St. George’s College (Week #55) – Day #248

 Date for Entry: (Monday 22 January 2024)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 26 January 2024)

[T2, W:04 – WD:14, (Td:2)*].

Dear Diary,

    I was sick at home today. I got a call from Ms. Mustapha for help to make two forms for the marchers. One form was for the marchers and another was for payments. I decided to make a form that fused all the information to make one document.

    I had to call Mrs Santana first to ask for a list of the students from Mitchell House. Before I sat down to get started, I got a call from Mrs. Gittens. She said that the baby came at 12:39 am. I'm very proud of the form; it seemed to be workable.

    It took me the entire evening to fix the two lists before making the form for Ms. Mustapha. I had the new list emailed back to Mrs Santana so that she could add it to her archives before creating the payment form.

Link(s):

• List of Mitchell House Students (2024) - Remade.**
• List of Mitchell House Students (2024) – Year Group.**
• Marchers and Payments Form (No. 1). **
• Marchers and Payments Form (No. 2). **

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:03 am – 4:52 pm)

Permission to Leave Classroom Form

Date for Entry: (Wednesday 18th January 2023)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Sunday 22nd January 2023)

St. George’s College (WEEK 15) – Day #64 [3/11]

Dear Diary,

    This afternoon I was called by Miss Chote in her office. She showed me a form that was used by another school for teachers to give students permission to leave the classroom during teaching time. Its image was a slip that I knew if I tried really hard, I could get four slips to fit on a legal-sized page.

    I got home a bit late in the night. It did not take me long (about ten minutes) to create this type of form. My only challenge was finding a font that was small enough to use less space on the paper but also one that look neat and easy for the eyes to look at.

    During our shout three-minute consultation over WhatsApp, there were only two easy amendments to do before it was sent to Dr Sookdeo for approval. It made the form become the third version. This form was now made a DAPHA Project and also a 'Universal Challenge'.

Link(s):

• Permission to Leave Classroom Form.

Daryl Zion M. Ali

Class Party Day & Forms

 Date for Entry: (Thursday 8th December 2022)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 10th December 2022)

Dear Diary,

    Today was the students’ final day for their class parties and report sheets. I personally found it was better for report books to avoid the printing and last-minute everything that usually occurs. It did happen that way too and the office was crowded with teachers waiting for reports to be printed on legal-sized sheets. I could recall there was one of the students that did not get a music grade and Miss Roberts had to go and insert it.

    I had on my red shirt and long black pants on that day. I did not dress up like some of the other students and teachers. My entire morning was spent in a classroom working on the teachers’ attendance sheets, and subject registers, and creating a new temporary mark sheet for plenty of coursework. Those mark sheets were literally labelled “plenty coursework” on the top.

    The Teachers’ Attendance Sheet would enable the Vice Principal to take attendance for an entire month as opposed to a single week. The subject register was a complete remake of the outdated sheet they had. I heard some of the teachers comment on their dissatisfaction with the sheet. The plenty coursework mark sheet was made to accommodate marks for fifteen assignments. I had plans to make an excel version but it is still difficult to lay out the entire document on legal-sized paper.

    From lunchtime to the end of school, I was in Form 1 Leacock with Miss Gittens’ form class. She had invited me to lunch with the class. I had to carry a chair from one of the classrooms to theirs. Lunch was lovely. They had a gift exchange and I remembered getting the Christmas card the students signed and gave to me. I stayed back, helped Mr Bains pack up his Christmas tree to carry home, and sent the remainder of the cake to security by the road.

    I packed up my bag and went to wait for the bus shuttle. The pictures of the subject registers from Miss Gittens were too small to read and enter in my excel forms.

Link(s):

• Pictures and Videos of the Class Party. **
• Teachers’ Attendance Sheets. ** [File Confidential]
• Teachers’ Subject Registers.
• Temporary Mark Sheet (V3)– Plenty Coursework.

 

UPDATE.

** Monday 31 October 2022 **

During the weekend of the date above, a temporary mark sheet was created to record marks in coursework done by the Form 1 students. I had the feeling that I would not be allowed to use a mark book so this was my substitute. 

Link(s):

• Temporary Mark Sheet (V3) - Little Bit.
• Journal Entry: "St. George's College (Week 7) - Day #25".

Daryl Zion M. Ali

Teacher's Individual Class Log

 Date for Entry: (Friday 18^th November 2022)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 19th December 2022)

Dear Diary,

    The following divisions below will detail and discuss the events that took place for creating my "Teachers' Individual Class Log" form. You are welcome to keep a download of the document and use it if this may be useful to you.

Link(s):

• Teacher's Individual Class Log.

ENTRY 1.

