Yesterday I spent the whole school day at the beach with a bunch of 16 and 17yearolds. The weather was fabulous and they were highly confused and stressed. They were doing an NCEA assessment, a population study looking at zonation of a species and also age structure of a species. They just had to do their sampling yesterday and they have three in class periods to do their write-up. It was all fine, the more senior teachers had it all sorted, which is good as the last time I did this type of assessment I was IN 6th form at school and it was different, the teachers were allowed to give more direction. I CURSE YOU NCEA!! Then after the beach I went home and cooked, burger patties and roast potatoes! ALtho we had fresh brocolli as well.
Today there is a different type of stress... I have Parent/Teacher Interviews today. My first ones. In this school the students are invited to come along with their teachers. I never got to attend mine so this really is my FIRST Parent/Teacher Interviews. Please any parents/ future parents who read this, try to realise that we as teachers probably find the interviews worse than some of the kids, new teachers like me anyway. On the plus side, unlike in a primary school the parents will only see each teacher for a maximum of 5 minutes, and even with this system I'll be seeing less than half the students in my class. We are actually doing our interviews over two days so I will be going through this again on Monday next week. BRRRR.
I will look forward to my birthday. I must! Not to mention no teaching on Friday, got ANOTHER course.
Posted by giffy at March 23, 2004 02:42 PM | TrackBack