The Numbers This Year

It's that time again. This is the post that took an entire school year to complete. My subbing stories all led to this: all the classes I covered this past school year. (I do this post for me. I understand if you don't want to wade through all this data.) 

There are 180 days in the school year. I worked 173 of them. This is up from last year's total of 166, but not quite at my all-time high of 177. Having long-term assignments helped there, especially as I started the year in a long-term, so those first couple weeks, usually a slow time, were booked. 

This total does not include the two days of prep time they allowed me before the beginning of the school year. (As I was opening a seventh grade science class, I asked for and was granted prep time to set up. Which was sorely needed and so very much appreciated.) I didn't catch any other summer school classes. 

I worked 100 days in high school classes, 66 days in middle school classes, and 5 days at the continuation high school (3 of those in the last two weeks of school). I only covered one day at the adult transition center and one day at the alternative education center. 

9 of those days I covered an extra class (including the choir class when the school got notified about the death of a student), and 6 of those classes didn't have a prep period. I used to get a whole lot of these extra classes, but since moving to a block schedule (and after the severe sub shortage of Covid), the schools use the full-time teachers for these more. Part of me misses the extra pay, the other part likes not having to cover classes on prep periods all the time. 

I did work the first day of school, but I did not work the last. 

Before I get to the specifics, some definitions. A "full day" means that's a class I covered all that day. A "partial day" means the teacher taught more than one kind of class (like an English teacher having two periods of 11th grade and one period of 10th). An "extra period" is where I left the class I was covering to cover a different teacher. 

Each subject is listed with three numbers, like 3/8/1. The first number is for a "full day", the second for a "partial day", and the third is for an "extra period". 

• My big winner for this year is English, of course. As it is pretty much every year. (Last year's 3rd place finish was an anomaly.) 45/0/2
• Most classes covered: ELD (English language development) with 0/34/0. Not really surprising as the long term English class had two periods of this, plus the other ELD classes I picked up along the way. It seems that no English teacher only teaches ELD.
• For 2nd place, again, no surprise: 11th grade 0/31/0. Because the long term was 11th grade the rest of the time.
• 3rd place is: 8th grade 3/0/0
• The rest in no particular order:
• 7th grade 1/3/0
• 9th grade 1/2/1
• 10th grade 1/2/1
• 12th grade 0/2/0
• Study skills 0/0/1 (taught by an English teacher, so housed under English)
• 2nd place, unsurprisingly, goes to science. I opened the school year with a long-term assignment in science, so I'd've been surprised if it wasn't in the top three this year. 41/4/1
• As the long term was 7th grade science, 7th grade science is the most worked 31/5/1
• The other classes are negligible, so in no special order:
• 8th grade 0/3/0
• Health 1/1/0
• Biology 0/1/0
• Chemistry 0/3/0
• Physics 2/0/0
• Anatomy/Physiology 0/1/0
• Forensics/Criminalistics 0/2/0
• Environmental Science 0/3/0
• Patient Care Technician 0/1/0
• I'm going to list math next, even though math and social studies... Well, you'll see. Math 21/27/0
• IM2 (integrated math 2) is the big winner here, due to two different classes, one vacant, one not 7/31/0
• Then IM1 0/14/0
• 7th grade 0/8/0
• 8th grade 1/4/0
• Math analysis 0/1/0
• Statistics 0/6/0
• I'm listing social studies last, even though it's kind of a tie with math. That special ed long-term I did for the vacant class was both math and social studies. 12/24/1
• 10th grade world history wins here as it was the topic of the classes in the long-term 0/21/0
• 8th grade U.S. history is next 1/13/0
• Geography (one of the classes in the three weeks' assignment in January) 1/9/0
• 7th grade world history 0/5/1
• 11th grade U.S. history 0/1/0
• Psychology (which I list here as it's usually taught by social studies teachers, as it was in this case) 0/6/0
• Special ed is next. Many of these days overlap with the above as I might cover the special ed co-teacher in a math class (where I also count that as a math day). Or, as was the case in February, I might be covering an SDC world history class. 31/3/2
• SDC (special day class) 19/6/0
• Co-teach (where I covered the special ed teacher in a two teacher class) 1/16/2
• Learning center (a one-period assignment where I monitor the room where kiddos can take tests in a separate setting) 0/5/0
• Mod to severe special ed (the really "low" groups) 2/0/0
• The rest are the various elective classes, in no particular order:
• Computer classes 1/2/0, with business (read: typing and such) 1/0/0 and graphic arts (doing art on the computer) 0/2/0
• Art 2/0/0, including photography 1/0/0 (the basic usual drawing class is just plain art). 
• AVID (advancement via individual determination) 0/1/0
• Success 0/1/0
• Credit recovery 0/2/0
• CTE (career and technical education) 3/1/1 (there are a couple classes that were hard to classify, so they ended up here). 
• Woodshop 0/2/0
• Auto shop 1/0/0
• Spanish 1/0/0
• French 6/0/0
• Athletics (any sport) 0/3/0
• Music (only choir this year) 1/0/1 (I'd list band under this umbrella too, but no band classes covered this year).
• TV/Video production 0/2/0
• Leadership 0/5/0, which includes ASB 0/1/0, WEB (middle school "we all belong") 0/1/0, and Link Crew (older students mentor younger students) 0/1/0
• And one roving day 1/0/0

That's another year in the books. Now it's time to enjoy my summer break. 

And here's the stats from previous years:

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• 2019
• 2018
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• 2016
• 2015
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• 2012
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