at kindergarten. 9:00 was when the “Making the Grade” seminar was scheduled for. We went up to the computer lab and I brought along a small notebook because I thought I would need it but I didn’t. The meeting was sort of a waste of time. The leader didn’t really teach anything. The main point of this was to tell teachers how to do extra credit in the grading scheme. There must have been problems with this last year! Also, there was a big monsoon storm on Thursday night and apparently that knocked out some servers in the main offices of the district so the network wasn’t working properly. This meant that teachers were unable to import their class lists and get started on the grading schemes. I was very disappointed because I really wanted to learn how to use this program because I will always have to use either this one or a similar one. My mentor told me she would teach me how to use it once the servers were up again and she was setting up the grading scheme for the year.
After that we went out to her car and got the final two boxes of stuff she had brought from her old school. That was exciting. For the next hour and half we arranged the tables, set up her computer projector and tested a new remote so that you can walk away from the computer to change the power point slides. We found the “dead zones” where the remote does not work, important knowledge to have so you don’t look silly in the middle of a lesson!
My mentor teacher had an appointment at 11:00 so she was gone from about 10:50 to 11:45. During this time I looked at the biology textbook to entertain myself. It looks very comprehensive. It has more information than you could ever hope to cover in one year of Biology, but I think this trend is true for most textbooks.
Later, after she got back from her appointment, the construction men fixed the problem with the cabinets. The cabinets were not anchored to the wall properly by the original person who installed them which causes a hazard because the cabinets could fall off the wall and hurt someone! After the cabinets were all anchored, I loaded them back up with the videos and microscopes. I also put shells, fossils, and birds’ nests on a set of three shelves behind glass doors as a sort of display. After that, I took all the graffiti off of the tables with Oops! and Goof Off! I will have to buy some of these cleaners when I have my own room for sure!
The last project of the day was printing out the syllabi for Earth Science and Biology. There were only about 40 Earth Science syllabi but there were about 140 Biology ones that all needed to be printed, collated, and stapled. I got through almost all of them and then we called it a day at about 1:30. I will finish the remaining ones on Monday.
I am excited to meet some of the students and I hope that the first day of school goes off with out a hitch!
I made it to the classroom early at about 8:10. My mentor teacher didn’t arrive until about 8:30 because of dropping her son off at kindergarten. 9:00 was when the “Making the Grade” seminar was scheduled for. We went up to the computer lab and I brought along a small notebook because I thought I would need it but I didn’t. The meeting was sort of a waste of time. The leader didn’t really teach anything. The main point of this was to tell teachers how to do extra credit in the grading scheme. There must have been problems with this last year! Also, there was a big monsoon storm on Thursday night and apparently that knocked out some servers in the main offices of the district so the network wasn’t working properly. This meant that teachers were unable to import their class lists and get started on the grading schemes. I was very disappointed because I really wanted to learn how to use this program because I will always have to use either this one or a similar one. My mentor told me she would teach me how to use it once the servers were up again and she was setting up the grading scheme for the year.
After that we went out to her car and got the final two boxes of stuff she had brought from her old school. That was exciting. For the next hour and half we arranged the tables, set up her computer projector and tested a new remote so that you can walk away from the computer to change the power point slides. We found the “dead zones” where the remote does not work, important knowledge to have so you don’t look silly in the middle of a lesson!
My mentor teacher had an appointment at 11:00 so she was gone from about 10:50 to 11:45. During this time I looked at the biology textbook to entertain myself. It looks very comprehensive. It has more information than you could ever hope to cover in one year of Biology, but I think this trend is true for most textbooks.
Later, after she got back from her appointment, the construction men fixed the problem with the cabinets. The cabinets were not anchored to the wall properly by the original person who installed them which causes a hazard because the cabinets could fall off the wall and hurt someone! After the cabinets were all anchored, I loaded them back up with the videos and microscopes. I also put shells, fossils, and birds’ nests on a set of three shelves behind glass doors as a sort of display. After that, I took all the graffiti off of the tables with Oops! and Goof Off! I will have to buy some of these cleaners when I have my own room for sure!
The last project of the day was printing out the syllabi for Earth Science and Biology. There were only about 40 Earth Science syllabi but there were about 140 Biology ones that all needed to be printed, collated, and stapled. I got through almost all of them and then we called it a day at about 1:30. I will finish the remaining ones on Monday.
I am excited to meet some of the students and I hope that the first day of school goes off with out a hitch!
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