Today was so hard to wake up. I got home from my drive back up from the bay a little bit after 12:15 in the am. I'm finally getting better. It felt like I was sick forever!
Today was kinda cool. I helped one of my favorite students with her math homework (really they're all my favorite, just some of them behave in ways I'd rather them not) . She's in Algebra I and I know that she struggles with it. We worked for the whole lunch period while I helped another girl who was absent all last week make up a meiosis simulation. After school, the girl with the math came back in and I helped her through almost all of her homework, another girl who was absent last week as well made up her meiosis simulation and I helped a 3rd student clarify the difference between haploid, diploid, chromosomes, doubled chromosomes, chromatids, tetrads, crossing over, and mitosis versus meiosis. I do feel for them on this unit, mitosis and meiosis together can be a little bit confusing but I think that the two go together. Sometimes I think that if my students were paying attention the first time I taught things it would be easier. I mean I re-explain it to them the same way and then they just "Ahhh...I get it!" Miraculous! Hahahahaha!!!
It was cool helping that student with her math homework because I was able to explain it all to her and she really seems to be getting it. I hope she does well on her test. I mostly just emphasized that you need to write down all the steps. When it says to use slope and a point on the line to make an equation in slope-intercept form, write slope-intercept form y = mx + b so you know what you're going for.
I also spent a lot of time, the entire evening, applying for jobs. Or at least making sure I know what each job I'm applying for needs. It's so much easier with all of it being online. However, staring at the computer is a problem! I applied for I think 7 summer school jobs in the central valley, east bay and south bay regions. I found a job in Vista, San Diego. I applied to Los-Gatos Saratoga Union (Saratoga High). I am almost done with my app for Palo Alto Unified (of course they can't use ed join like everyone else!) lol. Basically just searching and applying to as many places as I can. My job wish list on edjoin has 17 schools. Oh yeah, I applied to a job for Chico Unified yesterday that was due today. It says that the "district viewed" so that is sort of exciting. Even though obviously they're going to view all the applications...
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