...makes the heart grow fonder.
I'm preparing to be absent for two days this week from the classroom for curriculum meetings at the district office. A teacher absence is not easy any which way you look at it. From the substitute's point of view, they have to come into a classroom they don't know, with students they don't know, learn a lesson in a short period of time, and try to conduct procedures as closely to the teacher's as possible. From the student's point of view, sometimes they have to be patient with someone learning the procedures and protocols, they are expected (and most often follow through) to be respectful, helpful, avoiding the "what can I get away with?" type mentality. For me, I worry about both the sub and the students, wanting both parties to have a good day. I don't think I've ever written sub plans and prepped my room and materials in under 2 hours.
After my meetings I'll go back to school and check in to see how the day went via sub reports; I can't sleep through the night otherwise. As I'm writing this I'm thinking, I need to relax. PJ thinks I'm shortening our life together with the weight of my worry. I hate that he has to say this in order for my perspective to broaden a bit, in order for me to take a deep breath and repeat my mantra, "everything will be alright."
Because it will. Because it always is.
I'm preparing to be absent for two days this week from the classroom for curriculum meetings at the district office. A teacher absence is not easy any which way you look at it. From the substitute's point of view, they have to come into a classroom they don't know, with students they don't know, learn a lesson in a short period of time, and try to conduct procedures as closely to the teacher's as possible. From the student's point of view, sometimes they have to be patient with someone learning the procedures and protocols, they are expected (and most often follow through) to be respectful, helpful, avoiding the "what can I get away with?" type mentality. For me, I worry about both the sub and the students, wanting both parties to have a good day. I don't think I've ever written sub plans and prepped my room and materials in under 2 hours.
After my meetings I'll go back to school and check in to see how the day went via sub reports; I can't sleep through the night otherwise. As I'm writing this I'm thinking, I need to relax. PJ thinks I'm shortening our life together with the weight of my worry. I hate that he has to say this in order for my perspective to broaden a bit, in order for me to take a deep breath and repeat my mantra, "everything will be alright."
Because it will. Because it always is.
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