Subbing Adventures in Pictures

I was going through my cell phone and I realized I had some pictures from my subbing adventures on it and decided I would put them in a blog.

This was in a AP World History Room at International High School. I was there for a week and starring out of those huge windows was a distraction for me and the students, because it was sunny during that week. However, staring out those windows reminded of something Dr. Kress said about when you look out windows you are thinking about sex.

I remember this classroom at Bellevue High School. The teacher was an English teacher and she had "It's Good to be Queen" crap allover the place and honestly the messiest female teacher desk I ever saw. I have OCD/CleanFreak issues, so it takes a lot for me not to want to clean other teacher's desks sometimes.

This is a white-board from a classroom I sub very often at Sammamish High School. The class is Special Ed - Resource Room (mostly Study Skills and Practical English). We tend to have a little too much fun when I am in that room.

This is taken at Robinswood High School. It is the "alternative school," and I sub there quite frequently. This is in Kristn's History classroom. Yes, we have the same name and personality, which scared the students the first time I was in there. Unfortuantely, they are closing Robinswood at the end of this year and all the teachers are moving to other schools in the district. I know that Robinswood has gotten a bad rap and I always stand up for it in other schools, but it was the place that would take students where there was not where else to go. I am going to miss this place.

This is the classroom and desk I sat in at the beginning of the year, I started subbing the fourth day in and I was the third sub that week. The teacher did not leave any lesson plans and the students didn't have any World History textbooks. It was a rocky start because the Principal and the District was sure what was going on because the teacher would call in every morning. For a good 48 hours I was going to become the long-term sub and then they decided to switch to someone who has long-termed subbed before. I think they wanted to start over with the class with a new sub that was prepared, because I got thrown in the hell hole and almost made it out when they decided to let me go. FYI: After I left they still have about 6 more subs after me. They finally got a long-term sub towards the end of Fall Semester. Students when they see me, tell me I was still their favorite sub and the nicest out of them all.

This is from the 2008-2009 school year, when I subbed a week and a half for AP World History and AP Economics. 6th period christened me with "C-Momma." You can still hear students yell it, when they see me in the hallway.

Another History classroom at Robinswood High School. I am here a lot, too.

This Male Middle School Math teacher had the audacity to expect me to correct 5 classes of math assignments during his prep periods. His sub plans were underlined with expectations that I would correct all this math. I did, in spite. But I never did sub for that teacher again.

I just remembered. I was only suppose to sub for the morning and when I got there to sub the office asked if I could stay the whole day because the teacher "just" called in. Punk.

Middle School students are funny sometimes.

This was the classroom I did my full-time student teaching at Northshore Christian Academy with Ms. Mary Kay Schuller (who is the bomb!). I do miss those 6th graders, who are now in high school. Now, I feel old.