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t had been ages but wow i didn t realize just how long it has actually been but what can i say i ve been busy both teaching and there are some adventures there i hope to relate before so much time passes again and taking care of my wife the short version she got really really sick back in 2020 right before covid the long version you can read on her blog starting right here but i m actually in a steady stable job that i ve had for nearly five years now and i m loving it i even got interviewed for it in a newspaper on the other side of the country which is the main reason i m posting thes hear because despite promises that i d get a physical copy of the paper it s never come so i wanted to put the link to the article somewhere where i could remember and find it easily and i suddenly remembered i had a teaching blog i m parking it here it s actually kind of funny how this interview happened i was heading off on an adventure last fall that coincided with some of the early days of the school year which you can read about in the blog i still actually maintain and my current bosses not only gave my blessing to go they hooked me up with the publicity department of our overarching national company my interview is the result posted by eric at 9 43 pm no comments labels update tuesday february 12 2013 hey leave it alone apparently someone in the philippines is trying to gain control of this blog well whoever you are i may not post here very often but it s still my blog and i plan to keep posting to it so back off if you want to blog about teaching go start your own blog if you want to change my settings to allow unmoderated comments so you can start spamming here why in the world are you trying that with a blog with so few updates and not a lot of readers sheesh posted by eric at 6 52 pm no comments labels blog admin friday january 04 2013 the latest update yup it s been a while again hasn t it i think it s fair to say that this blog is not a big priority so i hope my few regular readers can be forgiving but my is there a lot to tell you this time around so the new job started and man was it interesting like i said small classes nice kids but not always with their heads in the game if you know what i mean i thought i was doing well teaching math struggled but made do teaching science and couldn t teach the compass class because the school didn t have the contract yet and it wasn t set up i turned it into a study hall with a few self contained math lessons so that it wasn t too easy but since it was a second and in some cases third math class for some of the students i ramped it back from some of my initial plans i went huckleberry picking up on tribal lands that few whites ever get to see i was there for an assembly when a native artist added a mural in the lobby and i was in a circle dance at the tribal health fair and then they fired me it came out from left field so fast and so hard that my head is still ringing nearly two months later i d been having a bad week and i ll admit that there were a couple of incidents that did not do me a lot of good however rather than try to work with me and help me out they decided that i wasn t the right teacher for them and took advantage of my six month probationary period to let me go and to be honest now that i ve had a little time to reflect i think they were right the school needs a lot of help from an experienced teacher who can handle problem students and i doubt i could have succeeded in the end i m glad for the experience and i wish everyone there well but i just wish there could have been a better way to handle it the good news is that my local district was extremely happy to have me back as a substitute almost immediately i got jobs i ve worked just about every day at one of the middle schools in fact where the principal even took me aside one morning to find out what happened and that i was all right the kids were happy to see me too dang i like working in this district and it could happen some more not long after i got back to work there i found out that the high school had an opening for a math teacher for the rest of the year i sent my letter of interest to human resources and promptly heard nothing back so a couple of weeks later i decided to do something i d never done before i went to the source i e mailed a copy of my letter and resume to the principal vice principals and math coach at the high school a few days later i heard back from the principal who wants to talk to me next week today s the last day of winter break in the district and school starts again on monday i have no idea what all is involved whether or not i d actually be a good fit and if they really want me or they re just desperate for anybody i do plan to be very honest with him about my history and what i need to be successful but i really like what this district is doing with math reform and student support and i ve already had a taste of it subbing for one math teacher for two weeks last year plus i know a lot of the kids already i m cautiously optimistic but i m also realistic enough to know that it could blow up in my face again but i m still in the one ste at a time phase in that we need to have that conversation first i will of course let you know what happens but i can t guarantee it being in a timely manner posted by eric at 11 33 am no comments labels applying job hunt new job reflection wednesday august 22 2012 the first day the first day of my new job with my students was supposed to be today however one of the tribal elders passed away yesterday and so most tribal activities are on hold for the funeral and burial and this is a big deal in the tribe because from what i m hearing from the other teachers everyone is so interconnected it s basically one big family and if i do things right i will be welcomed into that family before very long the school was open for a few hours this morning however which was fine with me i had a few more things i wanted to take care of before the first classes and since this would be my only chance before classes start on friday then i figured i d better go in and take care of things so i m all ready for the first day and have a head start on next week as well i also brought home my teacher editions so i can get an even further jump on next week s plans while i have the day off there will be some new things to get used to i m not working for a school district but it s not a private school either i am actually an employee of the tribe and therefore i have to follow all tribal government rules this means filling out a time sheet daily no from what i gather i don t get a set salary like i used to get teaching in a public school instead i basically get paid for the days i work however that includes holidays and paid administrative days such as today and tomorrow no i don t know about summer yet good grief stop asking so many questions i haven t even met my students yet in other words it s a lot more like working in the corporate world but no i don t think i get paid overtime if i work more than eight hours a day nor for anything i do at home i also have to pass drug tests in fact it s a good thing i went in today because i had my first one today i also don t have to answer to the state education office since i m not technically working in a state school instead i will get to deal with the bureau of indian education but i sure hope i can keep my state certification up anyway if nothing