I'm at June Jordan for the first time. Unfortunetly the math teacher left me the "watch movies" sub plan. At least the movie is academic in nature "The BIG History of Everything." But it's unrelated to math, so it's hard to get the students to take it seriously. But much better than my horror film watching at Visitation Valley Middle School last week, with the students that couldn't attend the 8th grade ski trip. That was a trying day.
Luckily June Jordan seems like a good school with great kids that are pretty motivated, so it hasn't been a difficult day. But so boring! I've watched the same movie three times. I hate "baby sitting" with movies. I'd much prefer the challenge of trying to get the students to learn on a day their teacher is absent. It's a great feeling to develop enough of a positive relationship with students, in a short amount of time, that they will actually allow you to instruct them.
I've only covered a few non-elementry classes so far, since starting the last week of school in Dec. 2013. While I don't want to teach elementry school, I think I enjoy subbing there more than middle or high school, since the teachers generally seem to leave real sub plans. I'll keep trying for high school sub positions, but if movie watching becomes the norm, I'll stick to elementary schools. Elementry sub positions also seem to be a lot more available.
