Well, here goes. This is my first blog attempt and I guess that I will just start off with how things are going. This is not my first year teaching, but it is my first year as a graphics instructor. I did a year as a para-pro, then a year at the middle school teaching special ed. social studies, then a year at the high school teaching drafting and now I am in graphic communications. I feel as though I have finally found my subject matter. So it is not the teaching aspect that I feel uncomfortable with, but rather the extra things that go along with being a graphics instructor.
The odd jobs and favors that are asked as if I don't actually have to teach a class also. I started the year in the hole because I had so many favors to get done that I had little to no time to get my class in order. I finally feel as though I am getting to the point that I am on track. However, the jobs are still coming in but I feel as though I have them under control now. When you add my coaching and NTI class I stay very busy. Did I mention my wife and two daughters? Any way I like being busy and I think that now things will start to settle down. Well, I think I'm done venting for now. Thanks for listening.
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ReplyDeleteAt my school our graphic art teacher have the same problem she is always doing project for others, and trying to teach. I told her that she should charge for some of the things that do. We are advisors for SkillSUSA and we could used the money for our club. It's hard for us to go on field trips. The county charges .75 cent a mile and we pay for the bus driver. It she would only charge we could make it, she don't. T do you charge for project? I think if I was in Graphic art I would make some people a little upset.
The automotive shop has the same issues. Someone always needs a car repair or is broken down in front of the school. The football field needs to be cut for a game tonight and the lawnmower is broken. I started sorting out people that used me and the school's facilites. When I started charging for repairs then the freebees went away. I don't charge as much as a repair shop would but still make enough for field trips.
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