Not the most imaginative post title in the world, is it? It doesn't really inspire excitement.
But here I am on a Saturday night- laminating. I left friends at the bar after impro and said "Well I have to go home and get my laminating done." They looked at me like I was a crazy person.
"You have a laminator?" they asked, stunned by the idea. They weren't teaching people. They just didn't get it.
Not that I'm really complaining- this is laminating that I put my hand up and volunteered to do. It's work that is over and above my day-job. But it also reminded me of what I used to do as a Classroom Teacher. What was quite simply expected of me in my old day-job. Tonight's effort is about 55 sheets, which, if it were for school would translate to slightly less than two class sets of something. That was about half my weekly literacy photocopying. Maths often ran to the same amount. I'm still trying to figure out how I used to manage it.
I guess what I'm saying is, next time a Classroom Teacher hands you a laminated literacy card, remember that they have been hard at work, well beyond three o-clock, printing and laminating and cutting away. And remember, if you are thinking of sticking with Supply Teaching, that you won't have to (unless you are silly enough to run a workshop or two).
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