A Week in the Life of a Dubai Teacher | Episode 1

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] y'all y'all I am about to crime so happy like I just I love my assistant she is so she's so great I wanted to label those new cubbies and I had mentioned that to my assistant and she did it for me and put tape on it y'all but now I'm gonna color coat this so let's get to it [Music] for reading green will be for social studies and then blue is for computer and I teach computer but I just man affected color for her and they also have books for Islamic an Arabic in those windy colors as well but right now I'm just focusing on the four that I just listed see how it turns out hopefully you'll make it easier for them them hopefully will make it easier for them to just run over and grab a bowl and when I say go grab your math books remember those the pinks and you grab everything that's paid I'm currently in between classes right now my kids are having Arabic and Islamic and I come in to my friend Grace's room too lesson plan and get my life together you know today has been really rough I had one student tell me I'm hungry I say you're hungry you just came back from breakfast and she said no no no and she got a friend very much rich she got a friend and spoke Arabic to her friend and the girl told me she said she does not feel well her stomach hurts I said okay let me give these instructions and I'll take you right to the nurse I turn around like in the split second and this is how teaching really goes like stuff happens in the blink of an eye calling the nurse and it's taking too long so I say okay I'm gonna go to the reception area the reception's look at me like being stitched in this blah blah blah I'm like I know I just it's taking too long I have a little girl throwing a the extension in his blah blah blah so I say you know what let me just hike up this skirt and start running so I ran all the way down the hallway and got the nurse we ran back together like she knew that it was an urgent situation my girl was throwing up a lot and so yeah that was handled it's a lot it wears on you I'm tired but I have so much more to do that's why I'm sitting in here to get some work done I have printing to do and I'm laminations to be made and we're getting ready for inspections the Ministry of Education is coming so everyone's getting their rooms together but grace it's about to come back in here with a small group so I want to be as quiet as possible and yeah I just sit in here listen to music do my work until my kids need me and today I found out that I have a bus duty that's like the most craziest thing so now I don't get to spend the last minutes of the day with my students because I have a duty so on Sundays now I have two duties during the day so one is at the girls canteen I just walk around make sure everybody's good not sitting on the floor eating sitting on a table and the other is after school bus duty and y'all look at my hair just look at him it's frizzy just a mess like some major stuff needs to happen need a Red Bull so I didn't have us TV it was just so that they know that I have a free period but I don't really don't want people to know that I have a pretty free period because that's a good way to become a sub for someone else but whatever I'll do it because someone's gonna have to do it for me one of these days so now it's just in today all my kids are going on I packing up cleaning up my space turning everything off and one of the parents pick my parents are so sweet like I showed you some of the things my god you know it's Happy New Year and y'all know I said in one of my videos before and not just any kind of chocolate y'all this is Russian chocolate because I had a Russian baby a Russian learner in my class and just super sweet I'm excited my kids did very well with the transitions and they picked it up really well we started learning the end-of-the-year performance dance I'm not gonna divulge into what exactly it is or what song we're doing cuz I wanted to be a surprise but I'm sorry learning that they didn't okay with the choreography I think I may tweak it a little bit just to make a little bit easier for them and overall there was an okay day so we'll see what tomorrow holds hi so my day is not over yet I actually decided to [Music] so here are the English books that they have made a basically folktales and story time they have some posters that is not stupid [Music] [Music] so I think is my type of gambling I bought diesel wooden cubes that like in the craft section so I'm just going to [Music] just waiting on my taxi right now this may be my last vlog for the day uh oh no tonight was pretty long I'm tired good morning it is a Monday and I'm on time I'm ahead of time but I can already hear my kids playing outside so I thought they'd let them in shortly even though I'm not supposed to let them in until 7:30 I want to check my email first but on today's agenda we have social studies to begin with we're we're just talking about our homes and the things around our homes and directions things of that nature I'm just gonna show them Google Earth and I'll show them that before they're just like any kid would I'm gonna show them my grandmother's house and where I grew up and what was around that area I've talked to them about this before in another lesson so they've heard about the cotton fields and the farms and different animals that I see in my neighborhood and they no one's very different they can understand that let me see what else then they have art than mad oh let me show you the cubes that I need to make it to die wish that we were colored but I'll do like a colored permanent marker on now then computer then English today Oh today we're doing spelling practice and some one-on-one conferences not working definitely need to get some coffee in my system they have Arabic and then English and then I'm off tomorrow well not really off but it's a professional development let me just tell you I hate lesson plans I hate lesson plans and hang is a strong word I just feel like I don't like doing them you know and I feel like that's okay to say but I know that it has to get done I understand from an administrator administrative point like what it is you want to see what we're doing in the classroom and you want us to be aware