I almost didn’t take the subbing job for today, but my brother convinced me that it would be no big deal. Todays job was with Industrial technology. I know nothing about industrial technology. One of my brothers is a welder and the other is going into woodworking, but I still have no idea what these classes are like. My younger brother told me it would be no problem because they are not allowed to touch the machines with the teacher is gone, and that they usually just watch movies when their teacher is gone.
When I got to the school and found the industrial tech area It took me a while to find the classroom. I got to a classroom, then realized that I had misread the schedule. At my district, some of the classes are blocked, but most of the classes are on a normal bell schedule. These classes are blocked, and I had never had to deal with the blocked schedule at this school. Next I had to find the teacher’s office. There were a couple of offices in this area but they were not labeled. I asked the students sitting in the open space where the teacher’s office was and they pointed to an office where a child was sitting, I went in the office to look for the lesson plans but saw nothing. Next I found another teacher and asked if they new where the teacher I was subbing for might leave his lesson plans, he helped me look but we found nothing. Finally the teacher I was subbing for came into his office and told me he was trying to get everything together. He walked me through the day and wished me luck. Basically these students were copying down some directions then they were to watch Mythbusters. This wouldn’t be a problem except the students had watched these episodes many times before as there were only two DVDs for subs to play when the teacher was absent. This creates bored students, which allows for students to misbehave.
Once again this wouldn’t be a big problem accept for the fact that the shop class is the same room as the auto shop and the garage door was open for a few hours on one of the colder days of the year. My students asked another teacher if we could use his classroom, as he didn’t have a class, thank goodness he agreed. He also offered his class for the rest of the day as his students would be working on a project and it wouldn’t disturb them if we were in there doing work. Really these students behaved okay, but my question is, why can’t industrial tech teachers have something productive for their students to do for when they are gone. If they can’t have something for their students to do, can they at least have a video that the students haven’t watched over and over again.
Also this class is the first I have had to deal with the travel issue between the two high schools. If a class, like industrial tech has students from both schools then they will have two grade books, and two attendance books. When I took attendance there was a student that wasn’t on the roster. It took me a while to realize he was probably from the other high school and that I needed to log into another PowerSchool account to count him present. There was no mention of this in the sub plans, and I also talked to another sub who had no idea about this.
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