I have volunteered to be an admin intern for our JH summer school. I am LOVING it! The summer school principal is one of the AP's at the school and he's had a couple of interns before and he went through this same type of program, so he's very familiar with the 18 month program.
I met with the "team" last Saturday and the principal informed me that he would be out on Tuesday, a staff development day, due to jury duty. He asked me if I could do the staff development for him! Which included a PowerPoint presentation! I hope I didn't look as "uh-oh!" as I felt, but I said "sure". He gave me the materials on Monday afternoon. I wish I had the book he was using as a reference when I was doing my AR project on school climate. I spent hours doing the student survey and they had almost the same thing in the back of the book! ARG!!! Oh well, it's a dead issue anyways.
Long story short. I felt pretty comfortable in front of the staff of 20 teachers. I kind of winged the PowerPoint as I wasn't going to just read the slides to them and the comment from the AP that was asked to help me if I needed it was "You did great! Just like you had read the book!" and said I just needed to speak louder. By that night, I was being introduced by the teachers to the students as "Asst. Principal".
So far my duties have included, getting students their schedules - which includes getting about half of them straightened out with the councilor, breakfast duty, lunch duty, and bus/car rider duty. I've been the go to person anytime the principal has had to step out (or been out doing interviews with the rest of the admin staff). And I've also had to deal with a student that just didn't want to cooperate with the teacher, observed the principal handle a couple of irate parents and cafeteria workers. I'm learning so much. I know I haven't experienced the whole job of AP yet, but I am confident I can do the job.
