Being a traveling teacher between 3 buildings I dont have access to email until 1pm evreyday. So I am pretty much in the dark if something is going on that hs been emailed to me. I check my emial and am told to send work down for kids who have detention...but by the time i get the email detention is over. at this time the school wont provide me with a blackberry to check my email or a phone..i use my old cell phone but dont have an internet package with it...im not sure how to remedy this...does anyone else travel?
Hi, Janine-
I travel to three schools like you do. My district did provide us with iPod Touches last year. I do have a suggestion. Is it possible to go to a classroom or office close to the gym to log-on to get your email before 1 p.m.? I spent several years doing that. Good luck.
Joy
Hi Janine! Maybe you could have people call you instead of emailing you. I am sure once they realize your schedule and you remind them a few times that it will get better for you. Traveling is quite cumbersome sometimes! .....Sue
I used to travel for a long term substitute position. I was traveling between 12 schools and was covering K-12 for adapted PE. What I found to be the easiest when I needed to provide written work was to prepare the written assignments prior to the start of the year. I would give them to the detention teacher to give to the students when they came. It was a lot of pre-planning but found this to be effective. Depending on the grade level there are a ton of online resources (Edhelper.com is one, PE Central is another) that you can get a variety of assignments. I hope this helps.
I loved traveling to see different programs and ideas but did not like that I did not have a program of my own.