At the cram school where I worked, Sundays and Mondays were days off for the staff.
I also went to cram school when I was in junior high and high school, but we had classes and parent-teacher conference on Sundays.
So I thought it was an absolute lie that Sundays are staff days off, even though it's a cram school. 🙄
But I was really off on Sundays the first year. 🤗
I played baseball all my life from the 4th grade of elementary school until I graduated from university, so this was my first experience to have two free days or days off in a week. 😁✨
It was also the first Golden Week without baseball. 😲
In Japan, there are many holidays from the end of April to the beginning of May, which are collectively called "Golden Week."
During the Golden Week holidays of my first year in the workforce, I spent a lot of time playing Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2, which had just been released at the time, thinking, "I have so much more time on my hands without baseball. 😜
In my first year, I was in charge of Japanese for elementary and junior high school students.
*In fact, I was also in charge of English for elementary school students, but I won't go into that here. 😝
At the cram school where I was working at the time, Japanese classes for junior high school students were held only once every two weeks, so I spent two weeks teaching the same class at various school buildings.
It's my class tour. 😎✨
I love teaching classes so much, so for me, it was a great environment. 😁✨
By the way, my two-week schedule looks like bellow.
Two weeks in my first year of work
【1st week】
Tue：Japanese(E)①、Japanese(JH)①
Wed：Japanese(E)①、Japanese(JH)①
Thu：Japanese(E)①、Japanese(JH)①
Fri：Japanese(E)①、Japanese(JH)①
Sat：Japanese(JH)①
Sun：Day Off
Mon：Day Off
【2nd week】
火：Japanese(E)②、Japanese(JH)①
水：Japanese(E)②、Japanese(JH)①
木：Japanese(E)②、Japanese(JH)①
金：Japanese(E)②、Japanese(JH)①
土：No Class
日：Day Off
月：Day Off
Japanese(E) represents the Japanese language class of elementary school students, and Japanese(JH) represents that of junior high school students.
In Japanese(E), the classes are for grades 4-6 of elementary school, and in Japanese(JH), the classes are for grades 1-3 of junior high school.
Of course, classes vary from grade to grade.
The circled numbers, ① and ② indicate the kind of class.
So, 【1st week】 Tuesday-Friday, Japanese (E)① means that on each day of the week, I am in charge of teaching Japanese classes for 4th-6th graders in elementary school at different school buildings and teach the same content for each grade.
The same is applied to junior high school students.
Japanese(JH)① means that on each day of the week, in different school buildings, I am in charge of teaching Japanese for grades 1-3 of junior high school, and I teach the same content for each grade.
The content taught to elementary school students changes every week, while the content taught to junior high school students changes every two weeks.
There was one Saturday every two weeks when I was not in charge of the class, so I felt relaxed on that day. 😎✨
Well, my daily schedule looks something like this.
A day in my first year of work
12:00 Wake up & Breakfast
12:15 Take Shower (1)
12:45 Drive to work
13:00 Attendance (at work)
13:30 Morning assembly
14:00 Various tasks
15:00 Departure to School Building & Lunch
16:30 Welcome Students
16:50 Start of Elementary School Classes
18:50 End of Elementary School Classes
19:00 Start of Junior High School Classes
21:30 End of Junior High School Classes
23:00 Leave Work from School Building
23:45 Dinner at Sukiya (Mainly, Gyudon with Green Onion and Raw Egg)
24:15 Return Home & Take Shower (2)
25:00 Sleep
I shower twice a day. 😝
Also, you may have noticed that there is no mention of class prep time in either the daily or weekly schedule. 🙄
Of course, the "14:00-15:00 Various tasks" in the daily schedule doesn't allow me to prep for classes.
Yes, you're right👍
My Prep Time is on my Day Off within my weekly schedule. 🤪
Okay, next time I'll talk about behind-the-scenes of classes and prep!
to be continued...
