Congratulation on making it through week 11 and the first week of Quarter 4. How did you do this week? What stuff do you have under control and where do you need to do better on?
JBB’s DRP for 3/24/23: Week 11 Self-Assessment
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In a bit of a mood… Found out on Monday that eight robot kits that were being loaned to us, need to be returned very soon. Ugh, I guess I assumed we were going to have them for the rest of the year. And the Sphere robots that I wanted to use with my Intro students are showing their age, in that 10 out of the 12 robots are not holding their charge and were shutting-down after less than 15-seconds. And we had whole school testing on Tuesday and Wednesday, so that cut into instruction time and made the students just that much more unruly. So, I’m in the process of figuring out how to tweak things given that the robots both groups are using is going to be significantly diminished.
I also subbed the same period three out of the five days this week (the two days I didn’t sub was when we were testing and so I lost one prep periods on this days too). I’ve been finding or in this case, not finding any lesson plans to use with the students and that makes subbing all the more difficult, because staring down a classroom full of students that you don’t know with no lesson plans is challenging and emotionally tiring. So, when they requested that I sub the same art class I pulled out an old drawing lesson, how to draw a human face, that I did many years ago with my STEAM students. That made the time go more quickly, but, this still feels like such a waste of time, and if there is anything that I am highly sensitive about it’s wasting time. I have too many things that I want to do, even trying to improve things with my students, I hate that these chunks of time feel like babysitting and are of no educational value to the students. It is one of the things that I hate about this job, wasting precious time because American schools can’t get their teacher-shortage issues straightened out. Well, you only 38 more days and then you’ll be short this one teacher.
I think I’m just going to veg out tonight (Friday) and then begin mapping out how to survive the next week and the seven following that. This time needs to count, even I count down the days and weeks. There’s just too much to do between now and then. But right now, after I post this, I’ll lie down for a bit of a nap and maybe continue my latest LEGO build…. Happy weekend, y’all.