AND...it's off to Formosa again! This time not to lead PD sessions, but to work on all the amazing stuff we gathered at the last 2 PD sessions.
So, Cheryl and I slogged through heaps and piles of paper these last 2 days. It was much, much easier this time however! Poor Francine was home sick so we took over her lovely corner office, the one with the nice chairs, carpeted floors, huge windows, phone lines and internet connections. Ah bliss! I'm far too used to working in my classroom, with no space and no comfy chairs and 10000 interruptions!
First, we had a sit down planning session where we looked at what needed to get accomplished. Then, we dove in. Fortified by Valentine's day cake, chocolates, coffee, and left over chili, we worked long and hard.
We managed to:
-fix the rubric (yes again...I'm starting to HATE this rubric!)
-sit with Claire and moderate another SK piece of writing
-sit with Scott and moderate another 2 Grade 8 pieces of writing
-type up all the rationales the teachers gave us for each piece of writing for each grade level . If you're keeping track that's 4 rationales for each grade.
-photocopy the student work onto paper with proper heading. This often meant shrinking the work down to size, cutting it with scissors, taping into onto the proper paper and photocopying it.
-fill in mileage sheets
-fill in paperwork to be reimbursed for office supplies, prizes and pop
-fix and send out the prompts for the next writing tasks
-download pictures to the blog
-clean up poor Francine's office
And then we also managed to do all these things that are not related to the project, but that fell in Cheryl's lap because she was the Teacher in Charge, (seeing as Francine was sick!)
-re-organize the Valentine's dance so that the Gr 8's at the school were happy
- triage a variety of sick children who arrived at our office door
- do yard duty
-do bus duty
-deal with several behaviour issues
-speak to some kids about a bus issue
-fix up some supply teacher problems
-figure out creative ways to get Claire and Scott released from their classrooms so they could help us to moderate for awhile. At one point Cheryl was even teaching Scott's class, so Scott and I could wrap up some stuff.
The only thing we didn't accomplish was to PLAN FOR TEACHING OUR CLASSES when we get back to school next week! I guess we'll have to do that on the weekend!
