That’s how the saying goes, only it’s talking about children while I’m talking about me. Welcome to my journey in a deaf and hard-of-hearing classroom. I always like to joke about how I am monolingual, speak only one language, but even with others from another country, when I talk to them they can usually understand […]
Seen but not heard Read More »
Did I really not post about my teaching for the last week? Well, let’s see what I can remember. Monday I worked as a special ed teacher at a junior high. The teacher I subbed for I remember used to work in the district’s therapeutic day school program which is a program for students with
First full week, finally Read More »
And only day this week, partly thanks to my connection issues which are unfortunately still ongoing. I had no internet at all for yesterday afternoon and evening, while today it’s been intermittent. I wonder if the signal is now too powerful if that’s possible? I mean, it was going through a cable that was chewed
First full day of the year! Read More »
People who know me know that my preference for teaching is about 3rd-7th grades. Stretch a year in either direction, and those are pretty much the jobs I gravitate toward when I have a choice. Of course specials are an exception; I do take those no problem though they may include kindergarten or 1st grade.
There’s a guy in the preschool classroom! Read More »
7:15. That’s what time a sub has to be at the junior high schools (still called that even though they are on a middle-school system- I guess they didn’t want to change the letterheads 😛 ) in the district I was in today. That means being up before six. At least I had a solid
Small classes and early starts Read More »
It happens from time to time that I will only get a half day. Due to the advent of online systems though, it is relatively easy to accept a job and then later cancel when a better one comes up. I don’t do that too often, but a half day is one reason I try.
Well, that is just what half the class did today. Literally. The flu is just knocking everybody down for the count. Okay, the class size was only six students being a special education class so half the class was only three students, but that is still very high statistically speaking. Plus, the teacher I was
Just call in sick… Read More »
When one thinks of 8th grade, it is often associated with hormonally-challenged, impossible to control young adolescents, and indeed I have found this to be the case in several classrooms. Add learning, or especially behavioral disabilities to the mix and… well, I’ll leave it to the imagination. There is one school where I just refused
Not so bad after all / Quiz show Read More »
One of the easiest types of jobs a substitute can take is a job that has a student teacher. Typically, the student teacher does all the teaching while the sub just helps as needed. I have even encountered positions in the past where the teacher leaves a special instruction on the website that says “bring
One of the most common roles I fill in for is special education. Sometimes it’s quite challenging, sometimes quite easy. Well, it is only truly easy when there are teaching assistants who pretty much take over while I take the role of assistant. This is commonly the case in mentally impaired classrooms (autism, Down syndrome,