else that will keep me current i also want to finally finish my master s degree and from what i ve been hearing i may get a lot of support for that yes the tribe has funds to help out its teachers and support them heck they already paid for my fingerprints to get this job no district has ever done that for me before i have six classes spread out over seven periods and i think i ll have to actually teach them for a little bit before i can tell you exactly what i m teaching but i know i have middle school eighth grade pre algebra middle school eighth grade life science high school earth science high school applied math compass math individually paced on computers 21st century math a program i ll be teaching with the other math teacher where students will apply what they ve been learning to a project i also know that my classes will be small so far i ve heard that only four eighth graders have enrolled but they expect that to go up once school starts i have seating for fourteen in my room but it s possible that i ll need more one reason they hired me is because of some large classes last year of over twenty if only classes were that small in the public schools to be honest i m really nervous i m worried that i ll blow it like i have in my last two contracted jobs by letting students get out of control and letting my emotions get in the way of good teaching and good management on the other hand i ve had two years now to reflect on what went wrong in my last job and figure out what i need to do differently and i think i have a much better handle on things despite the nerves i also feel a lot more confident that i m going into this with my eyes wide open despite the very different situation and that i will get the support i need to succeed i also have a better idea of what to look out for before they become bigger problems and that i need to do something on a final note another district contacted me and asked about lining up an interview and for the first time i got to turn them down because i already had a job it would be in one of the biggest high schools in this part of the state and would mean a lot longer commute so to be honest i think i m glad where i am already posted by eric at 1 45 pm no comments labels new job tuesday august 14 2012 the hunt is over now the real work begins i must have done or said something right this time around because i got a job this was the second job i interviewed for last week and it is certainly going to be different if my last contracted job was a shock because if its small size this one will be a complete and total headspin because it only has about a hundred students it s not exactly a public school and there may be some cultural shift there too okay i ll come out and tell you that it s a tribal school yes all of my students will be native american i m mostly going to teach math but i know i ll get at least one section of science probably biology too everyone is also telling me that i ll have to wear lots of hats so we ll see what other duties i ll have but since two of the four sports offered by the school are cross country and track which were the two i did in high school i think i can help out there some the school gets a lot of funding from both the tribe and the federal government so it s well wired another part of the job i think i ll like i ll even get my own ipad something this school does that ought to be interesting is that it segregates the classes a lot of them are either all boys or all girls i ve heard about the studies done in such situations and how successful they ve been so i m eager to see it in practice two things worry me one is that school starts next week i m already a little behind in getting things set up and i still have lots of paperwork and stuff to deal with i already have an appointment to get my fingerprints taken tomorrow afternoon just as a for instance i think it s safe to say that my summer is over and i must now devote myself to getting ready to hit the ground running the other worry is that in the past whenever i ve gotten a contract my attitude has pretty much been well i ve got the job now i can relax why yes i can hear the rest of you giggling out there now that you ask hey you don t have to hit me over the head with a clue by four too many times before i figure things out so yes this year i m going in with the attitude of okay now i ve got the job what do i have to do to keep it i think that is going to help me a lot more fortunately i have experience i have colleagues and i m going in with my eyes wide open so i hope it goes well and i can hang onto this job for a while until one opens up in my local district yes i do still want to teach here in town partly because it s where i live now and after subbing here for two years i ve become impressed with how things work i d like to be a part of that but not as a substitute if i can help it one more thing that excites me about this job is that they have smartboards in fact they re having smartboard training tomorrow morning and i m going to go in and find out what they re all about and work with my new colleagues hey i have to start building up clock hours for my certificate renewal and get the lay of the land right i can t guarantee that i ll blog terribly often during the school year but i ll do what i can to at least keep everyone up to date posted by eric at 4 37 pm 1 comment labels new job new year thursday august 09 2012 when it rains it pours i still have a few more hours to go before my interview and i already have another one lined up tomorrow morning also an inside source tells me that the administrators in the district i m currently subbing in have gotten back to work just this week and will be making hiring decisions soon so possibly there will be more coming soon hey after getting no interviews last year this is a big improvement now let s just see if i can actually succeed in one this year posted by eric at 1 20 pm no comments labels job hunt wednesday august 08 2012 wish me luck job interview tomorrow it s math at the high school two towns down the road so now i have to iron a shirt and figure out what i can about the school in the next twenty four hours posted by eric at 1 49 pm no comments labels job hunt friday june 15 2012 and now the waiting i had the interview this morning and i know i didn t hit it out of the park however i don t think i totally struck out either so we ll just have to wait and see it s a 8 and quite a ways out of town so at this time last year i might have taken a pass on it purely for economical reasons but now that laura s working i can afford it but wait as they say in certain tv ads there s more i also got an e mail today from one of the local elementary schools the only one out in the boondocks that i don t sub in because i can t walk to it asking if i d be interested in interviewing for an ell specialist position i m not sure exactly what that would entail but the ell part makes me suspect that i ll have to brush up on my rudimentary spanish this summer i responded that i d at least be interested in finding out more and i d be happy to come in and interview so that s now two more interviews than i had last year and i have barely begun to fill out applications i hope this bodes well posted by eric at 3 52 pm 1 comment labels job hunt thursday june 14 2012 okay wow i m already ahead on my count from last year i have an interview tomorrow for a part time but more than half time middle school math job in a nearby district si...