Today I got my first taste of what some LTs had been talking about in terms of surprise field trips. It appears we have a field trip to the supermarket tomorrw. This is some thing the Arabic teachers were well aware of 'cause there are like a million papers that some through as the day goes on- all in Arabic, yea, even the ones that require my signature- and it was on one of them. Gotta love it. But so tomorrow at 10am we go to the store to look at fruits and veggies.
Today was tiring. I have one student who is clearly developmentally delayed and decided today would be the day to test me. Poor baby. He didn't know any better. I don't back down very easily. He'll grow to love me and I him. That's just how it works out for me. I love the difficult ones. However, we were warned to look past lots of behaviors or get a cleaner to handle it, least we get in trouble. What is a cleaner? Well they are a group a women that clean the school among other things. There is always one outside of each classroom to run errands, take the kids places and clean up basically. As an early childhood teacher I'm so accustomed to making sure my room is clean...a task I do everyday but here it's a bit different. The cleaners come in early, unlock the school and clean. They go into the classrooms when we are out for breakfast and clean. They go back again after the teachers and kids leave and clean.
The current fight at the school is for more time. We are expected to deliver amazing results but we're not allowed in the building(I am until I move to Ghayathi) till about 715(assembly begins at 730) and must be out at 2. The kids leave at 1230 but then we are in meetings from 1245 till 2, at which point we are kicked out of the building. There seems to be a lack of understanding of teacher prep time. Oh well, we're leaving that to our head of faculty and the principal.
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