Laws of Gravity

Monday. Tenth grade English. Co-taught.  The kiddos had some questions to answer from their reading of "The Masque of the Red Death...

Tuesday. Fourth period integrated math two (read: geometry/sophomore math).  I was in for Ms. L all week, and I was expecting to find Mr. J....

Wednesday. I was expecting to cover eighth grade math only to discover once I got there that the assignment had been cancelled. Sigh. But, b...

I went to bed last Sunday night figuring I wasn't working Monday. I hadn't managed to pick up an assignment. (I had just missed a c...

Friday had been a minimum day (end of the first quarter). Ms. S and I checked out at the same time, and we were outside, chatting. (Ms. S is...

Friday. Sixth period. I got an email from the co-teacher, Ms. K.  The eleventh grade English classes are all co-taught. (This means that the...

I've been doing a lot of co-teaching lately. That is, I've been covering in classes where there are two teachers, either covering th...

It was one of those weeks... Well, yeah, I do mean that, but really what I'm talking about is work--the substitute teaching of it all. A...

A sub credential only allows me to cover one class for up to thirty days. This was extended to sixty days the last couple of years , because...

It was the penultimate day of school, and I had caught a gig covering a special ed co-teacher. Her sixth period class was eighth grade Engli...

The room I was in last week was between two co-taught math classes. I have covered both classes in the past, and I am familiar with the teac...

It was the second week of my new long-term assignment, and I spent much of it getting their grades caught up. For much of the month of Febru...

Monday. I arrived at the school and checked in. At the same time, a sub I had not met before arrived. (We were in the parking lot at the sam...

The special ed social studies class I've been covering has an instructional assistant, Ms. P. She does all the grading, and she assists ...

Friday. Eighth grade math. Cotaught.  I walked in expecting to play support to the regular general ed teacher, but it turned out she was out...

The official first full week of school was incredibly boring for me. I only got one job, for Friday. (It was for the history class I had cov...

Last Thursday was the first day of school. I only got one gig for Friday.  But, it was at the continuation high school, so instead of it bei...

Thursday. All the English teachers were out, so I got to see a bunch of other subs I hadn't seen in a while. (Well, not all  the English...

For period four, the lesson plan read: "I have a student teacher. He will take care of everything."  Yeah, I know. I've known ...

Monday. It was the day after Mother's Day. Ms. R, the co-teacher, had decided to take a personal day off. (She went to visit her grown c...