For teachers

I said earlier, I think this may the best high school on the planet.  So why do I say that?  There|'s  the campus, 65 acres with lots of woods and plantings, 19th century stone buildings, a faculty lounge that's an elegant Victorian parlor where we're served coffee and tea each schoolday during a 20 minute all school break at 9:40.  Each classroom equipped with a sound and projection system that you plug your laptop into, two multimedia rooms which are like screening rooms, which, like the library and computer labs, a teacher can sign up for online. Good food, including a salad bar, served efficiently in the cafeteria, free for teachers. 

The students are the top one half of one percent in Turkey and they love the school.  In curriculum, there's a lot of collaboration with impressive colleagues, but also a lot of freedom. 

I teach 4 classes, 3 different preps, each meets 5 periods (40 minutes) a week. The schedule changes everyday, which I think I'll like, with the classes meeting at different times each day, one of which is a double period.  For me this results in a schedule like this:  3 classes on Monday and Thursday; 6 on Tuesday and 4 on Wednesday and Friday.   On Monday and Wednesday, I have no class after 12:10.  Three days a week I start at 8:10 with a double period, and on Thursday my first class is at 10:00.  Four days a week I'm done at 2:30.  Now some of this is luck of the draw.  I have one period of lunch duty a week.  Those who live on campus do an hour of study hall for residential students once every 3 weeks. 

One downside:  We don't have our own classrooms.  I teach in 5 different ones, but only twice a week do I switch rooms between back to back classes and all my classes are in the same building (three different floors,though). I share an office with 3 other people; the department chair is in the inner office and I share the outer one with Maura Kelly (pronunciation confusion abounds), the assistant chair, and Ambrose Lovely.   We've got a table and a fridge and sink.  My desk faces a large window with a wooded hillside view.