Re: new job/first week

[Deborah Chaney <chaney@TENET.EDU>]

You are WONDERUL!! I'd recommend you for a position in a minute. Want to
move to Texas??!!

On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Patricia Lee Wassink wrote:

> Almost all of our elementary teachers spend at least two days preparing
> their rooms before the beginning of contract time.  I come in
> periodically during the summer to sort and discard mail.
>
> We have two days of "in-service" before the students arrive.  About half
> of that time is scheduled meetings.  During the remainder of the time I
> complete my schedule for classes, checkout computers (helps a lot to give
> the teachers the same computer back--they can just come and pick it up),
> cope with miscellaneous requests and enter student into the computer
> system.  I have about 65-75 students per grade (k-6), and that chore
> doesn't take more than 10 or 15 minutes per grade level--excluding the
> printing--but that is more or less automatic.
>
> I meet with classes the first afternoon that students arrive, and see the
> remainder of them during the rest of the first week.  If for some reason
> I get behind on entering student barcodes, I simply do the ones for the
> first classes and do the others in the short intervals between classes.
> I think this is all a matter of PRIORITIES--my top priority is getting
> some books into the hands of the kids.
>
> I do tell the teachers that their students can come ONLY during scheduled
> times the first two weeks. That means that anytime a class is not
> scheduled is MY time.
>
> We have completed two weeks of school.  My supplies are not all put away,
> I have two orders of new books in the backroom, invoices to check,
> computers to reassemble after summer repair and a host of things--too
> many to list.  I have no paid help and only a handful of student
> volunteers. My desk is piled high and so is the area around it.  BUT the
> kids have had contact with me and checked out lots of books--total
> circulation is already over 2000.  THAT is my top priority.
>
> Pat Wassink
> Colfax Elementary School
> 601 University Ave.
> Colfax, WI 54730
> wassinpl@uwec.edu
>
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Lyn Anderson wrote:
>
> > I was here several times during the weeks BEFORE any teachers or students
> > arrived.  My feeling is that I am here for the students not myself.  I
> > will do whatever it takes to get things ready for the students the day
> > they come back.
> >
> > Lyn Anderson
> > Lincoln Middle School
> > Indianapolis, IN
> >
>