of the standards of what we're supposed to cover but I just feel like it there should be a different way to do that like I like writing things down and piecing things together but I hate using my computer and typing them out in that way and I'm on duty these girls are walking by looking at me I'm just waiting for the kids to come out to the playground for my duty right now they're in the canteen so my kids are at art I'm about to prepare for my math lesson I've already sent off my copies I need to make those guys and I need to clean up we just did our social studies so I'm just gonna stop talking to get to it I've been doing their things for them the cubby work for them i grabbing their things i Makani just to review them about where they live thinks of that nature [Music] [Music] [Music] do y'all have I wanted to talk to y'all while I make these thanks but do y'all have just stuff that you do during your planning that clones you all the way down for me as CeCe Winans the Lions are gift from God their voice just I probably missed these up if I start talking about trying to do so that did not go how I wanted it to I should have prepared more and they just didn't well they understood the game the role counts and covering they understood the game it was just I think they were too excited I think that they got too excited it was very chaotic and I don't know what it was I don't know what the issue was like I I'm usually good with the chaos I think it's the acoustics in the room I was not able to keep my small group focused so maybe I need to implement some type of like noise meter but now I gotta clean up and get ready for English [Music] today I'm out to cash is good and why it's my [Music] I'm a millionaire but I feel like [Music] [Music] good morning so today is a good day full of professional development I'm attending the Professional Development and then I'm actually reading a PD after school at our staff meeting so it's gonna be cool let me funds gonna be just extremely extraordinary my PD is going to be on differentiation and the PD that I'm attending is on disabilities and professional developments are like oh my hand is shaking am I getting old forward in that shape that's just my hand [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] professional development professional development was professional development my workshop went okay and they understood what I was talking about the first professional development though about the disabilities we talked about ADHD and we ate a lot I love that professional development because they give you breakfast which is like croissants and coffee and fruit and then you have a separate tea time and you learn some more so yeah professional development I am professional development it did professional development to do professional development 'add out okay I'm done for the day good morning good morning good morning [Music] good morning [Music] [Music] in Grace's room about to just get some work done get some extra planning done graces out the room right now but I just like coming into her room because I like a hideout spot no one bothers me in here and I'm able to just clear my head relax and work and she's so positive you know we're going to yoga tonight I'm just a good friend to have and I'm getting ready for International Day and I found that I cannot do America because someone else chose it which is fine I'll choose another country for International Day but when I looked at the list it was like other teachers of other nationalities did not choose their own countries and you know to each his own maybe they have personal reasons for that but it's just kind of sad you know and then I started looking at myself what I want to represent the one always gonna represent a mirror because that America because that's who I am but what I want to teach these kids to love America and America is great we're not a welcoming country right now for Muslims that doesn't mean for everyone you know there are lots of people that are very open-minded and respectful of other religions but you're only president is just a hot mess is that something that you would want to celebrate and teach so I'm not too upset that I can't do America but my other option is to do Africa and I know it does a continent but I would teach them the different countries in different parts of Africa and I have a lot of students that have nannies that are from Africa so that's another way that they would be able to learn in the home it would make it more personal I want them to step into Africa so I really want to start thing about that and that's on February in February on the 22nd so I have some time to get some things together I was talking to my assistant she completely messed up one of my assignments and the thing is like I told her exactly how I wanted it done and all it was was sorting like the kids had the mats it was long you short you they had mats that I wanted them to sort the words into and she cut everything for them even after I told her don't cut it for them like you can cut them into strips but each child needs three strips and now they're all in different tiles you have to redo this I want it and I know it's not gonna get done but just the downside there's negatives and positives cuz I'm on that person like if I want something done a certain way or the right way or the way that I think is right I'm gonna do it myself so giving her tasks is hard for me so I have playground Duty again and I'm just sitting waiting for the kids actually finish their food and come out to the playground and yeah I'm craving some Buffalo Wild Wings right now like that's what I really want and I know that I'm not gonna be able to get that here and I know that that's bad it's processed food it's not good for you but that's what I'm craving even if I was able to get it here because I've had hot wings here before saying it's not the same chicken is like really different here some food that I have had here that's really good Lebanese food their chicken is so good so marinated because you can teach all no empty spots you cannot eat on an empty stomach I love me some food definitely doing Africa and I I don't want to do like a South Africa or West Africa I'm just doing Africa as a continent we have we see one more we're about to teach science