SCENARIO: Homeroom, Monday morning, no lesson planned for third period. You have the first two periods free. Scratch that, the assistant principle tells you he needs you to cover a freshman history class first period. Goodbye free period. Opps, nobody told you about the field trip today, which seven of your honors biology students will be on. Half way through second period: Opps, the buses went to the wrong school. Field trip is cancelled. You will have all your students in class.
How I would have handled this in the fall: Well, I obviously would not have gone out over the weekend and would have prepared an optimal and fantastically engaging lesson for third period on Monday. Freaked out about having to cover a bratty, mean freshman history class. Complained to another first year teacher about the field trip SNAFU.
What I did today: Check my gmail account. Wander over to the freshman history class, sit down and write up warning notices. Occasionally tell kids to pipe down, and cut out the F-bombs and stop calling kids the N-word or gay. Feel bad for the kids who didn’t get to go on the field trip. (Note I still haven’t planned a lesson yet). Give the honors bio kids an admit slip quiz, decide what I am going to do for class during those 5 minutes.
Moral: Kids can smell fear, carry lots of deodorant.
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