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By HappyHiker

I expect her to miss "unexpectedly" next week. I think by Wednesday she'll be sick of it and won't show up on at least one of the remaining two days. If she is late next week, I'm going to meet her at the door with the
absentee form in hand. Maybe I'll say something like, "I was beginning to think you had backed out on us." If she does make it through next week, she still has four days of teaching the next week. One of those days is a field trip. Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow I'll ask her if she has any questions about next week. If she does, we'll talk. If she says no, I'll drop it. I'll ask

her if she has all the material she needs. That will cover my butt as well. That way she can't blame me for not offering to assist. I think she doesn't have a clue what it takes to fill the day. I think she believes that filling in those squares for her "plans" is all she has to do. Never mind putting thought into the lesson, how long it will take, organizing the lesson into some kind of sequence that makes sense and works for the kids. She's lazy. She's not going to spend any time thinking about how to do the best job. She's just going to try to survive the day/week. She's been having trouble with even keeping up with the kids' energy level through just one subject. Somedays she seems to peter out after just 15 minutes. Other days she seems to ramble on and on about nothing when she just needs to end it and sit down. The kids had tuned out 30 minutes before she finished.

She said her advisor only required her to do five written out lesson plans. She didn't go by them anyway. She used the same plan each time really. All she did was change the objective and the page number. It's a really bad lesson template that her college uses if you ask me. Of course, no one did, including anyone from her college. On one of the plans she did the date like this: April 7-8, 2008. ?????
I didn't like that. Like I said, she didn't go by those plans anyway. Most of the time what she ends up doing doesn't resemble what she writes down. Half the time she gets up and says, "I changed my mind."

Our tests end tomorrow. After that, the kids normally take on the attitude that school is over for the year. Of course, I normally put an end to that way of thinking immediately. I'm thinking they are going to eat her alive. If she is late, I'm considering having them sit in the hall and wait on her. That's what happens when one of my neighbor teachers is late. The rest of us have to keep an eye on them until she can get there. That rarely happens, however. I will not leave the room while ST is in there with them. I expect her to pull the old, "I'm going to have to stay in from recess and grade papers" line. That's when I'll say, "I'm sorry. You need to experience what it's like to be a real teacher. Most of the time that means loading up a bunch of papers to take home to grade. It also means doing your planning during your planning time or at home."

I kind of doubt that her plans really mean anything to her. She tried to right them so that they looked like mine. Of course, I've been doing this a while. My way makes sense to me, but probably not many other people. When I have to have a sub, I have to rewrite my plans so that another person could even start to use them.