I have been subbing for over a year now, and I almost always have great, easy days. Every now and then I get a tough class, but usually things go pretty smoothly. But last week.. oh wow. Last week my week went as follows:
Monday: Middle School Drama (which WAS drama.. these kids did not have a permanent teacher for all of first semester, and their current teacher was only recently hired.) The teacher's plans were to "work in their improv groups".. ya uh huh.. sure that will happen.
Tuesday: 2nd Grade (see previous post!)
Wednesday: Early Release so I did not get a job.
Thursday: 5th Grade (class from hell! The office told me very explicitly how to call them if I needed me, and told me they expected me to call within the first 10 minutes of class)
Friday: 2nd Grade (this class was actually great, a nice end to the week.)
So far this week I have had a great week!
The 2nd graders I subbed for today for were so sweet. The school is in a rough area, so I was apprehensive at first, but I tried going in with an open mind. The plans the teacher left, were pretty good, although a bit vague. The school has an 18:1 teacher to student policy, and 6 kids were out sick (OMGswineflu) so I only had 12 kids. This policy surprised me, since most of the schools in my district have at least 25 kids in them. The day went great. They were really sweet and mostly followed directions. A girl even gave me a pink My Little Pony key chain, YES! Yesterday I subbed in a high school where there was a Student Teacher, so I just got to read all day.
- Yay for good days...
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christina_ftw- May 5th, 15:17
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- April 29th, 14:00
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So this is my first post, so I don't know, it will probably be very lame. I had a horrible day subbing yesterday, and decided to make a blog post about it. None of the kids in the class were particularly dif than any other kids I have subbed for, it was just that there were so many of them. The class had 28 students, all 2nd graders, and 9 of them have behavior problems. Another 4 seemed to decide that since their friends were acting crazy, they might as well act crazy too. Most of the day was spent talking about why they were acting so bad. They all said they knew they were being disrespectful and felt bad, but they just couldn't help themselves. That's my favorite part about teaching, when the young ones do something wrong, they never know why. When you ask them why they did something wrong, they knew know, they just did.
I've been subbing for over a year now, and I always leave a note to the teacher I am taking over for. I use a form letter that I made that I fill out each time. The letter has an area for me to list absent students, disruptive students, and helpful students. It also has an area for comments and a rating scale that I use to rate the students' overall behavior (on a scale of 1-10). Yesterday I gave the class a 2, and the lowest I have ever given a class was a 7! So these 2nd graders were pretty bad. I had students constantly yelling at each other, at me, and at kids from other classes. They would get up and wander around for no reason, hit each other, etc. They were uncontrollable! One student got so angry at another student (who called him stupid, srs bsns.. right?!) and went at him to fight. I grabbed the kid, who was probably in reality stronger than me, and tried to hold him back. He yelled at me to let go of him, and then hit me. He did not hit me very hard, but it was still shocking! Needless to say, this day was horrible. At 3:40 I was so ready to leave! I leave the school and walk toward the rental car I am driving (my truck is in the shop) only to find out the battery was dead. I wonderful end, to a wonderful day. Maybe I will post again tomorrow, or maybe I will forget this thing exists! Either way, later.
