Day Off!!!!!



I'm so excited because I have the day off today and it's not a personal or sick day I've taken. We had parent teacher conferences last night so I worked from 7am until 8:15pm and so the day off today is a reward for working so long yesterday. Usually we get Fridays as our reward day but they scheduled professional development for tomorrow. I can't complain though, Thursdays seem like a more exciting day off because it's not an ordinary day to have off during the week.



I'm going to move on to things that are going on at work. Right now I'm a fourth grade intervention teacher at a charter school. Basically I go into three fourth grade classrooms and work with the bottom 30% of the kids in all subjects, but mainly math and reading. My performance is based mostly on a computer test that the kids taken periodically in math and reading. I also co teach an intervention reading program in the mornings. So I'm in the same classroom with the low reading kids every morning from 8:05-9:30 and then after that I bounce around to the classrooms to work with the kids in all the other subjects.



This whole year my co teacher and I have been talked to about our kids not performing as well as they should be performing. Which essentially equates to "the kids are not doing well on the reading computer test." Yeah they take some other tests into consideration too but that's the main one. My co teacher and I have really been pounding that test into the kids, closely monitoring them while they are taking the test, and having the kids set goals and get excited about their levels. All and all it seems to be working and we are starting to see the growth that administration wants to see. Just a little background information.



So over the past month I've heard from two people who have pretty important jobs, one being my boss and the other being the boss of my principal that they are moving me into the classroom next year to be a classroom teacher. I haven't been actually "asked" if I would but since I've heard this from two pretty important people I'm guessing that it's pretty for sure for next year. The thing that I don't get is that I know of two other teachers that have been pulled down to my principal's office and asked if they would either go from being an intervention teacher to being a classroom teacher or move from one grade to another. Just yesterday the teacher that I really get along with on my fourth grade team, we click and we are friends, got asked if she would mind moving to kindergarten. Which leads to my concern of why they aren't asking me if I would mind changing positions next year and they are asking others. It seems like it's already decided and that makes me a little nervous.



Secondly, I wasn't crazy about moving back to the classroom when I heard that they had that in the plans but I was starting to realize that there were things that I missed about being a classroom teacher. The shock was starting to rub off and I was becoming more comfortable with changing positions, until yesterday. I was starting to be okay with the idea of being a fourth grade teacher, I just figured they would put me in fourth grade because that's where I am right now, because I'd be with my teacher friend that I'm with this year, the one that I click with and am friends with. However, now she may be moving to Kindergarten, and they mentioned to her that they are changing up the fourth grade team.



Thirdly, the fourth grade team has this reputation of being the most hard core and overachieving in the school and I'm surprised that they would mess with something that wasn't "broken." Now though that I found out that the whole team might be changed I'm not so okay with moving into the classroom, especially into fourth grade. I was okay with it because I knew that my friend would help me and answer any questions that I may have, but now it could be all new people.

I just hope that I find out soon what the plans are for next year! I am a planner and I hate not knowing what I'll be doing next year.