Well, the end of the Semester is near. In fact, it is tomorrow! Grades are due Friday, and what with all the computer problems, our Superintendent has decided NOT to extend the deadline. Not even one day to Monday. Of course, over 1/3 of our staff is new and doesn't really know how to run the grading program, but that doesn't deter our Sup.
Anyway, it looks like at least 1 student is transferring out of Chemistry at the end of the semester. It is probably for the best, but the student was a very pleasant student. He's transferring out so that he can have a study hall (which he desperately needs.) Now I wish that 2 or 3 others would transfer out. As for study hall, 1 student has transferred in, and 1 is trying to get out, but probably won't. However, I'm all for his transferring because he does nothing but disrupt the class and prevent other students from trying to complete their homework. Just before I started typing this post, 1 student asked if they could transfer into Advanced Biology. Not a problem by my accounts.
Today has been extremely busy. I've been very hands-on with most of the classes today, making sure they have their work turned in, understand what they are doing, and just generally making sure things are ok. Very productive, but very tiring. Truly, I wish that everyday could be like today. Well, not exactly like today. I had lunch duty (all week actually). So like today, but without the lunch duty.
Down side of being more hands-on is that I didn't get nearly the amount of grading done that I needed to. I still have 2 or 3 assignments to correct from the last 3 days, plus about a 1 1/2 weeks worth of paperwork that piled up before the Christmas break. Hopefully I can get most of this done during school before Friday. It is my hope to compute semester grades on Friday and get them to the Office.
On another note, the lab supplies that I ordered for my biology class around Thanksgiving finally arrived. Apparently our new Clerk "lost" my requisition so things didn't get ordered in time. Yup, stuff I needed for the Bacteria unit. Too bad we are now studying Sponges and Jellyfish. Well, I promised the students we would do the lab. And guess what, after Sponges and Jellyfish, I'm going back and we WILL do the bacteria lab.
I just hope I can keep it together this week.
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Transfer update: 1 more student is transferring into study hall. This means that there will be 18 (19 if that student can't transfer out). I now have no free chairs in the class. Of course, the two new transfers are quite students, so that helps.
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