I decided to title this 'A Day in the Life' rather than 'A Typical Day in the Life' because everyday teaching is different. Having variety in schedules is exciting, exhausting, confusing, interesting and a lot of other things too :) Of course there's some structure with the general class schedules so here's how the day went one day this week:
5:20am - wake up!
5:25am - start making breakfast and talk with one of my housemates, who is also a teacher, about the upcoming school day.
5:40am - continue eating breakfast in my room while watching an episode of Hart of Dixie
6:10am - fill up my pockets with the materials that I need at school today. I like to think of my pockets as a tool belt. I take 3 erasable markers, 5 pencils, 3 pens, 30 reward tickets leftover from yesterday, wallet, phone, keys, water jug (unfortunately doesn't fit in pocket), and wireless remote.
6:20am - put everything in my car and begin the drive to school.
6:25am - call my girlfriend to talk about the upcoming day at school. She's a teacher too!
7:00am - arrive at school. Sign in at main office, chat with a few teachers and head to my classroom.
7:15am - write the agenda for the day, organize homework assignments, set up PowerPoint and fill up water jug with water.
7:50am - first period starts. There's state re-testing today that's going to start sometime during 1st Period. Half my class will leave for the state re-testing.
8:30am - students are called for state re-testing. There'll be a few students missing from each of my next few classes who are re-taking a state test that they need to graduate from high school. It's a good opportunity for them to show what they've learned from when they previously took one of the state tests.
8:50am - second period starts. We're going over graphing linear and quadratic inequalities with real-life situations. It's pretty cool, talking about Kendrick Lamar's album sales and deer hunting.
9:50am - geometry class finding missing sides and angles using trigonometric functions. This is fun!...at least for me :) students seem to be doing pretty well with it.
10:50am - algebra II with seniors. We review graphing for awhile, talk a little about college, and work in small groups. A good period.
11:50am - my lunch break/planning period. What do we begin with? Definitely lunch.
12:30pm - organize assignments collected so far during the day. Tonight there's gonna be a one person grading party.
1:20pm - sixth period algebra II with sophomores and juniors. A little routy today. One student sent to the office.
2:20pm - seventh period geometry. A little routy today too. One student getting a write-up who just got a write-up last week. He's pretty good academically but just likes to goof off too much. I pull him aside at the end of class and remind him that I know he can act better and that he needs to be a leader in the classroom.
3:30pm - end of school. Clean up the room a little. Mr. Graham the janitor comes in to sweep up the room and we talk about fishing and football.
4:00pm - on the road towards home. It's raining a little but not much.
4:40pm - go to Walmart to get school supplies and food stuffs.
5:10pm - get home, make dinner, relax with roommates.
7:00pm - start grading
8:00pm - finish grading, look over lessons for tomorrow
8:30pm - print lesson materials for tomorrow
8:40pm - talk to girlfriend
9:30pm - go unto Lumosity and do some brain training. Watch a few Hulu and YouTube clips.
10:30pm - go to sleep
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