{"id":2576,"date":"2015-01-13T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T08:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2015-01-31T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T04:12:34","slug":"another-work-weekend-1-10-11-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Another work weekend, 1\/ 10-11 \/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

SATURDAY, 1\/10\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judy has a half-day of professional development sessions today. It\u2019s part of the make-up time from the APEC conference holidays back in November. It\u2019s a session on classroom management (discipline). After nearly 39 years, Judy\u2019s not that fired up about another session on how to handle a class. It\u2019s held in a small classroom and there isn\u2019t room to move, and certainly not pull out her computer and work on other things. She\u2019s beginning to count down how many more of these she\u2019ll have to participate in.<\/p>\n

After lunch, the musical cast meets and rehearses for 3 hours. They get a ton of good work done, but of course, there\u2019s never enough time.<\/p>\n

After rehearsal, Judy and Shannon head over to Sanlitun, where Dom and I meet them at Homeplate BBQ for dinner. We get caught up on some of Shannon\u2019s adventures in Sydney at a job fair. She\u2019s working hard putting together her faculty for next year.<\/p>\n

International schools have all the same problems as other schools, parents, scheduling, money, equipment. They have an added problem in that their faculty turns over frequently. We\u2019ve been impressed with the quality of the teachers here, but many of them are constantly looking for their next destination. School staffs where we\u2019ve taught in the past haven\u2019t been so itinerant. It\u2019s hard enough finding good teachers and holding them, but in this environment, the pressure to get good teachers is especially heavy.<\/p>\n

SUNDAY, 1\/11\/15<\/strong><\/p>\n

After 6 days of classes, rehearsals, and professional development sessions, Judy has a ton of computer work to do. IB teachers are required to assess each student in four different areas of learning, and since Judy has all the elementary school and half the middle school, that\u2019s a lot of input.<\/p>\n

I spend my time making some of the final contacts and airfare purchases for our summer cruise in the Mediterranean. Making these decisions 6 months in advance are based on some assumptions we\u2019re making obout when we\u2019ll be able to pack and ship our stuff out of Beijing back to the US. I hope I\u2019m guesses are correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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