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Very nice photo! Is it one you found? or one you took? As to your schedule question, here's mine.
I teach middle school in Riverside. Ours is the smallest middle school (about 750 students, 7 & 8). I start at 8am and finish (technically) at 3:30. I have been staying late at least one or two nights a week (last night I was working in my room until 8:15p!) I teach 2 remedial reading classes, we use the Language! program. These students are reading between 2nd and 6th grade levels. Needless to say it is a challenge. Each class is 2 consecutive periods (50 min. each). These students have refined the art of diverting the teacher/disrupting the class, so they don't have to work. Most of them are failing their other classes. My last class period is an 8th grade GATE class. Most of these kids are reading at a 10th grade or higher level. No wonder I sometimes feel like a schizophrenic! I spend a lot of time lesson planning. I have a Promethean board and ActivStudio software, including ActivVotes. We also have a 40 laptop mobile lab. We are expected to integrate technology in our lessons, and as I think everyone knows, that takes major time (in addition to grading papers). As for the rest of my schedule, I have 658. After having spent a month this summer at the Inland Area Writing Project's Summer Institute, I try to spend at least half an hour writing every day (not including work/classwork!). I have several poems and a couple of short stories I'm working on...Later Donna