And I'm back
I will never be ok going back to school on the very first day. I will always wish I was still laying in bed staring at the ceiling, and quite frankly, bored out of my mind. I spend the days of the summer trying to figure out how I'm going to spend my days. Yet when school is back in session, I hate that my boredom has been taken away from me.Today was a professional development day. As a teacher, we are required to continue our learning throughout my entire career. Today we discussed a certain reading "program" called balanced literacy. From my point of veiw, it's not really a program. It's more like common sense teaching. You start off modeling the skills you want your students to know, then you slowly work yourself out of the picture until the kids are doing it on their own. Sounds like a no-brainer right? Unfortunately it must not be, seeing as how we had to do an entire day of training on how to incorporate balanced literacy into our reading classes.
Every teacher at my school teaches a reading class, even the P.E. teacher.
I had many trainings on balanced literacy when I was in college, hell I had an entire class on it. I passed it too. So today was like a refresher, which is fine because I'd much rather get a refresher now than when I have 17 6th grade faces looking at me. I cave under pressure.
There was of course more grief at the old school today, seeing as how the only thing that teachers do better than stealing is gossiping. However, I will not post it. While I fully admit that the gossip and grief that I go through is VERY normal and adds to the frustrations of my job, I also know that if I were the one contributing to somebody else's grief I don't think I'd want to read about it on the internet. I am still in my original classroom, and that's what matters. I can deal with the rest of the grief.
I asked my instructional coach today how I could improve upon my job. I said to her that I need the first thing that comes to mind when she think of me. She says I need to get off my ass. Seriously, that was what came out of her mouth. Haha, guess that means I really do spend too much of my time at my desk.
And here I thought nobody noticed what I did at the school.
So my goal for the beginning of the school year will be to stay off my "ass" as much as possible when there are students in my classroom. Hmm, does that mean I should start wearing more comfy shoes?
posted by lobo5747 @ 7:00 PM
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Hi K, thanks for comment at my place and thanks especially for linking to me! I really appreciate it.
My sister-in-law will have her first official day as a school teacher next week. She graduated from college in May and will be teaching High School Special Education. The poor girl is scared to death, and I can't honestly say that I blame her. Kids these days....
It takes a special kind of person to be a teacher. The thought alone, scares me to death. I found this really interesting article about how teachers do not get paid properly. I will see if I can find it, and if I do, I will drag it back here for you. I think you would enjoy it. If not, I will be back to visit again soon. Good luck with the beginning of the new school year!
I found it! Please note this is a satirical rant ;)
I'm so tired of Those High Paid Teachers!
(A Satirical Rant)
I, for one, am sick and tired of those high paid teachers. Their hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year!
It's time we put things in perspective, and pay them for what they do, baby-sit! We can get that for less than minimum wage. That's right? I would give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked, not any silly planning time. That would be $15.00 a day. Each parent should pay $15.00 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.
Now, how many do they teach in a day?... maybe 25. Then that's 15 x 25 = $375.00 a day.
But remember they only work 180 days a year! I'm not going to pay them for any vacations. Let's see? that's 375 x 180 = $67,500.00. (Hold on, my calculator must need batteries!)
What about those special teachers or the ones with Masters Degrees?
Well, we could pay them minimum wage just to be fair. Let's round it off to $6.00 an hour. That would be $6.00 times five hours times 25 children times 180 days = $135,000.00 per year.
Wait a minute. There is something wrong here!!!!
There sure is, huh??????!!!!
I love it! I wish we got paid that much!
I'm so glad I'm not teaching public school anymore. Gladder when I read your blog. I like your blog, but the crap teachers put up with from admin, etc. is just absurd.
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