and then we'll do our spelling test we made one our spelling test and then science because science of today is going to be fun just a drawing and labeling read aloud discussion type thing so maybe I'll save that for the end of the day oh he's on after work and we're going to yoga with grace in the middle of my face but you're a third eye yeah it's copening I'm so excited understand [Music] [Music] Oh yoga was no Yoga was like yoga was nice we were on the beach the Sun was setting then it got dark and I was stargazing and breathing and singing it wishes you ain't done yoga on the beach you need to do yoga on the beach okay so what else I didn't really I think I got like some of the atmosphere that we were in but it was blurry and oh my god that's okay no go in go away no no this cat looks so sad and mangy it's not an animal person well I'm an animal person when they keep their distance like I said oh my goodness you're so cute but don't touch me don't rub up on me I don't like to feel the fur cancer it's way too soft I know that sounds crazy but I just don't like I need you to be a little rough like I like the feel of a dog's fur but dogs aren't always so crazy like they jump up on you so I don't really like like you keep your distance too so they are at breakfast right now and it's one of my students birthdays and his bad already asked me if he could go ahead and bring some things so I said sure why not you know just don't make it anything like too extravagant because we're not supposed to celebrate birthdays or have birthday parties and I don't think he listened but it's okay he brought all of my students a it's like a math course with letters I don't know if they're stickers or not but they're manipulated manipulatives and then it's a chalkboard and it says happy birthday boy with his name on it there's a marker with an eraser a dry erase marker with an eraser chopped and an additional like 12 board eraser so and it has a little string so I can like well we can't really attach things to the walls but I can have some kind of hook maybe not a hook maybe I'll just stack them up somewhere in my room I just like that they have this string but I want to put the children's names on them so that is special to them they can keep it in their cubby yeah it's just super nice I bet this was so expensive in each child at Ashland and then of course they brought cake the Boyd's with me there was a butter cake I don't really know what that means I haven't looked at it yet but all the girls have anything else in here I don't think that they brought a lighter but enough candles they brought candles and it's like two big cakes to so yeah that's what we're doing for the end of the day I'm just super excited about these because I have my shipment coming from home and they have marker boards in them but I didn't pack all the marker boards that I had or all the markers that I had because I was afraid that it was gonna be just too expensive to ship so now this is just this is a blessing you know because there's so much that you can do with a marker board and a marker individual marker boards and markers so Oh what if their mini mini I really want to well I could go ahead an open one he brought too many anyway so one of them is going to be mine it's like my birthday I'm so excited having such a good day [Music] oh I have a substitution and kg2 today and those kids are super smart like I'm not gonna be only teacher like I know I'm not I know I'm not I get so excited about little stuff like this it's not a little stuff to me this is big stuff because it I can do so much with this it's a marker board we can they can individually write down their high frequency words sight words sounds what sound do you hear in this word whole group instruction is in their laps right now I love this man oh my goodness and mom they're just such great people such wonderful people you have no idea how happy this makes me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so they were able to do that very well I like that activity I got from one of my I got that from an older teacher so I got that activity and a binder from a veteran teacher loved it it worked it's easy it's what they needed and I can differentiate by my assistants messed up it actually worked out perfectly you know God works in mysterious ways so I told her I just need them in strips so what she did was she glued it back into the strip's that she was originally supposed to leave it in and some students just were able to handle one strip which has like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 words on it and others were able to handle all three strips and sort all three strips of words so it worked out he was able to differentiate from her mistakes and I have to tell her that because she was very like apologetic because I had to change my lessons yesterday and I told her that it was ok just you know listen to me next time so I have to tell her it actually did work out and they were able to do it they were able to read the words after they sorted them because of that long oh and I love alpha blocks so nice so what you just saw I've played alpha blocks for their mob of setting up the materials and makes life so much easier because they were able to review that's not how I taught them the sound it's like alpha blocks is the I use a box to supplement in review so they love alpha box I love alpha blocks Thank You alpha blocks and now I told them some a lot of them didn't finish I'm looking at one man that has like two to three four words on it and they're gonna finish their English activities we're going to celebrate the birthday finish math that we started on during our first math session and pack up and go home yeah oh I have Bragg tags to give out today so I just had another duty that was on the boys playground so net and I wasn't able to prepare the cake like I wanted to my kids are about to come back so I'm gonna go ahead and wash my hands and hopefully I can get it done if not I'll just have my assistant do it while I'm going around helping them with finish their activities but I will try to get it done as quick as possible [Music] that was a passenger [Music] we are [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 40min 59sec (2459 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 10 2018