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Post by monklady123 on Oct 5, 2023 19:40:13 GMT
Dear Teachers: Omg. This is me today:   <----- adult beverage. The teacher I was subbing for today leaves me her iPad to use to connect to her SmartBoard. All other teachers either leave me their laptop or nothing. Honestly, I would rather sub all day with NO access to the SmartBoard (i.e., the "nothing" teachers) than deal with technology that doesn't work. Or technology that doesn't work how the teacher thinks it will. Why does a regular teacher think that these instructions will make sense to a sub?: "Open Google Classroom on the Canvas tab and click on My Access and then the phonics tab will appear and here is the password..." Or something like that.  My day went like this: 1. Morning Meeting, no problem, the slides on the iPad were where they were supposed to be. 2. Phonics -- nope. Even the other two 3rd grade teachers couldn't get it to work with the log-in information that my teacher had left me. That's how I know it wasn't just me, because those two are experts at all this stuff by now. So I had the morning meeting go a little longer (this is a chatty bunch so it was fine), then gave them free reading time. 3. Math, the slides she left were not what was in the worksheet she left, which she left a note on that said "after the group work with the slides, they should do this for reinforcement"... which says to me that the two topics should have been the same. 4. Mindful minute meditation after lunch -- nope. I could only find one link even after poking around for awhile, and it was just a picture of water with no sound. So I gave up on that quickly and just pulled up something soothing from my Spotify. 5. Language Arts, no problem. whew! 6. Science, nope. The link she left for the kids to log in to whatever-it-was didn't work for anyone. Even the kids who can always get these things to work and who help everyone else couldn't do it. So I said forget it and told them they could watch Brain Pop science videos. Omg. I think I'll start a new post about the use of iPads in our schools, since I'd love to hear opinions from all you teachers. Meanwhile.... <----- another adult beverage.   |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 5, 2023 19:51:07 GMT
Oh!! Sorry!
🍺<--- have another on me!!
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Post by Bobomommy on Oct 5, 2023 19:54:03 GMT
I always leave paper and pencil work for subs. I might leave something the students can do one their own on their chromebooks, but nothing for the teacher to pull up on the board.
That had to be so frustrating for you!
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Post by stargazer on Oct 5, 2023 20:14:45 GMT
I had a sub in for me this morning who took the time to thank me for the detailed plans and info I left along with the correct resources which I think is what you get from someone who was herself the cover teacher on staff for a year.
All that to say, I get you
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Post by Merge on Oct 5, 2023 20:21:30 GMT
So sorry.
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Post by kate on Oct 5, 2023 21:09:44 GMT
That's awful! I wonder if the teacher was sick when she wrote up the plans. You are brilliant for being able to pivot!
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Post by huskergal on Oct 5, 2023 21:28:40 GMT
I teach computer science so I have to use the technology. If I have a sub, I make sure the students have independent work.
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 5, 2023 21:33:45 GMT
That's awful! I wonder if the teacher was sick when she wrote up the plans. You are brilliant for being able to pivot! No! I might give her a pass if she'd gotten sick at the last minute. But this job was scheduled back in JULY... it's one of four days when she's doing some sort of training. So there is no excuse! |
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Post by elaine on Oct 5, 2023 22:44:46 GMT
(((Hugs)))
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Post by seaexplore on Oct 5, 2023 23:20:43 GMT
I got an email on the way to my classroom today that we had no internet (for the 2nd time in 2 weeks) and that they were not sure when it would come back.
Well, um, ALL my curriculum is digital. Chemistry book is digital/soft back consumable for HIGH SCHOOL but we do it together because it’s “too hard” for them and I really need them to pass, activity online, printed critical thinking activity that was printed last week thankfully because we can’t print if we have no internet. All my keys are digital so I have to hunt them down. Math problem sets are online- work it, video assistance, retry a different problem.
Thankfully we have hot spots and since my school has 34 TOTAL students, we were able to put 3 hotspots in each room and one in the office so we could try and get stuff done. So much complaining from the kids about the speed and how it’s so hard to get work done. Nope, I was on the hotspot too and my computer was faster than it is on our Wi-Fi!
Anyway- we all survived and work got completed.
When I have a sub there is no tech for the sub. Kids do work online or paper/pencil. I don’t ask my subs to teach anything. They just have to babysit. If they want to take them out and play a sport that is fine too but assigned work gets done first.
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 6, 2023 0:16:38 GMT
I got an email on the way to my classroom today that we had no internet (for the 2nd time in 2 weeks) and that they were not sure when it would come back. Well, um, ALL my curriculum is digital. Chemistry book is digital/soft back consumable for HIGH SCHOOL but we do it together because it’s “too hard” for them and I really need them to pass, activity online, printed critical thinking activity that was printed last week thankfully because we can’t print if we have no internet. All my keys are digital so I have to hunt them down. Math problem sets are online- work it, video assistance, retry a different problem. Thankfully we have hot spots and since my school has 34 TOTAL students, we were able to put 3 hotspots in each room and one in the office so we could try and get stuff done. So much complaining from the kids about the speed and how it’s so hard to get work done. Nope, I was on the hotspot too and my computer was faster than it is on our Wi-Fi! Anyway- we all survived and work got completed. When I have a sub there is no tech for the sub. Kids do work online or paper/pencil. I don’t ask my subs to teach anything. They just have to babysit. If they want to take them out and play a sport that is fine too but assigned work gets done first. I only sub in elementary school so I do teach (since the teachers all know me, because this is the only school I go to). And I don't mind technology when it works as the teacher intends it to. In other words, if there's some sort of internet outage we'll manage, and I know everyone is in the same boat anyway. And some teachers don't leave me any access to the SmartBoard and that's fine too... I'll read the language arts lesson/book to them (which I like doing anyway), and there are worksheets to do, and they can do the Lexia app (some sort of language arts thing that's required by my county) and even -- horrors! -- read an actual book when they finish their work. But what annoys the heck out of me like today is when the teacher leaves only the slide deck and supposedly has links in there, and there are no paper copies, and then her slides don't work. I'd just rather have nothing at all. |
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