I figure once it gets past 6:30 am I'm not getting called. So this morning I hadn't been called and fell back asleep, feeling sad that I didn't get work two days in a row. Then, as I'm drifting off into deep sleep my phone rings. At 7:38am. And someone has just called in to the middle school so I'm off. I had to shower and get ready quick and try to be there as soon as possible.
This particular school is so annoying - they just say the teacher's name, not what that person teaches, and today I only got a room number. It was a support classroom for 6th graders and the aide hadn't arrived at school yet even though it was 8:45am. This did not start the day off well for the kids. They definitely thought they were getting off easy - no one knew there was no teacher in the room for a while.
So the students were already revved up thinking they'd have no teacher. Then I arrive and try to get them to do some work, even though the teacher didn't leave any plans. This threw them off their game and I almost got them to do some work at which point the aide arrived. This caused a ruckus as they all greeted her. She took over the class at this point and I felt relegated to "shushing duty".
I usually like it when the aide takes control of the room because she knows the kids and knows what kind of work needs to be done. Especially on a day like today when the teacher is unexpectedly out and leaves no plans. But today I felt ignored and slightly disrespected. I'm not totally sure why, but I did.
Thankfully it was a half day so I arrived at 8:45am and left at 12pm. A very short day but thank goodness I got some work.
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