Time Management
I have decided that I totally stink at time management. I just never have enough time to get everything done that needs to be done, and I’m approaching things in such a haphazard fashion that nothing is ever really finished.
It’s really bad at school.
I knew I’d left my desk in something of a mess, but had no idea that it resembled a giant Jenga game! When I saw it this morning I could have wept. I had to dig through piles of books and papers just to find a writing surface. I needed to have a couple hours to sort through the paperwork and get folders organized, lessons planned, and letters to parents written.
No such luxury in my life, though.
I got there at 7.30, and thought I’d have an hour to get the copying done, send out a couple notices of parent meetings, and make sure that I had things together for the day (more or less). No such luck. The Village Idiot showed up with my new teaching assistant, so what little time I had was spent trying to get her acclimated.
She seems nice. She’s probably in my age range and has some teaching experience. This is a boon. It’s so much easier dealing with a person who has a basic understanding of how schools operate. I gave her a schedule and a brief run down of who the kids were that she’d be working with, and what to expect from them.
It’s hard to put in a nutshell the complicated learning profiles that these kids have, but I gave it the old college try. I couldn’t be thorough and give her a lot of time, as I had a teacher who was expecting me to be there to teach reading first period and I couldn’t just blow him off.
I figure things went o.k. for her, though, as she said she’d had a good day and would be back tomorrow (phew!)
I’ve given myself a much more demanding schedule than the other special ed teacher I work with has. She has the ENTIRE afternoon free, EVERY DAY!!! I can’t figure out how she managed to do that. I don’t have any time until the very last period of the day.
And what really gets to me is that she sits at her desk moaning and groaning over everything that needs to get done, but SHE manages to get it all done at school. She takes NOTHING home and leaves at 3 on the dot. I have a bag that weighs a ton and is chuck full of paperwork. I might not set through all of it, but I’ll make a dent.
It’s that time management beast rearing its ugly head again.
I brought home several reports to read tonight, but I have no idea when I’ll get to them. I kind of resent having to read them on my own time. I have lots of other things that I need to do.
It’s awful to feel overwhelmed this early in the year. It’s even worse to feel as if I’ve never been away. If I weren’t working with some different teachers and different kids I’d swear that there had never been a summer.
This was my horoscope for the day:
ARIES
"You may not be sure how the idea comes to you but in a flash of insight you could well come up with a completely new solution to a tricky problem that has been bugging you
on the work front, and although you may have to persevere in bringing colleagues round to your way of seeing things and introducing a new way of working, it will prove in your interests to get them behind you."
I’ve been waiting for the flash of insight all day. There hasn’t been even so much as a flicker let alone a flash.
I’m also wondering which thing that’s bugging me will be solved. The list is a bit lengthy.
I’d better go tackle that bag of stuff I brought home. I’d rather play on the computer, if truth be told.
But I’ll be good.
Maybe.
For a while.
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