** Friday 18^th November 2022 **

[St. George’s College (WEEK 9) – Day #39]

Today I woke at 4:30 again and I got ready. A while before lunchtime I was in the library typing out a teacher’s class log. I did not have my flash drives, so I had to do something new from scratch. Miss Phillips gave me one that Miss Patel made and I transformed it into a longer one that caters for twenty classes in a term. 

    I hope that Miss Phillips appreciates this and makes it easier for her to do her class logs. I did not finish this form until I got home. Suddenly I began to feel too sleepy. I went back to my desk in the administrative office and fell asleep for the rest of periods four and five.

ENTRY 2.

** Monday 21st November 2022 **

[St. George’s College (WEEK 10) – Day #40]

The morning sky was dark as night. I did not get to the UTT site until 7:15 while sheltering on the main road and having my pants lightly went from cars dashing water on me and the others. I did not make a run for it with the umbrella as many did. I knew the strength of the rain was not good to personally make it.

    I met Miss Phillips again this morning. I showed her the teacher’s log that I made. Her only issue was that she preferred the session boxes to be left to right instead of a vertical setting. She still took it. I made the change later that night to see what she might say the next day.

ENTRY 3.

** Tuesday 22nd November 2022 **

[St. George’s College (WEEK 10) – Day #41]

More work was done on the form. The idea had to be cancelled and an entirely new design had to be created. Not much progress was done afterwards, sadly.

ENTRY 4.

** Wednesday 23rd November 2022 **

[St. George’s College (WEEK 10) – Day #42]

    The school was closed early because of the heavy rain at lunchtime but the sun came out in full right after. I saw Miss Philips sitting with Miss Roberts in the lobby area and I handed her the teacher’s log with amendments. She seemed happy about it.

Daryl Zion M. Ali

Bus Shuttle Attendance Forms

Date for Entry: (Monday 31st October 2022)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 5th November 2022)

[St. George’s College (WEEK 7) – Day #25]

Dear Diary,

    Today was the first working day for St. George’s College at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) campus in Valsayn. The rain caused a lot of flooding that morning and the maxis were not there in the stand. Daddy and I walked back to the taxi stand in Curepe and we got a car. A lady told me in the car that she ran back to tell us that the maxis came but she took the car with me. Going down they spoke about Halloween and I remembered it was the last day of October.

    When I got to the gates of the UTT compound, the security wrote my name in their book. It was different information than in Barataria. I had to ask the guard for the time to transfer into the OJT attendance log. I wrote the time into my orange diary first before the OJT log as usual.

    Sitting at my desk in the administration office, the noise was the first thing to go through with teachers and others coming in and out of the heavy glass door. It was day six so I did not have classes as well as the rest of the school. I did not understand why we were asked to come out to the campus so quickly when it did not seem prepared for classes.

    Miss Roberts came into the office late to sign. We walked around the campus to find the second staffroom in Block K and later we went to the music room to see the layout. When we got there, people were still working in the room and they had placed some tables and chairs in the room. It took up space and we wondered how the steelpan instruments would fit in the space to the back. All of the tables and chairs were cramped up to the front and we didn’t know what to do with the rest of the room.

    Some long minutes after, the principal came into the room with another lady to check the music room. I soon found out without asking that the lady was the school’s supervisor. I had never met a school supervisor before but the conversation was nice. I walked Miss Roberts back to her desk and got my bags to go back to the administration office. She said she had a meeting and I asked to see her later for some help.

    I went and started to have lunch and started to work on a bus shuttle form. Miss Gittens had messaged me minutes going to five in the morning to help her make a list to check the students go on the bus. We had spoken about this earlier this morning before school started. As we spoke about it, the teachers’ subject register I had made over was coming to mind. I Miss Gittens that I could make a form for the entire month with large columns and they will have spaces for the five days of the week. I saw the smile come to her and she said she liked the idea.

    I got the laptop turned on and opened up the teachers’ subject register and used the Forms 4 to Upper 6 version. I was glad that it did not take long to do but I did not know how many students needed to be filled into the tables. It was no longer two tables for boys and girls but just a continuous table. I was able to get a list of the names from Miss Patel and Miss Sawh when they saw what I made for them.

    It was only the night after working hours, I had made two sets of lists. I was not sure which one they would have preferred to use. The first set was two documents that had a lot of rows in case there were more students to add in. The second set of two lists was concise and used less paper. There were two emails sent to the three teachers for both sets. Miss Gittens had liked them. For the two of us, the concise one might not have been so visually appealing.

    In the last thirty minutes before school finished, I got my way back to Block K to work on the melody for the college song. The ‘children’ in the staffroom were noisy as usual. Miss Roberts and I tried really hard to listen to the video with the children in the video singing the St. George’s College song. The second verse had a change in only one measure. I was glad that the review went by in that short space of time.

