A DAY IN THE LIFE | High School Teacher Vlog

I will definitely say that it feels good to know that all my copies are made I'm not used to my new schedule yet and so my body hasn't quite adjusted and I just get so stinkin hungry I get like distracted by hunger which is a good reminder that so do kids it's a really good thing that I teach high school you know actually I can show you guys what I just need for pride and prejudice do you want me to of course you do here we go I am a person who has had anxiety for most of my adult life that I have managed and sometimes struggled with a little one just woke up I thought today I would vlog all day long and just kind of show you a little day of life so it is 6:44 right now especially a little bit later than I normally get into the kitchen to be making lunches but that's okay this guy just woke up and he is going to probably you want to help mommy put together lunches for the day okay we're gonna put together lunches and then he's gonna brush his teeth yes you're probably kind of hungry to have it well it's a good line Jana yeah okay we're gonna get moving on our morning routine here and I'll check in with you guys on the way to school you did almost fall down he's on a stool perched like a little birdie [Music] okay I am just about to make the commute to school and I like I said I don't have a too like crazy high energy day ahead of me which is nice on a Monday and plus I ran into my classroom yesterday afternoon on a Sunday to get things set up that I wasn't able to get done on Friday I normally would have just stayed later on Friday last week was the first week of our quarter so it was like a little bit jam-packed anyways which is why I wasn't like overly prepared or like our new term and a new quarter I have all new kids and so this is gonna be day five that I am seeing them so do I know all of their names no I certainly do not what human would there are a hundred and ten of them I am working on stuff like that so my brains a little bit like pressed for space um and like I said I'm starting two new units one in each of my classes so I went and set up yesterday because it was kind of a long weekend we went to Disney so I will definitely say that it feels good to know that all my copies are made because there's so many mornings especially with little kids that like because I have to leave school by a certain time to go and get my kids I don't always get that like later state I'm even on like I try not to do it anyway so very often especially like I did early in my career staying really late to prep stuff I've taught these things enough times and even the new stuff like I know what I'm doing enough to the point where like prep doesn't take me as long except for what it does right so what I have to leave to going at my kiddos I really do my best to just leave it all behind and then if I need to take time it's like not me taking time away or like half paying attention my kids they'll be like to my husband like you take them I need an hour um and so I came in yesterday and I just got my copies done so they didn't have to rush in this morning and it's all just sitting nicely it's not like super well set up so I do have a little bit of setup to do I'm gonna like be turning on my projector when I get in the classroom I'll be putting up the daily agenda and getting things going hopefully this is like fingers crossed that I turned the heat back on Friday I couldn't tell because yesterday like the whole system is off for the weekend I'm so hopefully turn it back on I forgot to check when I went in yesterday otherwise it's gonna be quite chilly in my you'll see you hello again so it is almost the end of the day actually end of the school day I'm on my prep period right now and I had a different prep period in the first term of the year I went I taught periods one and two and then I had prep third and we have lunch and then I had fourth period at a class now I have a fourth period prep and like it's not that big of a difference but it is a difference because I found myself eating my lunch at like 11:00 a.m. on my prep before and now I have to wait until 12:30 and it's like I start to get like oh okay now are we done now can we go and it's not the kids fault they're hungry too but I'm just like oh my goodness I'm not used to my new schedule yet and so my body hasn't quite adjusted and I just get so stinkin hungry I get like distracted by hunger which is a good reminder that so do kids so like I have a different food policy than a lot of other people which is basically like if you feel like you're getting distracted by hunger like being kind of grown-up about it step outside eat something if the timing is right and then come back in so that you can focus you know and it's just kind of case-by-case and obviously you know kids are kids and some kids are gonna abuse something like that so then we have to like deal but for the most part it's not a big problem if you're hungry go eat something and then come back and if you miss something figure it out like that's just kind of where I'm at in here it's a really good thing that I teach high school you know I just sat for I have a 90 minute prep because we have 90 minute periods and I just sat for the first hour and it was just prepping stuff for tomorrow because