5:30 AM - finish documents to be printed for the day. Print documents. Pack for school.
6:00 AM - Leave house in Batesville. Drive to McDonalds. Order one Egg McMuffin with no meat, one medium mocha with skim milk. 1/3 days the machine will be broken and I have to get a frappe or regular coffee.
6:35 AM - Arrive at school. Sign in.
6:40 AM - Go to the room next door and borrow the remote to turn on my promethean board. Tidy up classroom. Make any last minute adjustments to my slides. Download slides onto promethean computer and bring up the DO NOW so students can see it.
6:50 AM - Drag chair outside my room. Take my post outside my room, usually with something to work on.
7:10 AM - "S" arrives.
7: 30 AM - rest of the students begin to trickle in from breakfast.
7:40 AM - first period begins. "Do Now is UP. There should be no talking." I take attendance from the back of the room while firing off warnings and consequences.
7:45 AM - we've gone over the do now, and I've checked to see if they did it or not. I give a short intro to the day's topic, and put up the notes. We do some guided practice and then lots of independent practice. Q asks to go to the bathroom. I say no.
8: 36 AM - second period begins. This is my honors class, so I don't give out warnings and consequences usually. I just stop talking and give the teacher look to anyone whispering. Similar format to first period.
9:32 AM - Intervention period begins. This is the biggest waste of time. They don't get a grade for it, so no one really tries. The polite students pretend to at least. I get a volunteer to read from the screen and then we answer multiple choice questions about it. If I'm lucky, then there's an assembly during this time.
10:12 AM - Planning Period. I either go to a meeting, or sit there for 10 minutes enjoying the silence. Then I check email, enter grades, have a snack etc.
11:08 AM - Fourth Period begins. Students do the DO NOW, and when everyone's finished, I line them up outside my door. When they are quiet and facing forward, they walk to the end of the hall and stop there. I give them the go-ahead to go around the corner and walk to the entrance to the cafeteria. When I give them the go ahead, they enter and join the rest of the line. This is when I have to be most alert for people wandering out of line, messing with each other etc. I sit down at the teacher table but keep an eye on my class.
11: 45 AM- We leave the cafeteria in a similar manner to the way we came. Periods 4 - 7 follow the same structure.
3:30 PM - Afternoon announcements. Walkers and car riders are dismissed soon after.
3:40ish PM - bus riders are dismissed. Teachers walk out of the building to make sure no students stay behind in the building.
3:45 PM - I leave the school. I call someone, most often my mom and chat as I drive back to Batesville.
4:00 PM - I arrive in Batesville. If it is Monday or Wednesday, I pick up a medium cheese hand-tossed pizza at Dominos. If it is Tuesday, it's Subway. If it is Thursday, I meet the other MTC teachers at Cafe Ole for dinner.
5 - 6 PM Begin lesson planning for the next day.
6ish PM go for run.
7 PM Shower. Finish lesson planning.
7:30 PM - get ready for bed. Read or talk on the phone and try to relax.
8:00 PM - lights out.
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