Sorry I have been bad about updating lately. I thought about updating when school started but I didn't really have anything to report. I was put on the excess list at the end of last year, because there were too many teachers at my school. I had a contract with the district, and any school that needed a social studies teacher, I could be pulled there. Well, that didn't happen. So I was sent back to my school as a Response to Intervention teacher. There were several of us "leftovers" around the district that were put into the RTI position. Unfortunately, nobody knows what that means or what to do with us. So I was put with our campuses Academic Achievement Specialist. And she is a nice enough lady; however, I was doing all of her work while she was just checking her emails- not fun. Luckily, the Director of Instruction Helping Teacher's office was right next door, and she is an awesome lady and she kept telling me the admin team would be meeting about me to discuss my job description. She was definitely my advocate! And last week I finally got a job description.
On Mondays and Fridays I will be team teaching with a Geography teacher who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She will be gone a lot of days with chemo. I hate the fact that she has cancer, and she has a 86% chance of survival so that's good. But I am glad that I am in a position to help her out. On Tuesday I will be team teaching with a World History teacher. I am a little upset by this, because he is the coach that came in even though there was me plus another world history teacher on the excess list. He is struggling because he has been out of the high school general ed classroom for a while (he was middle school special ed). But that's ok I guess, it gets me back in the classroom. On Wednesdays I will be subbing for Social Studies teachers who will be participating in peer coach (i.e. observing how other SS teachers teach and learning from it). And on Thursdays I will be observing teachers and working with any kids that need serious help in SS. I am very glad that all my work will be with the SS team and no longer up front with the admin.
So far a week into my new job description, things have been going well. Though it’s not idea, it is working a whole lot better. On a side note, our raises kicked in, as well as my master’s stipend, and my pay check got a whole lot bigger (though I think some of it had to do with the fact that since I started in December last year, I wasn’t getting a full salary), so that’s been exciting!!
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