Day 3 - Routines are Forming
Almost to the end of this first week. All I keep thinking about is how it is so weird right now but all of this will become our new normal very shortly. I am wondering a lot about how will this change our culture?
I had quite the fright today as I was preparing for my Calculus class when it sounded like someone was trying to break in my front door. My survival skills being honed as they are I froze and just stared at the door from my quarantine classroom. Eventually I realized the sound was of my apartment maintenance person cleaning my door... thoroughly, too, since he rubbed on the door, wiggled the door knob, and clacked the knocker for what felt like 20 minutes.
The good news is I am all caught up on my grading and the kids are slowly resubmitting their test corrections. I am not fully expecting to go back at all this year and so I know some kids were super stressed about losing the last few opportunities to improve their grade and so I prepaid them for their AP review binder bonus that historically 99% earn anyway. I hope that this little bump will take some stress and anxiety off their minds.
I am definitely planning on using this time to improve my classes next year. I might as well. There have been things I have wanted to improve for a while, especially in Calculus, and ways to get better organized in Algebra 1.
One thing I have found in this time alone in my apartment is how much I love my job... how much I love going to it every day... how much I love seeing the people I work with... and especially how much I love my students the good, the bad, the ups, the downs.
I had quite the fright today as I was preparing for my Calculus class when it sounded like someone was trying to break in my front door. My survival skills being honed as they are I froze and just stared at the door from my quarantine classroom. Eventually I realized the sound was of my apartment maintenance person cleaning my door... thoroughly, too, since he rubbed on the door, wiggled the door knob, and clacked the knocker for what felt like 20 minutes.
The good news is I am all caught up on my grading and the kids are slowly resubmitting their test corrections. I am not fully expecting to go back at all this year and so I know some kids were super stressed about losing the last few opportunities to improve their grade and so I prepaid them for their AP review binder bonus that historically 99% earn anyway. I hope that this little bump will take some stress and anxiety off their minds.
I am definitely planning on using this time to improve my classes next year. I might as well. There have been things I have wanted to improve for a while, especially in Calculus, and ways to get better organized in Algebra 1.
One thing I have found in this time alone in my apartment is how much I love my job... how much I love going to it every day... how much I love seeing the people I work with... and especially how much I love my students the good, the bad, the ups, the downs.
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