The Last Day at CLP as a Temporary.

It is late in the afternoon and I am sitting in the North Fork Computer Lab at CLP. School let out a couple of hours ago, and I have been sitting here trying to get some of my projects done that are due this week. I have had limited success.

Today was nice. It was good to be back at "my school" after having been away for two weeks. Unfortunately, I have no idea what is going on with the kids. They are working on projects that I don't even understand, but I should get back into the swing of things quickly, starting next week.

Mr. Jewett and I have started seriously reviewing our courses and deciding which ones I will be running and which ones I will be observing. The one thing that I know for sure is that our 1st Period Computer I class, made up of seventh graders, will be switching out at the quarter break and we will be getting a new group of kids. This will be my class, from the very beginning. I have done some research and there will be 14 kids, 4 girls and 10 boys. They already have login IDs and email, so that will make life a little easier. We start in full time next Tuesday (Monday is a holiday or something.)

Of our other classes, I will be teaching the Computer Skills Class (sort of a Computer "1 1/2" class for 8th graders.) I will also likely be teaching Computer Productions (2 classes.) These classes are working on such things as webpages, graphics, etc. These two classes will likely be the classes in which I will do the Graphic Arts project that creates the Art Gallery in the Computer Lab.

I will likely be continuing to observe Mr. Jewett in the two Computer Graphics and Web Design classes. Those two classes started working in Macromedia Flash today. This is a program that helps with the creation of graphic movies. I have to admit, I got lost pretty quickly.

It sounds like there are a number of kids, especially in the 8th Period Computer Skills class that are anxious for me to start being their teacher. They think that I will be nicer than Mr. Jewett. Ha. From what I understand, one young lady in the class, M., kind of broke down last week and cried in class, saying that Mr. Jewett was picking on her and she wished that I was teaching instead. She is very talkative and Mr. Jewett sometimes loses patience with her disruptions. As I remembered her name on the first day of school, she has been a big fan of mine since then. I have tried to talk with her a couple of times regarding her talking in class and she does seem to quiet down when I am around. She seemed very happy to see me today.

I met with Jay, another PP member, for much of my planning period in the library. He was shadowing his student, much like I did a month or so ago. We agreed that neither one of us is caught up and that we are likely to be late on our upcoming projects or turn in crap, whichever our instructors deem is appropriate. I am just having a hard time getting everything done with my family responsibilities at hand.

It is getting late, I must go.

More later.