I got a last minute teaching job on Dec. 19, the last school day this year...Desert Oasis HS...teaching architecture/CADD (computer aided design). There was an experience!! Most schools have alternating days where different subjects are taught on alternating days. Because of the snow day Thurs., Dec. 18, they had switched the days. But apparently Mr. Lewis, the architecture teacher, didn't know it. So he left great instructions for his ART Classes, but non for architecture. I walked into each of this three 90 minute CADD classes with no instructions, no rosters and not a clue how to teach computer aided design for architecture.
Naturally I worked it out. I happened to have kept in my emergency file some geometric plot instructions from the math class I had taught recently, so I had them plot that graphic on their computers (luckily they knew how) and print out the results on paper to turn in for credit. (I hope the teacher gave them credit...I haven't heard from him.) It happened to be a design of a Santa head, so it was fun, too. The remaining time I gave them brainteasers and word puzzles and showed them pictures of my Santa stuff. Anything to fill the time, right?
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