Tag: work
member name: Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R.
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October 17, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
I work in the night high school - from 4-9 p.m. The students are HUNGRY!
Even though we are told that there is NO eating in the classroom, I provide snacks. There is great 99 cent store near me . . .
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December 01, 2007 06:39 AM EST --
I teach a few levels of special education students. I have two classes of "self-contained" science. These students are ONLY with other special ed. students in class. I . . .
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December 27, 2007 07:59 AM EST --
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-Aristotle
from beliefnet.com
I am realizing that the opposite is true - lack of pleasure leads to lack of perfection in the work...
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November 10, 2007 06:08 AM EST --
my crazy work schedule
aka - no wonder I am SO tired.
Mondays - I work regular hours unless there's a meeting - I usually go out to dinner and a movie with a friend
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March 22, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
I've already mentally scheduled retirement for next February. I am SO sick of work - all aspects of it. If I leave in July, I'd been told I'd forfeit about $4000 in pension . . .
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March 29, 2008 06:30 AM EDT --
or I can be such a softy sometimes...
The educational system works well because veteran teachers help out newer teachers. Usually I just give out material, but once in a while, I take over a class . . .
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March 15, 2008 05:55 PM EDT --
The weather in the spring in NYC can be VERY changable. One day in the upper 50s, the next with snow and freezing winds. So planning a trip to
the zoo is an iffy process. We watched the weather forcast . . .
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April 12, 2008 08:15 PM EDT --
All last week, we've been watching the local weather report - rain, heavy at times all day long, soaking rain, thundershowers the whole day, rain starting Friday and continuing through Saturday... . . .
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December 08, 2007 04:23 PM EST --
... to the museum
(American Museum of Natural History - www.amnh.org )
With four students and another teacher... I am so glad I'd bought the membership - family style - for two adults . . .
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September 22, 2007 09:34 PM EDT --
It was a hard sell. Saturday morning at 9 a.m.! There were only two students who finally went. Both young men had gone on the trips in the summer, so they basically knew what to expect. . . .
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October 04, 2007 05:49 PM EDT --
Last Spring I bought a wonderful card game to play with my students. It plays like rummy, but instead of numbers on the cards there are letters. The players have to make words with the letters . . .
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October 08, 2007 04:17 PM EDT --
I have almost 30 years in the classroom.
Many teachers are just starting out.
I have been doing so much handholding, prompting, coaching and mentoring. I give materials, share tips on . . .
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October 09, 2007 03:41 PM EDT --
All teachers, no matter how long they have been working, have to be observed. At my level that equals once in a school year. Usually it's put off until the last minute, hurried through . . .
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November 06, 2007 05:36 AM EST --
How can an employer excuse getting an employee sick?
We had a fire drill yeterday afternoon... I had to hurry the students down the stairs. While filing through the doors, we had to walk under the alarm . . .
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November 11, 2007 10:43 AM EST --
This is my first day "off" this week. The first day when I really DON'T have to wake up in the dark and make my way to work.
I slept in - for the first time in YEARS. . . .
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January 05, 2008 01:20 PM EST --
I worked for three hours with one of my favorite students! ONE!
I coordinate the final exam for my science classes - photocopied, added a cover sheet, stapled...
I photocopied and stapled the final exam . . .
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September 03, 2009 08:40 PM EDT --
Over 10 years ago, I served on the grand jury for the first time. Since I live in Manhattan, many of the crime victims (those who give testimony often for the grand jury) speak Spanish, and there . . .
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August 30, 2007 05:57 AM EDT --
The summer vacation ends... As of last year, the teachers in NYC report to work the last two days of August. What's funny, we now have three or four days at the ends of the terms to sit around . . .
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September 17, 2007 06:24 AM EDT --
Working in the NYC public education system, since many of the teachers are Jewish, we get some of the Jewish holidays off from work - especially Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur at the beginning . . .
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October 28, 2007 05:52 AM EDT --
Madame Tusaud's Wax Museum and Red Lobster
This was the second trip in October - and I figured the best idea right before Halloween.
I'd never been to either pace, so they . . .
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