Various weekend notes

[jenett]

Friday: spent all day out at the middle school doing end of year festivities.

Saturday: proctored SATs in the morning (you can tell this happens, because I read about four books that day. Speaking of which, am cross-posting my book blog posts (a new and exciting thing) to Dreamwidth, but not to LJ, just to see what that's like. You can read them or RSS feed them or whatever your pleasure is at http://gleewood.org/reading .

Sunday: Pagan Pride meeting in the morning, cancelled gaming after that (half of us were unable to make it.) Upon seeing Elise's post yesterday, promptly emailed her and said "Am around if I can be helpful" and got a call from her. Picked her up from the arts fair she'd gone to, took her food shopping, and had excellent conversation over Lund's sushi once I got her home.

The end result is that my house is still Not Sufficiently Clean. (Which is what happens when I put it off all weekend twice in a row), but I made a little progress. This week promises to be complicated.

Today: Title meeting. (Argh) followed by makeup classes at Magus for the herb stuff, and buying stuff for ritual on Saturday.
Tomorrow: Day of meetings and interviews (for the new minion).
Wednesday: More interviews.
Thursday: over at the Middle School for three meetings. Must finish Title docs before that.
Friday: Day to catch up on everything.
Saturday: Our Midsummer ritual. (Fortunately, does not require much planning, just buying of stuff at Magus tonight.)
Sunday: Fall over, plzkthnx.

(Next week, I am focusing on archives stuff, and will be in at work Monday-Wednesday, and thereafter ensconced in 4th Street stuff.)

Comments

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

What's the test proctoring gig like? It sounds like a relatively easy way to make a little extra money.

[jenett]

It is - though it's usually preference given to people who work in whatever school is the test site. I've been doing it for .. 6 years now?

There are three basic levels:
assistant proctor (you help someone else out, and thus get less pay, but it requires less skill and ability to negotiate complicated testing requirements.) I think the pay right now is around $75 for the day.

associate proctor: you're responsible for your own room. Pay right now is right around $100 for a regular time room, and $150 for an extended time room (which is usually what I do)

And then there's the test supervisor (which our head of college counselling does.)

I usually proctor the extended time for two reasons:

a) it's more money (and not a lot more time: the regular time SAT usually ends around 12:30 or 1pm, and the extended finishes around 1:45 or 2.)

b) I really like the smaller rooms - I usually have between 1 and 5 kids, and it's so much *simpler* when that happens.

The downside, as has happened in both my last two tests, is that you may end up with people on different testing schedules.

This month, I had two people with extended time on all sections, and one who had it only on the math sections. Last month, I had two extended time on all sections, one with extended time on verbal, and one with extended time on all sections *and* extended and extra breaks.

That gets complicated, because even with a timer for each set of timing, you also have to give them a 5 minute warning before each section ends, track all the timing on the board somehow, and make sure everyone gets the correct set of directions.

Technically, one is not supposed to do anything other than watch like an eagle over the test takers. Realistically, I know only one human who seems capable of doing that for 5-6 hours at a time (and it's not our site administrator!) The rest of us bring light reading that we will not be totally engrossed in, and walk around the room and look up regularly. (Another reason I like the small rooms: it's much much harder to cheat.)

[maribou]

have added your book blog to my 'fav book blogs' folder:)

[jenett]

*grin*

I'm trying it out, but so far, the "start a draft post on Monday, add to it until Sunday's books go in, post it." seems to work well for me.

There will be actual reviewy stuff, but mostly for Pagan-relevant books. Otherwise, it'll be quick little comments.

[selkie-b.livejournal.com]

We are "on" for Wed eve, btw! :) Call or email for details?