Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
August 06, 2004
First school day!
There were two stresses today. I still have no computer. Also, our principal took over the intercom this morning and gave a 15 minute 'talk' that was elementary school level to our high school kids. He has an elementary school background but it's rather embarassing the way he talks to students who are almost adults.
The good news is that I actually got to teach today. I have two classes of regular 9th grade Biology and one class of 9th grade Honors Biology. We had a lot of fun with an opening activity on using the sense of touch. Volunteers put their hand through a hole in a box and tried to identify objects by touch. The cow eye was an interesting one! I really enjoy the teaching aspects of education. If they could take care of the ridiculous administrative issues, the rest is wonderful. I had less stress today and experienced a clearing of the rosacea flushing. It did get a little warm in class this afternoon and this caused some flushing. I sprayed my face with some cold water before the last period and that helped. You know, if the front office would get their act together and support us instead of causing stress this would be a great job. I love the interaction with the kids where I try to help them to think outside the box. It is very rewarding seeing students learning. My rosacea symptoms would be under good control if I could just lock myself in my room and teach. It's all of the other garbage that brings on the stress. All in all it was a pretty good day. I'm tired and my feet hurt so I must have done something right.
Posted by Ken Albin on August 6, 2004 03:11 PM