This year I am teaching English and Reading at the Cabell County Alternative Learning Center, which is where you go in Cabell County when you are expelled from your home school. It’s my first honest-to-God contract and benefits teaching gig, and I must admit that the prospect of going to the eye doctor is quite exciting.
I teach every grade between 6 and 12, but (and this is the part where you get jealous) I currently only have 30 students. I have my seventh graders twice during the day–once for Language Arts and once for reading. Right now, there are a whopping two of them. This is amazing. We write, we read, we talk. It’s so much fun getting to give them 100% of my attention for two entire periods.
I know it won’t last. The other teacher’s say enrollment swells until our classes our around normal size by November, but for right now, these first few weeks, those boys are going to write the most kick ass memoirs possible. Because there’s no escape from Mr. Nolte when there are only three of us in the room.
August 31, 2008 at 4:45 pm |
I would love to be in your class and work on a memoir! I am taking a class on Social Memory and Oral History, however, and that seems pretty exciting to me!
September 1, 2008 at 10:45 am |
It is exciting to have benefits! I am glad it is going well. Hey maybe most of the children at Cabell will be well behaved and your classes will stay small. Memoirs are fun you learn sooo much about them.
September 1, 2008 at 9:39 pm |
WOW! Alternative school! But I guess with just 30 students throughout the day, it can’t be too bad. Enjoy it! Not everybody can teach in that environment (me included). I’m sure you’ll do a great job with the students.