Worn out. It's been a dramatic week work-wise, not even counting the 5-day inter-disciplinary unit myself and five others have thrown together in 6 hours - plus some typing time at home. On top of all the brain-busting (The New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Rhetoric, or Revolution? Discuss.) and networking, our principal jumped into the action by rearranging mine and a few other coworker's schedules for the school year. A lot. Not only my subjects, but hours have been shifted - most unhappily. And we have officially lost my mentee, who has been displaced to an elementary school. The drama in detail:
Tuesday night was a board meeting, where final "counts" were taken of each school and the board decides if a school can hire any last-minute people. This is all done on per-hour basis, stupidly. West was given 0.4 FTE, or translated into 2 classes. We needed 1.0 to keep my mentee. So he's gone. Now my principal had to decide - add classes to part-timers, or hire someone to teach 2 hours a day? We're not sure what the final decision is, but all we know is on Wednesday, the schedules started changing.
I went from three 8th grade classes to one 7th and two 8th (of course - I packed all my 7th grade stuff up and put it in storage). My coworker, who had 1 Econ elective and 4 7th grades, now has 3 preps - worst yet, SHE got my 8th grade and a NEW elective.
I also went from teaching 3rd-5th hour to gaining a Homeroom, teaching 1st hour, 3rd, and 4th. So my day of starting at 10:15 now starts at 8am, and ends at 1:00 instead of 2:00. Which is inconvenient for reasons I won't go into here.
I think what I'm most irritated about is losing one of my 8th grade. I was really looking forward to teaching all one subject and it NOT being 7th grade, which I've taught for 4.5 years now. And why my coworker, who has never taught 8th grade EVER, now has it as one of three preps is beyond me. Ah well.... perhaps this shall pass? The fat lady hasn't truly sung yet, and rumor abounds that kids are still registering at West...
Tuesday night was a board meeting, where final "counts" were taken of each school and the board decides if a school can hire any last-minute people. This is all done on per-hour basis, stupidly. West was given 0.4 FTE, or translated into 2 classes. We needed 1.0 to keep my mentee. So he's gone. Now my principal had to decide - add classes to part-timers, or hire someone to teach 2 hours a day? We're not sure what the final decision is, but all we know is on Wednesday, the schedules started changing.
I went from three 8th grade classes to one 7th and two 8th (of course - I packed all my 7th grade stuff up and put it in storage). My coworker, who had 1 Econ elective and 4 7th grades, now has 3 preps - worst yet, SHE got my 8th grade and a NEW elective.
I also went from teaching 3rd-5th hour to gaining a Homeroom, teaching 1st hour, 3rd, and 4th. So my day of starting at 10:15 now starts at 8am, and ends at 1:00 instead of 2:00. Which is inconvenient for reasons I won't go into here.
I think what I'm most irritated about is losing one of my 8th grade. I was really looking forward to teaching all one subject and it NOT being 7th grade, which I've taught for 4.5 years now. And why my coworker, who has never taught 8th grade EVER, now has it as one of three preps is beyond me. Ah well.... perhaps this shall pass? The fat lady hasn't truly sung yet, and rumor abounds that kids are still registering at West...
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