Miscommunications

This week was a good week. We both survived our first full week of classes. I walked into the teacher’s room on Monday morning and was asked “Are you teaching your 3^rd grade SIP class today.” I stopped for a second and thought “I’m not supposed to teach that class till next week, right?” I guess I was misinformed. I was going to teach a class of 9 year olds for 40 minutes with no lesson plan, no idea of what they knew, and with not very much Bulgarian. Luckily, I can be creative and we all survived. After class, I went to my assistant director’s office to ask her a question. When I arrived, she looked at me and said “Done already. You are supposed to have them for two periods, 80 minutes. Never mind today just remember for tomorrow when you teach the other group of 3^rd graders.” Another miscommunication, I guess. I decided to tell her that I want to teach as much as I can, but two periods with 3^rd graders was going to be TOO LONG for them. It is hard for them to pay attention for 20 minutes, let alone 80! She said that she understood and would talk to the director about making them only one class a week. Luckily, that worked and now my SIP classes are only for 40 minutes a week. I think I would have gone crazy otherwise.