Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New job!

Well I've been at my new job for a few weeks now, and so far it's MUCH better.  It's such a change to be respected as a specialist and have people solicit my ideas (they had me teach a sample lesson for their professional development the other day)--the school's really into integrating arts into their other subjects.  Plus, they've been working on supplying me with materials and hooking me up with ways to develop my teaching, myself.

The only difficulty lies in being part time.  When they prepared my schedule, I don't think they really thought about how long it would take me to set-up and take-down the keyboards I'm supposed to teach the students how to play (in the dance room, which is why I can't just leave them up).  Today it took me an hour (which meant I clocked out late).  And I love being asked for advice from other teachers, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to do that.  I'm used to teachers being full-time, and putting in as many extra hours as it takes, but I'm not really willing to do that when I'm paid hourly.


So...any advice, either about being a part-time teacher with full-time responsibilities, or about putting away keyboards really quickly?