One?

October 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm | In hours, pay check | Leave a Comment
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One day? Nope! I just got a call from another teacher at Lim school – she needs a Sub for tomorrow cause she is damn sick. Trust me, she is. She sounded like she was 80 years old she’s so sick! Luckily she thought ahead of time and made plans for a sub before leaving work today.

That makes me feel better.

Fucktards. So I have access to the hours that I will be paid for in a time period, right? so I went and checked and saw that I have 35 hours, which okay. BUT the first 6 days that I worked at L school? Not on there. So the SSA or SAA or whatever she is has NOT submitted my hours/days for payment. Today was the deadline! So I’m only getting those 35 hours. Or 5 (6 hour) days and 1 five-hour day. So my big ass check isn’t going to be so big ass anymore. It’s going to be $865 for those 5 days and then $144 for the 1 day. A total of just over $1,000. BUT that’s before taxes. So maybe $900? Not sure. While it SHOULD have been $2,047. So I’m a bit pissed off right now. tomorrow during a break I’ll call Iv (the person at L school in charge of it) and see if she’s going to get this done. Now, I should have checked days ago and made sure it was in for this paycheck, BUT I couldn’t log on and couldn’t find ANYTHING. So I decided to try again now – and I id find it, thank goodness.

Buck Fuck! I want my money!

This is going to be cross posted in my other blog.

Lim School

October 29, 2008 at 11:30 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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I got the call to work yesterday a week prior. It was for 2nd grade. I was nervous but looking forward to it. I get to the school, they recognize me, give me the key and I head off in my search for the class. Room 18. I look and look. No luck. Finally I see this building that is next to room 17 but there is no door to get in visible from inside the school. Okay, I’ll walk into the parking lot – aha! In order to get into the school you have to walk into the parking lot. Awesome safety going on right there.

I walk up to the door, put the key in and I hear someone yell “Hello! That’s my class! I’m Ms. *****!” Uhh. Okay? So I walk back down and over to her. She was getting out of the car (passenger). I tell her I’m her sub. She looks at me like I’m crazy.

“A sub? I’m in today. When did you get called?”

Uhh… “I got called over a week ago to come in today.”

“There has to be a mistake. I’m in today. Obviously.” She pulls out her phone and calls the office as I stand there. “OfficePerson, you have a sub for me today but I’m here. I’m on campus. No, no… there’s a mistake. I have a meeting ON THE PHONE at 2pm. I’m here today.” That ends up being it. She’s there. So I go back up to the office and sit and wait for them to do something with me.

The coordinator comes and gets me and tells me that I’d be helping her for a while. So I spend most of the day placing labels on Cums (okay, that looks bad, but you all know what I mean). THEN the VP comes and gets me. Could I possibly deliver some “things” to some classes? Sure, I say. Thinking by “things” she means papers and crap like that. What is it that I deliver? Big boxes with new projectors in them. They weren’t too heavy, just cumbersome AND there there were 12 of them! TWELVE! This is a big school over 1000 students, over 50 classrooms. These classrooms are spread out on two seperate sides of the campus. So it had me walking ALL over the place pushing this card with boxes of projectors. Did I mention I was wearing WHITE pants? I was. Guess what color the pants are now.

So yea… it was an interesting day.

Now I’m watching the news and they (and by they I mean the idiot governor of California) is cutting the education budget AGAIN! Why schools? Schools should NEVER BE CUT! EVER!

Two days done!

October 24, 2008 at 9:19 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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They were amazing. I don’t know if it has anything to do with me knowing how she teaches and what her rules and whatnot are…. or if she just has an amazing class this year – or what it was… BUT I HAD A GREAT TIME! The kids LISTENED to me. They did some talking – but barely, and they stopped when I asked them to! It was really amazing. I felt good about it! The kids liked me, I liked them, we were able to get things done and have extra time to read Halloween stories listening to Halloween music! Spooky!

There was only one student whom I had issues with. I gathered that he has emotional issues (in addition to Michelle telling me that he needs a lot of attention) – a counselor came in to talk to him (which is odd, I’ve never seen a counselor on campus before) and he goes to RSP twice a day. Whenever he got something wrong he would get overly frustrated and give up. Sometimes I stretched the truth to say that he was right so that it wouldn’t be an issue for him. Otherwise he wasn’t an issue.

I learned a game that helps kids learn about > < and =. Michelle left me to do it with the kids and they loved it, which makes it even better! I drew a numbr line from 1-30 on the board. One student is “it”. They choose a number and write it down (so that they can’t change it later). The rest of the class calls out a number and the “it” student writes on the board a sentence… ie: “It” picks 7. Student chosen says “20″ – “it” student writes on the board: ___< 20 : “My number is less than 7″. After each sentence they have to read it – and it goes on until someone guesses the right number. I will definitely use this game with my class in the future, and maybe with other classes I’ll sub for (I’m subbing in a second grade class on Tuesday).

