I’m not that worried about the new courses I start teaching tomorrow. For those who are new to the blog — I taught computer science for 14 years.
Nice retrospective — I started out teaching computer math, with BASIC on Commodore 64’s and AP Computer Science, which was Pascal. In the years, I’ve gone to teaching on real IBM PCs in a networked lab, teaching QBasic and Pascal, and then to Visual Basic and C++. Even last year, I’d been doing Java for a couple of years, and sitll was doing Visual Basic.
Yesterday was really good. We had a computer lab set up for the math students work do tutorials on. Four of our math teachers showed up included the math department chair. We worked in one lab for a while, then fed the kids, then moved them to a different lab. The different lab was my new lab, and I found the gradebooks. Now I know my student’s names and have some grades for them.
Since we had so many people, it freed me up to spend a couple of hours, even paid, to get situated.
I may even be able to move my Algebra I class into the building, we’ll have to see.
Right now, I’m working on getting my class website back up and working on lessons for the week.