A Photographer

As I mentioned in my last post, nearly a month ago, I've taken a job as a photographer.
I've been training now for just about a week.  The studio for which I'm working is located inside of a major, national, big-box store, so I see a lot of people who aren't interested in photography.  This includes a lot of students I've subbed for.
It has been kinda funny, actually.  Many students will come up to me and say "hi," and want to know "what I'm doing there."
It's nice to be recognized, but sometimes it can be hard to skirt around the fact that I have no idea what the students' names are, or even what school they go to.

A Summer School Teacher (4)

Today was the last day of the first secession of summer school.  All we had on the agenda today was to catch-up on missing homework and take the final exam.  Since I only had four kids in the room and had three hours to work with, I let them decide for themselves when they wanted to take the exam.  We were done by about the second hour of class.  Many of the kids from the other classes were also done early, so another teacher set them all up with a movie in his classroom.  It gave me plenty of time to put together a report on final grades, get the classroom cleaned up, and leave right after the kids.

Now I've got a month off from school.

I recently accepted a job in a local photo studio.  I'm sure that will make the summer interesting.

Will there be a "Mr. C. Pretends to be a Photographer" update in the future?  Only time will tell.

A Summer School Teacher (3)

I can't believe that the second week is already over with.  Next week is the last day of this session.  I'll start back again the first week of August.

I had a girl actually use the line, "my dog ate my homework."  I told her that there was no way I would ever accept that excuse, but either way she'll just have to turn it in late.

Some seniors had just finished up some testing which allowed them to graduate on time (or at least a month late), so they put on a mini graduation ceremony.  Since I'm one of only 3 teachers in the building right now, I had to participate in part of the ceremony... which pretty much just meant standing in recognition at a particular time.
I also got some free pizza out of it.

A Summer School Teacher (2)

I've now finished my first week teaching summer school.  Two students have already dropped out of my class.
I've now got three US History 1 students, one Economics student, one World History 1 student, and one World History 2 student.
I'm finding that teaching four classes at the same time, all day long is rather trying.  Also, packing 12 weeks worth of material into 12 days seems to be more content at one time than these guys are used to.

This is going to be a very educational summer... hopefully for more than just me.

A Summer School Teacher

As I said on Friday, I just accepted a job teaching summer school.
The position lasts a total of six weeks.  Three weeks now, through the end of June and another three weeks in August.  8am - Noon.

Today was rather hectic.  It got easier about halfway through when I got some textbooks and a scope and sequence for most of the classes.
I've already got the rest of the week sketched out, so it should go much smoother from now on.

Seeing as I'm looking to find a part-time job to fill in the second-half of the day, I don't think I'll have time to do daily updates.

An Elementary Gym Teacher.

I subbed today for an elementary gym teacher.

It was only a half day, but it was a lot of fun.

I had four classes, each played a variation of freeze-tag and a variation of dodgeball.  The last couple classes I decided to join in on the dodgeball... THAT was a lot of fun, especially since, instead of getting "out" I would just switch teams.

Also, as of about 10 minutes ago, I am officially going to be teaching summer school at a local high school.  It's only four hours a day, four days a week, for six weeks... but I'm still looking forward to it.

A Middle School Language Arts Teacher.

I subbed today for a middle school language arts teacher.  Once again, it was only a partial day.

During one of the class periods the kids just had to go outside and play.  It was real rough.