So, overall, if you haven’t been able to tell: I had a good two days at work. It was nice being at my old job and being around the same people – although it was different, as it had to be after a year of not being there and coming back in a different position. I look forward to going back!

Big Two Days

October 22, 2008 at 8:57 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Tomorrow and Friday are going to be big subbing days for me, emotionally.

I will be subbing at Haskell, my old work… for the teacher I worked with for 3 years. We got along REALLY well. She came to my college graduation, dinner AND ceremony! My dad didn’t. So although I don’t expect it to be “hard” or anything of the sort, it will definitely be interesting. I will definitely want to get everything she leaves done, and do my best by her class. She was my first mentor and the one I learned most from. I respect her very much.

That said, she’s not the most organized teacher out there, and so it might be interesting – as far as what she leaves for me. Hopefully there will be enough for me to do. Just in case I’m taking a couple of Halloween books, but that’s about it. I think it should be fine.

I got a call today from L school asking if I was open tomorrow – but alas, no. Which is good for me, but damn if I couldn’t be at both schools at once.

I’ll also be passing out my cards at Haskell. I passed out some shitty home made ones last week, but these are the better ones. I just wish I had written that I speak Spanish on them.

We’ll see how it goes and if I update tomorrow!

I haven’t found much…

October 20, 2008 at 5:51 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

that I can really post about on here as of yet. But there are a couple of things I could mention, so here I am.

I got myself sub cards so I’m going to start passing those out soon. (tomorrow?)

I’m subbing at Haskell on Thursday and Friday and then I just got called to sub at Lim School again next Tuesday.

Last night I started freaking out about how much time I have left to work a full 100 days/600 hours so I can have insurance next year (of course I might just have a full time job next year, but what if I don’t?). I thought I’d have to work almost every single day left in the year – but then I re-did my math and figured out I could miss 50 some days and still get 600 hours… BUT still, I need to do a lot of working.

I shall really have to pass my cards around. Get lots of work!

Hopefully I’ll have more to talk about later on!

Two days straight!

October 15, 2008 at 9:36 pm | In Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Tomorrow I go back to Lim school. I’m subbing for a 2nd grade class.

I’m feeling slightly anxious about it, but I’m also feeling good. I feel as though it’s good practice to go from school to school subbing. I get to learn about different strategies and where they work best, it gives me experience in different grade levels, different methods of teaching, and the like. I also think in the end it will help me in getting a full time job at some point.

I just have to make sure I work 100 days during the school year so that I can get health benefits next year. By then I’ll be off my dads. I’ve worked 7 days thus far. I have 4 more scheduled, so 11. Hopefully I’ll get more calls from both these schools. I also look forward to having my business card so I can pass them out to different schools and pimp myself out a little bit.

Wish me luck!

Subby!

October 14, 2008 at 5:45 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

As I was about to type this I got another call from the sub finder. I knew about this one, though. The school I went to today was Lim school. The principal at Lim school used to be the principal at GH school, which I student taught at last semester. The principal, BH, LOVED me. She wanted to give me a job, but just didn’t have one to offer me.

So I made myself visible to her today and she asked me for my info (emp. # and phone #). She then gave the information to ALL the teachers at the school! WooHoo!

After work I headed to Jamba, Borders and Barnes & Noble before going to HLC. While I was leaving B&N I got a call from another teacher at Lim school! I’m working there again on Thursday (in 2nd grade, today was 4th). Firday I work at Haskell, and there again NEXT Thursday and Friday. Woohoo! That’s just under $2,000! I’ve never seen SO much money. I’ve had more money, but not all in one paycheck! It feels so good! :) More money would be better.

There isn’t much to share about today. It was a GATE class, which was really nice. The day went by smoothly. the kids were really good and did their work. We had indoor playing/eating because of the bad air quality (because of all the fires around here) and so I had to tell them to lower their voices a bit a couple of times, but over all it was a good day. It was also a shortened day (Tuesday professional development). Hopefully the kids will report back positively to their teacher (who was out because of the fires).

work, work, work!

October 14, 2008 at 6:59 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I got a call from the Sub Finder this morning. Gonna work today at Lim school.

I’ll let you know how it goes! Woo!

Written Post from 10/8

October 9, 2008 at 8:48 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Today is my last day at L school. I’m relieved! The kids are all amazing. The teachers are, too. Except for this new one and then the principal. The AP is wonderful.

I have learned some things in my 6 days here. Others have been reinforced. You have to be prepared! Planning has t be done and you have to study those plans so you are prepared. Not being prepared will ruin the entire day or even week if you get behind.

