Hi again. In the last few days I've picked up a third part-time job. (Gee, I wish this qualified me for health care!) I will be teaching a 3hr/week beginning Japanese class at the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit on Thursday nights. I think anyone who is interested can register, so I'm not sure who my students will be--or how many I will have. But the woman I spoke with there said I pretty much have full reign over the class material and all that. I can pick the textbook, if I want to use one, and all that. I'm looking forward to our first class mid-September!
Last week I went to an orientation for DCDS and was able to meet two other new teachers for the 2008-09 school year, and I finally met the school's principal. (He was on vacation during my interview process.) Then I spent the afternoon in training sessions for new software the teachers are required to start using. It will help create what DCDS calls "assignment sheets" (which is like a calendar of the activities in the classroom) for our web pages--we also need to add files like our classroom policy and resources for the students. It seems really complicated... but it's supposed to help parents and students be more aware of what we are doing in the classroom. I hope it ends up being worth all the time we're going to have to put in for it!
Yesterday Becca and I took Malene and Jesper to the airport so they could go home to Denmark... It is kind of weird to think of them being gone--they were here for so long! We had a lot of fun and did a lot of catching up--and it was great to meet Jesper before the big day next summer! I really hope all the plans work out and we can all go to Copenhagen for the wedding. <3 It would be such a blast!
Well, I have a JCMU reunion party to get ready for! Bye!
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hoorah! this may be an old post, but it's always interesting to read the ideas of a new member to the DCD community. Indeed, I bet the portal is a lot of work, but it's helpful, isn't it?
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