Engagement Project (1)

I'm an Elementary Education Major, and as a part of my major I'm required to do a 30 hour service project. I've decided to "double-dip" and use this service project for my class. I've been helping a few fourth grade teachers at Mt. Green Elementary school with their prep work for next year.

May is a very relaxed month for the the fourth grade team at Mt. Green Elementary School. Mrs. Fearn said that the teachers and the students are "done." SAGE testing is finished and the kids are burned out. So, on May 19th and 20th, I went up to Mrs. Fearn's classroom to do help her put in grades, and get going on prep work for the next school year. Mrs. Fearn likes to do a lot of the prep work during the "relaxed time" so she can enjoy most of her summer and not worry as much about school until August.

It's crazy how much teachers work after hours. They do A LOT of prep work which includes, cutting, gluing, designing lesson plans, writing their schedules, writing letters to parents, making their "Welcome to 4th grade!" mailing packets, etc. They do all of this during their "time off" and recently the teachers in Morgan school district no longer get paid to do this. Teachers used to get 10 paid planning days. Due to budget cuts, they no longer receive compensation for those 10 days. Just by spending time with the 4th grade team here, I'm learning a lot about the "realities" of becoming a teacher.

Me grading papers

Grading more papers and creating spreadsheets