I am teaching too well Pride and Prejudice for my seniors is a brand new unit and it's a mini unit that I'm doing in a five-day little span so I just have little things to prep and I wanted to make sure that they're really like well done so we're not kind of scrounging and I'm not just like putting in half effort I want to do things really really well this first time around and I can just make adjustments for the next time I teach it and then my sophomores are doing Lord of the Flies like I said before but it's a mini unit so I'm teaching it in kind of a new way I'm using a lot of things mostly stuff I've done before but I'm putting it together in a new fashion like I'm reordering things a bit so it's just a matter of like wrapping my head around it and making actually I can show you that's what I just made for Pride and Prejudice do you want me to of course you do here we go what we are looking at in this unit is like our essential question is to what extent do our relationships and we're going to talk about different types of relationships shape personality or like what did I say do you like how I'm planning this and I can't remember it but it's something like that so what I've been doing because this is a mini unit we are gonna be watching the entire film I have made two close reading handouts looking specifically at two types of relationships a family relationship so we're looking at Elizabeth and her sister Jane and we are looking at friendships so I'm looking at two different friendships Bingley and Darcy and then Elizabeth and Charlotte and we're looking at these different family and friend relationships through three different lenses I have a couple more well close reading handouts that I need to prepare for Wednesday because this is for tomorrow Tuesday which I will be doing in a little bit but I need to go make copies of this so that I don't have to think about it tomorrow I don't want to forget that and then I need to prep I like didn't prep my daily agenda slides last week like I was so on top of things and then I just like didn't do the really basic stuff so I need to take care of that I need to go talk to one of our counselors about a couple of kids that I'm seeing a weird dynamic between and they're both in this counselors alpha there was just like things that happen at the beginning of the year that are now happening because it's the beginning of a term I need to go and take care of so I'm gonna run out to the office and take care of that kind of stuff by the time I come and check in with you guys it will be the end of the day and let you know what I'm working on this sad day in my life it's a busy day my day starts at like 5:00 4:45 5 o'clock in the morning and then it's just like go go go go go I'm sitting down in the quiet for one of the very few times that I actually do that and yes I'm at work and yes I'm still doing things so my brain still going but like my body is quiet and it's so nice and I need to go track down some chocolate or a cookie because uh I got hankerin okay I'm gonna go you silly girl hello again so I am home it is almost 5:30 um I realized I don't even tell you so the appointment that I had today was actually a therapy appointment I have them every other week and yes it's nice because I just get like a little bit of Julie like check in and think these things and I am a person who has had anxiety for most of my adult life that I have managed and sometimes struggled with and I have limit has struggled with depression and so I know the benefits why are you using big girl words anyways I know the benefits of going and talking to a mental health health professional and I feel the benefits so I go sometimes more often but I do go pretty regularly and I take breaks here and there but it's just something that I know it's like really good for me and good for most people so that's why I went tonight and now I'm home and my husband's actually starting on dinner I'm gonna go help him prep that and then it's going to be um a little bit of being silly time I mean the kids go to bed Oh night-night bye like 7:30 so between now and then there's going to be like shower and bath there's going to be we read before bed for like 30 minutes or so so like that takes us to like oh I know it's dark outside till like 7 o'clock and then after the kids go to bed I normally read for a little bit my husband and I might watch a show or something and like just hang out a little bit I pretty much started go to bed by like 9 o'clock so like lights out for me because I'm a tired person um but yeah thank you guys for coming around today with me like I said it wasn't too crazy of a teaching day it was just like a lot of chores and different things to get done on my to-do list and I had that appointment after school and now I am home with my little cutie pies and we are going to get going on our evening and begin our evening routine so thank you so much for watching if you have not already subscribed take them out to do so click the little bell so you get alerts and when I post videos and you don't miss anything and I will see you guys next time bye you say bye bye can you say bye like a big girl [Music] [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 11min 41sec (701 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 02 2020