This was the last day I subbed where I was working at the Montessori school at the same time. I was pretty happy that I wouldn’t have to restrict myself to schools that were close enough and got out early enough so that I could get downtown in time, although going from $95 a day to $65[1] didn’t make me too happy.
When I got to the school the teacher was there getting some stuff set up and made sure I had everything I would need for the day. It was a bit weird to see her there, but it did mean she got to tell me things instead of just writing them down.
Most of the day was busy work. I wish it wasn’t, but I can understand that the teacher might not want to leave someone that they don’t know with actual things to teach.
The thing I remember most about this one was that when the kids came in I started picking out who would be the bad ones and who would be the good ones based on their behavior in the first 5 or 10 minutes of class. Turns out I had those groups totally backwards.
I also learned that eating and helping kids isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Granted, they were 4th graders so it’s not like I had to help them open every single thing they had to eat.
- $10 an hour for 3 hours at the after school program [↩]