Starting to miss...
Starting to be forced into packing up the last of my stuff and getting ready to sell things that we can't take with us. I think I haven't mentioned it yet, but our house has been sold and our closing date is around May 18th.Our house is gradually emptying out and I'm beginning to feel depressed! I can't imagine driving into Fredericton and not being able to come HOME. The thought that this house will soon not be ours and will belong to someone else is really, really weird.
As for the future.. I'm not sure. Half of me hopes to land a contract for the next school year so that I can gain another year of experience but the other half of me hopes that I can move out West this summer. Ideally, I'd move out West and get a job immediately, better yet, have a job offer first! Realistically speaking though, that's not going to happen. I've been dragging me feet when it comes to applying for a BC teacher's license as the freaking application is over 10 pages long! The bigger problem is that I will need my principal to fill out a 2 page evaluation form about my philosophy, my planning and my teaching before I could actually submit it. Although I think she's understand if I asked her to fill it out, I wonder whether it'll make her hesitate when it comes to offering me another year at this school.
Speaking of my principal, she came in to evaluate me on Friday. She was actually suppose to come on Thursday and she accidentally went to my colleague's class instead (my colleague was scheduled for Friday, so she (principal) mixed the two of us up). Anyhow, I was teaching Math when she came in and at first, the kids were being pretty good. As our activity progressed, they started to become chatty (not as chatty as they usually are, but chatty nonetheless). I was kind of shocked (why, I do not know) that they would continue to behave in the way they were behaving even after I asked some in particular to stop talking or to pay attention. At the end of her observation, she actually took one student with her because he was just being disrespectful and very disruptive (he's one of my behaviour kids and was recently diagnosed with Aspergers AND ADHD). Anyhow, I had spoken to him multiple times and he did not stop. I didn't feel too badly about that because I told briefly told her that he has just been diagnosed and that I had requested for the Aspergers/Austism specialist come see me to help me put a plan in place for him but we had no luck with a meeting time yet. I think I didn't do as well as I feel I could do, probably because I was feeling really self conscious with her there. I'm going to have to revisit that lesson, especially after my "personal review" on it.. (I think I'm going through brain block right now because I can't think of what I wanted to fix)
Anyways, that's all for now.
posted by jaryee @ 10:57 a.m.
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