Been subbing for almost 3 months. it has gone better than I expected. i found out I love teaching kindergarten. I took a week long assignment for a kindergarten class. wonderful kids. teacher is out of the country but left EXTENSIVE notes for each day. Other teachers are super helpful.
But I feel like i need an IT background to manage the class. I’m 36 years old. I grew up with chalkboards and projectors. I was in high school before I saw my first smart board.
Every day there is a lesson I should be teaching from the smart board. I cannot log into the application I need to get the slides. another teacher tried and she could not either. We need the real teachers credentials/log ins, which we don’t have. So I have to teach the lesson from the book which I don’t mind. But the teacher left notes about how important the slides are.
Kids are getting locked out of their chrome books and I don’t know what to do.
Last week I taught 2nd grade and just to get them to read a short story in science they had to get out their chromebooks, log in, and go through at least 6 different links/pages to get to the story. I had to explain to each kid how to do it. I didn’t have a chrome book so the assistant teacher gave me a paper copy of the short story. which was also available for every student in the room, but instead we spent 10 minutes trying to get everyone on the same screen.
Then I tried to teach math class , a lesson on area of a room. All the files and links were so confusing that the assistant teacher had to get a teacher from next door to show us what to do. this is not lack of planning from the absent teacher but districts assuming non teachers will be able to figure out technology specific to a certain school. it’s so frustrating, or maybe I am a dinosaur.