Substitute Tails - Was Subbing ESOL today at an elementary school. I showed up about a half hour before school started and went into the classroom searching for lesson plans. Located them. It turned out that I had a planning period first thing and the school did the Pledge of Allegiance and sang the school song in their gymnasium as a group 10 minutes before school started, so I headed down that way to watch the proceedings. I came across a young teacher I knew from my union involvement and was asking where I would meet my first group of kids and she looked at the lesson plan sheet that I had and it was for the wrong teacher. It turned out that one of the ESOL teachers had been out all week sick and a family member of another had died and so the other two were taking the morning off for the funeral and the classroom that I thought was all mine, was shared by all three. So of an ESOL department made up of three teachers, and one Para, the only one there for the morning was going to be the Para. Fortunately, one of the Subs had been there all week so far, so she sort of knew the game plan and I now had 10 minutes to figure my new plans out. Fortunately, I got very lucky. I only had to teach one one-hour morning class and then spend the teachers planning time getting her caught up by making a bunch of copies for her. It was interesting. I worked with 8 little tykes that were probably 2nd or 3rd graders and we worked with and discussed three and four letter words that had vowel sounds in them and I explained what the heck some of them meant. (Its amazing how unusual some three letter words can be and how difficult they can be to explain to a bunch of kids that age who are relatively new to the English language. Words such as bid. (Then you wind up explaining an auction.) ;)
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 04:13:30 +0000
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