    I got a ride with Miss Libert up to Curepe and I got to create thirteen multiple-choice questions as we waited twelve minutes in traffic getting out of the UTT compound. Some more waiting on the main road to get there I shared with her the Temporary Mark Sheet that I had made for myself. She said that she would love to use it so I sent a PDF copy to her later after doing the two sets of forms for the Bus Shuttles. We also spoke about the time at St. George’s and Google classroom before getting out.

Link(s):

• Bus Shuttle Form (V1, Long) – Form 1 to 3. 
• Bus Shuttle Form (V1, Long) – Form 4 to Upper 6B.
• Bus Shuttle Form (V2, Concise) – Form 1 to 3.
• Bus Shuttle Form (V2, Concise) – Form 4 to Upper 6B.
• Temporary Mark Sheet. **

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:35 am – 2:33 pm)

Treble Clef's Staff Worksheet

 Date for Entry: (Tuesday 11th October 2022)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 24th October 2022)

[St. George’s College (WEEK 4) – Day #14-16]

DAY 14.

** Tuesday 11th October 2022 **

The school’s email told us that today was day one. I spent some time yesterday coming up with a worksheet for my Form One students to do in absence of our class. We also had a departmental meeting that started at 8:30 and then at 10:30 right after there was a staff meeting also on zoom.

    I did not get the link to the first meeting on time so I took the time to write up the email. I was not sure exactly what I would say in that first email as a ‘teacher’ but I did fine. Only later in the evening, I harsh disappointment myself when I did not ask the people to reply. It would have been the only way to count attendance. Still have to find out who has working emails and some were from parents.

    In the staff meeting, we had a short wait and then a prayer was said. Some events that occurred cannot be recorded here in the journal. We heard from some of the teachers present in school that the corridors were not very safe and some of them were leaking. I had a very weird feeling from one of the school’s five emails over the days about us having to be present in the staffroom and not being able to teach. Daddy’s response to it was true in a way.

    The meeting concluded at 1:40. At one o’clock, I was having my lunch at the dining table still wondering about everything and listening to the meeting. I fell flat on the couch afterwards. It was a lot to take in.

Link(s):

• Treble Clef’s Staff - Worksheet.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:46am – 3:46pm)

DAY 15.

** Wednesday 12th October 2022 **

Today I was sooooo very late to ‘work’. That extra hour on the bed felt good that I awoke from the last phone screaming at 7:30. I darted into the shower and got the computer some minutes after eight. This was probably the latest so far.

    I had music with Form One Mitchell for periods one and two. They got their emails and then Form One got theirs some minutes after twelve. The same issue with emails not working or could not be reached occurred. Now all the Form Ones had the worksheet; I hoped.

    That night I constructed the answer sheet because I did not want to wait for the morning and have the class waiting. I was glad the information was able to fit on one sheet of letter-sized paper. Since there were two classes for the day, I spent the entire evening writing the attendance forms and then marking the student present on the new register sheets that I made. (The link above applied to this section.)

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(8:02am – 3:00pm)

DAY 15.

** Thursday 13th October 2022 **

Today One Mitchell was the first to get the answers to review the worksheet. Some email replies were still coming in from two days ago and the other two classes. I’m gonna have to have a nice chat about that when the next scheduled time comes for them.

    More of the lesson plans continued. I was able to do four lessons for the second term this week. Hopefully, by the weekend I would get to do some more or maybe finish that term and be typing them up.

Link(s):

• Treble Clef’s Staff Worksheet – Answers.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:52am – 3:00pm)

Competitions & Events Form

 Date for Entry: (Monday 3 October 2022)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Sunday 8 October 2022)

[Week #3; Day #11]

Dear Diary,

    I came in early and Miss Roberts entered the music sometime after assembly. It was nice to see her after the time she was away from school. She seemed better than last Thursday when we spoke. When we spoke at her table there was a form that she wanted me to make for her. It was a form for students taking part in the San Fest Competition in the various categories they wanted to enter.

    The form took a double period (3rd & 4th) to create during her Upper Six Music class. It was not difficult at all to do. I selected legal-sized paper for the list and wrote out the information Miss Roberts wanted. The three girls were preparing for a presentation as part of their School Based Assessment (SBA). I also had some input in it while sitting at the back of the classroom to access a plug for the laptop charger.

    That morning I had a double period with Form One Mitchell. The students told me that the timetable had been changed and I was given a double period of music with them. I was glad because I now did not have to divide the lesson in half for tomorrow but teach the entire second lesson. It was better that way for me.

Link(s):

• Competitions & Events Form.

 

Daryl Zion M. Ali

(7:29am – 6:50pm)