For the past 12 weeks I have been Mrs.Laban, anatomy, fitness specialist and sports medicine teacher. Today was my last day with that oh so long title. During the spring when Ii was coaching track a friend cane up and told me she was expecting her second child and would be needing a long term sub at the beginning of the year. She asked if I would be interested. At the time I had several job applications in with different districts and really thought I was going to be offered a job at the middle school I had been working at for the last 5 months. Well..... Nothing came out like I thought it would. I had interviews but schools opted to hire people with more experience rather than a girl,who had been subbing for a year and who before moving to Washington was teaching part time at an elementary school in a subject totally unrelated to the job she was interviewing for or endorsed in. Who would have thunk! Thinking all hope was lost I was content on just subbing in the district again and hope that someone needed a long term at some point.
Thankfully while Kasala was in Samoa my friend called again to see if I had found a job and offering her 12 week maternity leave to me again. The principal had gone behind her back and found someone she was not comfortable with to take her spot and she was not having it. After a very expensive phone call to Kasala I decided to take the job. And I am so glad that I did. These past 12 weeks have been amazing. Aside from the fact that one student started a petition around the school saying that I needed to be removed from teaching because I was horrible, all I did was yell and I had no control over the students... it was amazing. I learned so much about myself as a teacher. The things I didn't do so well, the things that I did do well, what I needed to work on and what it was like teaching high school students. I hadn't had a high school class since student teaching at Stadium!
Not only did I learn a lot about myself but I learned so much about how our bodies work, how to train our bodies and then how to tape up our bodies when their broken/hurt! The knowledge I gained was the best part of working. I was excited to go into work work most of the days and I was excited to see a majority of the students! The only thing I regret doing is not going down to eat lunch more often with the other teacher. When I did go eat with them it was fun to hear their take on things. It's definitely a different side than what I saw when I was a student at FP but everything is so different there now anyways. Change was bound to happen but some of the changes just make no sense.
Anyways... I miss teaching full time. I miss having a classroom to go to every morning and having copies to make and papers to grade. I miss having students come in and talk to me just to tell me how their day was going and to see how I was doing. I miss it. But I knew it was going to come to an end and I know that I'm not qualified to teach those kids the things they need to be successful this year so I guess it was fun while it lasted!!
Until my next long term... there will be a new bunch of kids to fall in love with and think of as my own.... In May 2013 at the middle school :)
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