That End of School Year Stats Post

It's that time of year again--the end of the school year. And this is where I list all the various classes I covered this past school year. 

(I do this post for me. I understand if you don't want to wade through all the numbers.)

I did something different this year. I kept my tally on a Google Sheet as opposed to the paper method I've been using since 2012. (If anyone wants details, I can do a separate post next week.) 

There are 180 days in the school year. I worked 174 of them. This is less than my all time high of 177 for last year (but last year was very unusual). Five of those non-worked days occurred in the last two weeks of school (three from the last week and two from the week previous). The other day was a day I took off in September for no good reason.

That total does not include the 19 days (2 professional development and 17 days of class) I did for the summer academy last June, nor does it include the 3 days I worked at the continuation high school the first two weeks of August (one in social studies and two in the computer aided drafting class) before the school year officially began.

I worked 115 days in high school classes, 35 days in middle school classes, 16 days at the continuation high school, 4 1/2 days at the alternative education center, and 3 1/2 days at the adult transition center. (Half days? Yeah, that was an unusual day.) 

On 57 of those days, I covered a different class on my prep period. (That's way up from the last couple years, but it's lower than what was normal in the before times.) Only four of those days I covered for teachers that did not have a prep period.

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

More specifically, the list of classes I covered...

I reworked my definitions a bit this year. "Extra period" is specific to me covering a teacher's class for only one class. A "partial day" is when I covered the teacher for the whole day, but they didn't teach that class for the whole day. (So, "partial day" can be one period or more than one period.) I do way more "partial days" as most teachers don't teach the same thing all day.

So, the numbers listed are: covered full day/covered partial day/covered for an extra period only.

• As expected, my big "winner" for the year is English (it's almost always English) with 33 whole days, 18 partial days, and 12 extra periods.
• I covered 10th grade the most at 16 partial days and one extra period. 
• Then 11th grade comes in 2nd place with 8 whole days, 6 partial days, and 2 extra periods. 
• Next is ELD (or English language development--classes for students who are learning English) at 3 whole days, 5 partial days, and 2 extra periods.
• As for the rest of the grades:
• 7th: 4/3/2
• 8th: 2/5/2
• 9th: 2/4/7
• 12th: 0/6/1
• Yearbook: one partial day. (That teacher's rest of day was 10th grade English, which is why I'm including the stat here.)
• The next most covered subject is science. That's not surprising as I did a three-week assignment in chemistry in August/September. I did 31 whole days, 6 partial days, and 6 extra periods.
• The winner in this subject, naturally, is chemistry with 20 whole days, 2 partial days, and one extra period.
• Next is biology with one full day, five partial days, and two extra periods.
• The rest of the science classes:
• 7th grade science: 1/3/1
• 8th grade science: 0/0/4
• Health: 0/3/1
• Physics: 0/1/0
• Anatomy/physiology: 0/2/1
• Forensics: 0/1/0
• Environmental science: 1/1/0
• Intro to health careers: 0/2/1
• Then comes the social studies classes with 24 whole days, 1 partial day, and 3 extra periods.
• I've got a thee-way tie for first place here, so I'll just list everything:
• 7th grade world history: 0/4/2
• 8th grade U.S. history: 2/5/1
• Geography (9th grade): 0/8/0
• World history (10th grade): 1/7/0
• U.S. history (11th grade): 0/8/0
• Government (12th grade): 3/4/1
• Economics (12th grade): 0/3/0
• And math rounds out the required courses with 13 whole days, 5 partial days, and 13 extra periods. 
• The most covered class here is unsurprising as it's the class all high schoolers must take. Integrated math 1. (It's a combo of algebra and geometry. The harder components of algebra and geometry are a part of integrated math 2.) I had 6 whole days, 7 partial days, and 10 extra periods.
• As for the rest:
• 7th grade math: 0/2/0
• 8th grade math: 1/3/1
• IM2: 2/0/1
• IM3: 0/2/1
• Next I'm listing special ed, but some of these days overlap with the above. The RSP special ed teachers co-teach, so if I covered one of them, I tallied special ed plus the subject co-taught. I had 18 whole days, 1 partial day, and 23 extra periods. 
• Of those, I co-taught 5 whole days, 3 partial days, and 11 extra periods. (They tend to period sub co-teachers when possible as the other teacher can handle things and we subs are just in for crowd control.)
• Special day classes (where I was the only teacher and the classes were small) accounted for 5 whole days, 2 partial days, and 3 extra periods.
• The "severe" classes (these would be days at the adult transition center, but there are also some middle and high school classes) accounted for 4 full days and 7 extra periods. (Teachers who teach the "severe" special ed classes have the same group all day, so partial days don't really happen.) 
• This is rounded out with "learning center". The learning center is the one period a day when the special ed teacher covers a resource room where the special ed kiddos can go to take a test or work in a different room when needed. This is never a full day, but I covered 7 partial days (meaning on 7 special ed days, one of the classes I covered was this), and 3 extra periods. 
• Before I get into the electives as a whole, I must note the success seminar class. I covered about a month of it while the teacher was out on "baby bonding" with her 3-month old. That was 19 whole days. I also caught 3 extra periods of this throughout the rest of the school year.
• And finally, the electives. 
• Top elective: computer classes with 10 whole days, 5 partial days, and 3 extra periods. What are computer classes?
• Business (typing, accounting, etc.): 2/1/2
• Graphic art: 3/4/1
• Computer aided drafting: 2/0/0
• Esports: 2/0/0
• Then comes the art classes with 10 full days, one partial day, and one extra period. Included in this tally is:
• Photography: 0/1/0
• Ceramics: 6/0/1
• My third place in electives would be leadership with 9 partial days. Leadership classes are generally a one period commitment for the teacher, and most of those days were for the middle school leadership class I covered while doing those three weeks in April/May for the English teacher finishing up her maternity leave. Then:
• ASB: 0/8/0
• Link crew: 0/1/0
• As for the rest of the electives:
• Woodshop: 0/3/1
• Spanish: 6/0/2
• Drama: 0/0/2
• Athletics: 0/1/0
• Music: 1/0/2
• Band: 0/1/1
• Choir: 0/1/1
• TV/Video production: 0/1/0
• Credit recovery: 0/1/0
• Roving: 1/0/0

Sometimes people ask me what I teach. When I say, "I sub," they don't get it. I haven't figured out how to explain that list to people in few words. So, I tell them, "pretty much everything," when pressed. I think that's fairly accurate, don't you? 

So, now I have a bit of time off until it starts all over again. I wonder what next year will bring.

Previous years' stats:

• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010