A slow first month but a busy 2nd week

My first month began with a week filled with review, followed by 2 days of testing in which no material was taught. The material that I didn’t not teach last week will have to be crammed into 2 days this week instead of 3 (MWF normally) because Friday we are having an all day Halloween party.

Thankfully, tomorrow I have 2 hours to prepare and finaggle my schedule to see just how I can make all this material fit into 2 days when normally there are 3 or 4 days to cover it. I expect it won’t be as difficult as I think it may be now. I will have the other teachers there as well to help me figure out how to handle all this stuff. I’m so glad to have them around.

Last weekend I brought home the monthly calendar, which is divided into weeks, and entered each class period into google calendar. There are 6 total periods per day, so I set up a recurring event for each period to last until next year, and then I will edit them as needed with each new calendar I receive. In hindsight…I should have done it by semester. Oh well, I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Having the material that I need to cover each day clearly planned out in front of me before I get to school not only frees up time for other things before class, but means I will know exactly what I have to do just by logging into google calendar.

It amazes the other teachers when they see this stuff. It works better for me than writing down what to do every day in the book, and we all have our own systems.