Being Mam Redican

Good morning!

Good morning, mam.

How is your morning?

Fine, mam. How is your morning?

Fine.

Teaching here is pretty much the same as NYC.

Teachers here, my colleagues, ask a lot about how things are done in the US, we are both surprised to find that both systems are very much the same, just different jargon.

As far as the classroom, I am very lucky. They were kind enough to give me only 4 sections to teach (11A, and 10 A,B,C), and I teach them each 4 times a week. Other than that, I have lots of time for planning and grading, etc.

Also, for the next couple of weeks I have a student teacher helping me with the grade 10s. She is the sister of the other Physical Science teacher I work with, and she needed to complete student teaching hours before heading back to college coursework. The timing of this was great, since she was able to take over my classes while I was dealing with my car.