First Week at Work

My first day / week was quite a transition:    -  In  the Past                                                                  

•  knowing exactly what classroom
•  about 24 kids 
•  room set up
•  planning completed
•  first day activities
•  big open space of classroom
•  moving around the room
•  room full of parents on first day
• staying on site
• I knew all the systems - expectations, colleagues ...

Present                                    Quite Different

• small office
• no kids for first week - no parents either (yet)
• setting up testing kit
• reviewing systems
• getting to know resources, recording systems ... and the new photocopier of course
• getting out and about means travelling to other schools
• meeting three sets of staff -teachers - staffroom - sorting out office space in each school
• finding fastest way around Rotorua  (easy now)
• trialling best way to carry all my stuff from one school to next  - mobile office of sorts

Feelings: Quite a few changes but everything manageable at this stage and after the first week under my belt I felt much better.  Have been liaising with key people in the three schools where I will be working, met classroom teachers and some of the students.