Back to School

First impressions of the new job:

1. Will interfere with blogging.

2. Teachers can be an odd bunch. Example: "There's a human skull in my classroom. That's so awesome." (He is an anthropology teacher, but still.)

3. I am one of 4 (or 5?) new Social Studies teachers. This is both good and bad. Good because everyone is very nice and helpful but bad because things seem to be a bit chaotic. Example: I say, "so where do we need to be at the end of the semester, just to the end of Ancient Greece?" One of the veterans says, "well, not necessarily. I mean, that's how we did it last year but this is all negotiable. We sort of have this curriculum but we don't really follow it." New guy 1 says (as I am thinking) "so the curriculum online is not really what we should use?" Veteran 2 says, "well you could..."

4. I was part of a real life "breakfast club" today. We were working on curriculum and there was the perky cheerleader, the jaded cynic, the jock, the nerd, the leader and me. What does that make me?

5. I'm surprisingly calm despite the fact that I'm still unclear as to what exactly I am supposed to be teaching and when, they don't use textbooks, I still don't have keys to my classroom and the kids come next week.

6. I'm thinking I should find out who Joel Barlow is seeing as I am teaching at a school named after him.

7. I do think I will like it there.

Go Falcons!