Mar/100
Day 66 – 7th Grade Math
on paper, this was the easiest subbing job ever. It was a class I had had before, and all I was doing was giving a test and then giving them work out of the book. Best of all the kids controlled if they had homework or not, because the only homework was to finish the book work. For the most part it went pretty well.
The most difficult part of the day for me was in the first class. The test was on warm-up problems that they had seen before and already had the answers to. One kid decided to write the answers on his desk. I decided to be nice and is having moved to a different seat. Since I had passed out the test I figured this would be okay. In the note I left the teacher I let her know that I caught this kid writing the answers on his desk and I gave him the test anyway since it had been passed out yet. I asked somebody in the class. Later what happened to that kid and they said nothing, which made me pretty angry. I guess I should have sent him to the principal’s office when I caught him instead of hoping that the teacher would do it when she came back
For the rest of the day the only problem was that the advanced class finished all of their old work while they were in class, which isn’t really a problem at all.
Mar/100
Day 64 – Middle School Orchestra
The plans for every class on this day said to just let the students practice and that they would do what they were supposed to do. I was rather skeptical to put it nicely. I’ve probably gotten a bit too cynical based on teacher saying that their classes would do the work and then they didn’t. But on this day, she was actually right.
The only problems I had with any of the orchestra classes were who got to run the tuner. Outside of that everybody actually practiced the entire time. It was amazing.
She also had a class that was music appreciation. That class watched the movie, and I went in to make sure they don’t talk dictator role. That probably didn’t need to happen because they all paid attention.
She did tell me to watch out for this class, but I think I need to form my own opinion and not form one based on what the teacher but for me.