Claire and I had our evaluations yesterday. A lot different than last year when we planned and prepared for days before hand. Johnson, our principal, came into our classrooms for something like 10-20 minutes. Only good things to report. We were supposed to be one of the last teachers to go since he was going to start from the early grades first, but he postponed them all for different reasons. Jill, the grade 6 teacher told him that he was doing hers, even if he was only in there for 10 minutes. Claire took the same approach for ours to get them over with.
It is has been frustrating of late in the school dealing with a couple issues. One that is bothering us involves duty coverage. Each teacher, with a partner, has a day that they must watch the students on recess and lunch. Teachers are forgetting about their duties or not coming in. Yesterday at lunch though, none of the primary end teachers came back to school in time for their duties. Jon, Jill, Claire and I were sitting in the staff room eating our lunches when two girls came to tell us that, "Jonah is bleeding." The four of us didn't know who Jonah was so we asked them. The on girl from grade three adamantly replied that he was, "Jonah." This went on for about thirty seconds, when finally I said, "Look, the only Jonah I know, was in a whale."
Our week is almost over, as is everyone else. We are heading out on Sunday afternoon to Winnipeg for a week-long conference. Needless to say this break comes at the right time.
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