So my last post was saying how rubbish it was being on supply, and how things have changed this month! Things started off slow, but they have picked up and I have been working more or less full time which is awesome!
The advantages of supply work is that you get to meet so many teachers and children and it really opens your eyes to the world and what is out there. This month I have been to some new schools and I have loved them (even though there was a hiccup with my satnav and traffic a few times!). It can be hard going into a school and not knowing what it is going to be like, but on the whole I have been lucky with the staff being very welcoming! I have also been back to some of the schools I was in last term and it is nice to know that the staff remember you can they are happy that you are back. I must be doing something right then!
Another advantage is you can really pick up so many different ideas and I have been collecting different things on my travels, not just things that I want to do but also things that I wouldn't do. I mean really who would go into school when they have phoned in poorly just to tell the supply teacher what to teach and how to teach it?! It really happened, honestly, I was amazed. On the other hand I have seen a new way that maths is taught with each kid having their own kit and it being very practical which was amazing and the kids really got it, but it is something that you could do in any class even if you hadn't bought into the course!
I've also been teaching quite a few mixed classes this term which has been interesting. I have found it hard sometimes to teach the lessons and really admire the teachers who do it year in and year out. I haven't had to plan anything for it but it must be hard to get the work right for 2 or 3 years in the same class.
I think I need a rant now about agencies, it's only a short one but surely they should check carefully if work has been set as I have turned up to some schools and have been told that work is set and then found out that it isn't, luckily I have had some activities that the kids can do and that have turned out quite well, but it is annoying. And also surely when you have been booked you should not have it cancelled, especially not cancelled on the day you are going. It has happened a few times and I have turned down other work which is really annoying.
It's nearly half term now and then the kids get a break which is well deserved and us teachers get a chance to take our foot off the gas and just chill for a week! I am so looking forward to it because I am off to Spain! :) I am going to complete one of my goals for the year and visit my friend, Faye, in Spain and see how she is getting on teaching over there. I'm quite excited because we can go and look at her school and see what it is like and how it works so it should be good. Maybe I'll get some good ideas to bring back and share, who knows!
Well January was busy in the end and February has started the same way so I am hoping that it carries on that way! Hopefully over the next month I will be able to share some resources and actual lessons with you, when I get chance to sit down and actually type them up myself!
Right, I'm off to watch the rest of the Superbowl! Night xx
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