A high school teacher who is sick of being told how to teach and the way teachers are portrayed in the media. Teaching with ADD
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Students recognize the difference between a teacher who simply teaches them and a teacher who invests in them...
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“Kids can’t learn from teachers they don’t like”
1) Simply not true. I learned plenty from teachers I didn’t care for.
2) They’re going to have to interact and work with people they don’t like their entire life. What a terrible message to communicate
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Teachers - I’d do EXACTLY what this teacher did (he did ring the emergency button) and recommend you do the same. It is not worth getting harmed when students choose to fight.
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All I know is that “2016-2026: WTF Was That” is going to be the most popular course in college.
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You have parents who won’t even update their phone number in the school cause they are tired of the school calling them when their child misbehaves and stops bringing and picking them up to avoid seeing teachers & you think parents have nothing to do with their childs behavior.
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If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student.
The students have changed.
Teaching has changed.
You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.
I'm increasingly concerned that I'm repeatedly being assigned students who require intensive levels of support. I'm committed to helping these students succeed, but I also have a responsibility to the other students in my classroom and to my own professional sustainability.
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I have a project for all the compassionate folks who oppose strict school rule enforcement: rent out a large unused office building, take in the most recalcitrant rule breakers, and lavish them with your magic until they’re able to play well with others.
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You know who LOVES suspensions and expulsions?
All the kid who want to learn but can’t because one kid is acting a fool
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Parents: when it comes to issuing punishment for your child’s misbehavior, schools have about five different options:
1. Warning/conference
2. Detention
3. ISS or maybe Saturday school
4. Out of school suspension
5. Write a paper, research something, etc.
Most of those consequences depend on the parent. Detention needs you to pick up the child. OSS needs the child to be home. ISS barely works. And parents fight us on EVERY one of these.
HOWEVER, parents have hundreds of options for consequences and punishment. I could write a book on how to give a child a non-corporal punishment at home that works. Yet, PARENTS are NOT interested in punishing their children anymore. I think some are actually afraid of their children.
So we are left with uncontrollable students and parents who REFUSE to do anything at home to stop the behaviors. And it’s a sorry dynamic right now.
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There's nothing more heartfelt than the new ass. sup. of curriculum reminiscing about their time in the classroom from the late '90s. "Back when I was a teacher, students would run to my class because they knew I would engage them in the learning process."
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If the response to a student throwing a chair is to ask whether the teacher made the lesson engaging enough, I'd like to know how boring a faculty meeting has to get before the same logic applies.
This all day long. And twice on Sunday!!
Millions and millions of dollars are spent on professional development in schools, much of it an utter waste of time. Useless icebreakers, infantilizing activities for trained professionals, and endless PowerPoint presentations that offer little value.
I’m still waiting for a professional development session that actually develops me professionally.
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If a student can derail a lesson in thirty seconds, but removing him requires twenty minutes of paperwork, a parent phone call, and a meeting to discuss what the teacher could have done differently, you’ve made tolerating him the sensible career choice.