I also learned that I have to stand up for myself even more if I don’t want to be stepped on. That is basically what heppened to me here. The principal took advantage of my naivete. I tried to put a stop to it, but my inexperience as well as fear of looking bad and not being hired kept me from really, truly standing up and doing something for myself.

I’m also learning how to do some discipline. I have my own ways of doing things but its also good to learn new ways of doing things. Since my way might not work with all students. I think I’m also upset at the situation because it’s hard to start rules and what not when you’re starting a month into the school year. In addition to that – I was/am just a sub. It’s not in my job description to do any of the things I did. It pisses me off.

Another thing that totally has annoyed me to no end these past two days? This asshole. I try to help him and he will NOT take it. Forthe writing board? We had some awesome art work and persuasive letters (what they are studying now) and he shoved that off completely. That not only pisses me off because of the work I put into it, but the work the kids put into them. He didn’t even aknowledge them! I’m sure part of it has to do with him coming in and taking what should have been mine. I resent him for who he is. But his attitute towards me confirms my feelings.

One things that you might not know about me is that I’m OCD when it comes to things becing neat and organized. That includes writing. This guy is messy (which makes sense since he is a guy), but goodness! He put up a class jobs poster and colored boxes –> theya re all different sizes! and not purposefully!! It just looks unprofessional! He is self-observed and I get the feeling he things its his way or the highway. Oh, by the way? He’s in this 5th year of teaching. Mr. Big Shot is a fucking rookie! Oh, and I have to get personal! He’s not 40 yet and he’s completely gray. Not even salt-n-pepper!

So I’m sitting to the side of the room while he teaches. They are paying me $173.04 today to take over for 2 hours. At recess I’m going to go to the bookfair and look for an interesting book I could buy and entertain myself with after lunch. I have the Halloween books in my car, too. Right now, though? I’m so fucking bored!

I really don’t know why I’m here. How lame to sit and do nothing for an entire day! I’m going to ask the teacher next door if she needs anything grtaded or whatever. Something to entertain me. I did stop at the book fair, but without buying anything – but I saw two kids books I am going to buy.

….Later….

I ended up helping the teacher next door to somethign the time that A-Hole had to go elsewhere. They actually had another sub come in to cover A-Hole. A boring day got even worse! It’s 12:30 now. 2 hours until it’s time to go. He set aside time to do PE. Umm, I’m not oging outside in this heat.

Finally

October 9, 2008 at 8:32 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

I’m going to type up my posts from the past two days.

10/7/08

I haven’t had the time before to talk about what happened and how things went on Friday. The point is mainly moot now since I don’t have this class for more time, but I think its important for me to record my first full day as a teacher, even if it was as a sub. Especially since I had to do the planning for the day.

Friday started with actually moving the kids to the appropriate classrooms. After that was all taken care of (and it did take some time to do) I had the kids write a friendly letter to introduce themselves to the other people in the class. Things went well in general. I felt good. I felt confident in my abilities. I was happy. When I did end up finishing the da I felt really good about myself and about my decision of becoming a teacher. Then yesterday? Things changed.

I began the day with a Haloween art project so that the room will be prepared for Back to School night.. DC walks in and tells me that art should be left for the afternoon. Now, I can understand that, but give me a break! I’m trying to do things for you over my real responsibilities as a sub. I mean, I’m getting paid the same amount for everything I’m doing for them here as I would be if I was just dictating what a regular teacher left for me. Like I said, I’ve never been at a school who disliked their principal as much as the people here do. I have sort of fotten to understand what they mean. She’s a control freak and I might be lucky to not be hired here.

Right now the literacy coach i teaching something and the new class teacher (aka  evil man who took my job) is getting some things up.

You know… I almost feel like it would be better for me to go ahead and sub for an entire year so I have some experience under my belt before getting a full time job. It will also make me more wanted, I think. I ordered business cards for subbing. I’m going to call Haskell to see if they need a sub on Friday for anyone, I think. Or I can just take the day for myself…. I just called and got another day from Steph, and I already have 2 from Michelle. So that’s 3 more days. But they might get me in for the PE thing once a week. I’m not sure I want to that. I mean, I know nothing about PE. We’ll see.

Okay, what I do have to talk about is this: This guy is an a-hole!! He wants a math board and I tell him exactly something that we can do. That I already had planned for today. Something that goes with what they are learning and studying. But I guess he doesn’t like that. He is looking for something else. Umm, when? When are you going to do it? School lets out early today. An hour early. We’ve alreadys pent 45 minutes with him introducing himself.

Okay – that’s it for Tuesday. I stopped without actually finishing :0

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