I can't believe it's August already! But, with August comes substitute inservice and also the return to my blog!
At the inservice this year we learned that all the teachers who got laid off and who choose to work as substitutes will get preferential treatment. What this means for me is that I'll depend on requests more than ever! So I plan on sending out especially pleading emails in a few weeks to pretty much every teacher I ever met last year! I'm not too worried since most of my jobs last year were requests anyways, and I THINK those teachers are pretty loyal to me - I hope!
Anyway, back to the inservice - it was better this year! They finally(!) took note of our comments I guess and redid the child abuse and risk management presentations and they were so much better! They focused more on the relevant info for subs and made their slides readable and it was quite a relief! They were also shorter and we got out an hour early! Double yay!
Again, there were some funny moments and odd statements and an onslaught of needless questions from other subs who apparently didn't want to use their reasoning skills. Here's my favorite quote from our risk management presenter when discussing the perils of using rugs to cover cords on the floor: "Rugs are not environmentally effective." I do not think those words mean what you think they mean! (10 points* for the first person to recognize my poor attempt at a movie reference!)
*Points have no actual value.
