1 Quarter of education has now been online- No we didn't start right away. Yes we had the most pointless spring break ever, but I've still been at home for 10 weeks.
Going into this week I have
16 hours of meetings/training scheduled
6 hours of teaching classes/labs
8 hours of 1:1 meetings with students
3 hours- time I've set aside for my online learning- I did finish a lot over the weekend.
Monday other than my morning meeting was good- long but good. All but 1 kid showed up to my 1:1 meetings, class went well today, meetings with staff went well today. I feel supported and the data collection training was interesting because I'm a nerd and I like that stuff.
Some people like 7:30 am meetings- it gets them going- I am not one of these people. I am not a morning person. I do my best work in the afternoon and early evening. It just makes me day longer and more draining. Monday and Tuesday had these types of meetings...Tuesdays was a bad call after the 12 hour work day.
So I did my 7:30 am meeting on Tuesday and then I called in sick, because if the teacher can't keep her eye open that's not a good sign. I am learning it's OKAY to take sick time even when you work from home and that you don't have to attend EVERY training.
I love Wednesdays. I get to sleep in. They are GREAT! Today was an ADULT MEETING HEAVY DAY. I don't mind meetings. But meetings with students are far more engaging and a more joyful use of my time. But at least most of these meetings felt productive.
My WEA training on the other hand started to feel very UNPRODUCTIVE. I don't take paper data. I got the whole team shifted over to digital data collection this year...why would I go back? I also felt like the training was really heavily focused on 1) elementary needs and 2) EBD/profound needs. Every example and option that was provided doesn't represent the students that I work with or the type of strength based goals we try to write. So rather than sit through a training I don't find useful, I didn't. If history repeats itself I will still get the clock hours from the day I did attend- but I wont count them towards my running totals.
Thursday- Hit a wall week....10 weeks of being stuck at home- even for a homebody is too much. My internet works but cannot handle the workload of streaming and teaming and zooming all of the time. I keep getting kicked out of my own meetings, unable to hear students or having it all be so choppy that there's really no point in trying to meet. - Had a class, a few productive student meetings, a few student meetings I got stood up for, some staff planning, a staff meeting and a union meeting to cap off the day. I really need that 3 day weekend.
Friday- The theme of today was connecting with the kids that have been the hard to connect with kids. I connected, we made plans, we reviewed previous plans, we are getting on track to pass classes and it felt successful and positive and a really good way to end the week. Today ended the week on a good note.
At the end of this week:
15 hours meetings/training
3 hours of classes/labs
4.5 hours of 1:1 student time actually attended by students
3 hours of me waiting for 30 minutes a session for students to log into meetings.
1 student meeting canceled because of AP testing
2 hours of Online learning
1 day sick day
Lesson of the week- Start blocking out LUNCH on my calendar so people cant book me straight through from 9am-4pm because its happening...
Clock hour stuff- mostly self-accountability if I'm honest.
I needed a distraction from reality this weekend so I joined the other 2 free canvas courses.
Seriously any WA state teacher, you should do it (if you're out of state, we are probably a clock hour provided for your state so check it out). Getting my 15 STEM hours because really when else am I going to do them? And then a simple 4 hour de-escalation course- because I need to de-escalate myself most days.
Clock hours earned this week:
High Leverage Practices- eLearning through Evergreen- 30 clock hours
De-escalation practices- WEA Canvas course- 4 clock hours
Staff meeting- District- 1 clock hour
Total hours: 35
Previously completed hours: 41
Total: 76 clock hours
Upcoming/need to complete clock hours
All Roads lead to employment- Evergreen eLearning (11)-4 modules left- this will take me all 11 hours to complete-maybe more...
STEM Course-WEA (15)
I'm so close to my 100 hour goal...
Alright another week in the books
Signing off for now
-C
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