Thursday, January 28, 2010

All good



Cardigan: Martin and Osa
Tank: Old Navy
Pants: RW & co.
Shoes: Naturalizer

I had a much better day than yesterday. The work drama has been solved. Here's what happened. I teach three sections of grade 9 English, even though I do not have an English major. I always have one section of social studies (my major was history). Our school has a severe shortage of English teachers so yesterday I was told that my social studies 10 class was going to be replaced with an English 10 class.

This struck fear into my stomach. I literally thought I was going to be sick. I would be taking over a course in the middle after the students have already had two other teachers this year. I would be picking up next Wednesday in the middle of a novel I have not read and then moving into Julius Caesar, poetry, and Of Mice and Men. I felt very under qualified for this and worried that I would be setting these kids up for failure next year. I can fake it through grade 9 English but grade 10 is a big step up.

Luckily, a fellow teacher volunteered to help me out today. She is also a grade 9 English teacher and is an actual English major. She has also taught grade 10 English before. She offered to switch her grade 9 English with my grade 10. Thank goodness! So I had a much better day today. No wine will be needed tonight!