I'm on an upswing right now. I'm very motivated to do work: I want to correct papers, create lessons, organize my teaching spaces. And I'm willing to stay very late at school to do all of these things. It's funny how motivation comes in waves. I suppose all I can do is ride this wave and get caught up or (dare I say it) ahead before I lose this impulse.
My desk is finally cleared of all the student work and left-over photocopies from last semester. My entire semester's work is collected and organized into 19 binders and two notebooks. In terms of organization, I started this semester well. (Knock on wood...) I've been keeping up with the cool downs... for the most part. And I've been putting my absent students' missing work and notes into their absent files, so that I don't need to scramble when they show up the next day asking "if they missed anything yesterday." (Boy that drives me nuts! Of course you missed something!!! Do you think we just sat here doing nothing because you were absent?? Ok, I'm done...)
The aide who's working in my fourth block class has been taking notes while I lecture so that I can photocopy and hand out this information to the missing students as well. That has been extremely helpful. Overall, having the aide in the class has been great! She really knows her stuff. Though I'm always a little shocked when she asks me how she should handle different situations. It always catches me off guard. Especially since, from my internship last year, I'm so used to a co-teaching atmosphere where I'm the one asking questions.
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