Re: showers after practice for student teacher

I would say this put an end to your morning laps, Jennifer.
On 7/14/09, Jennifer wrote:
> While I was student teaching a few years ago, I used the school
> pool to swim laps in the mornings. A few teachers and a lot of
> students on athletic teams would work out in the mornings too.
>
> It was a large high school and I may have encountered a student or
> two in the community shower who were in the class I student taught,
> but that was never an issue. I was only 20 years old at the time,
> and relatively young looking, and it was just generally assumed
> that I was a student. There were some fairly strict rules enforced
> by the coaches concerning leaving your basket out, disposing of
> towels, etc.
>
> One morning I left my basket out and didn't put my towel in the
> correct laundry bag--both apparently no, no's! This was at a high
> school in Arkansas where corporal punishment is both allowed and
> used frequently. One of the coaches watching from her office came
> out and informed me I had earned three swats with the paddle.
>
> It didn't immediately occur to me that as a student teacher I had
> some senority over generic students that would have immunized me
> from typical discipline. To make a long story short, I did receive
> a paddling, and have never since broken any locker room rules!
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> On 7/14/09, anonymous wrote:
>> Yea I had a very similar situation when it came to showers during
>> my student teaching. Many of the teachers would meet at the
>> school very early in the morning to play pickup basketball before
>> the students arrived. While student teaching, I was
> approached
>> by many of the teachers and asked to play. The principals would
>> play, and I thought it would be a great way to meet people and
>> make the appropriate connections that could help me later on. I
>> would get to the school at 6am and the teachers would play until
>> 7am.
>>
>> I never thought about the shower situation until it was actually
>> time to shower, and I was very uncomfortable with it. I don't
>> mind showering in a large shower with other teachers, but we were
>> in the student locker room which was not locked, and I realized
>> that some of the students would walk in before class started to
>> put things away, or to shower themselves after working out in the
>> morning. In one instance I just finished showering and getting
>> dressed when a student I actually had in class walked in to
>> shower. If that student were to have walked in 5 minutes
>> earlier, it would have been a very awkward and in my opinion a
>> very strange situation.
>>
>> Due to the fact that the teachers working there had jobs and
>> didn't really fear anything, they were fine with this. I
> called
>> my advisor and I decided to stop playing basketball in the
>> morning because of how innappropriate I felt the situation was.
>> As a student teacher, you need to make sure you cover all of
>> your bases. Many of the teachers you are working with might not
>> think the way you do because they may already be established.
>> But you are still unemployed and you don't want there to be any
>> chance of a misunderstanding when it comes to one of your
>> students. I also think it is just strange for teachers and
>> students to be using the same shower facilities...especially at
>> the same time
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/01/09, Michele wrote:
>>> I can't figure out why they won't build some facilites with
>>> privacy in mind. I teach at a big suburban high school in
>>> Texas where they recently spent millions of dollars on
>>> rennovations. However, the new girls' locker room has one
>>> giant gang shower. I coach volleyball and track and the
>>> athletes seem to have no problem with using it, but many
>>> students in PE seem uncomfortable with the lack of privacy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/23/09, Lauren wrote:
>>>> Hi--
>>>>
>>>> I am student teaching PE at a Texas high school this
>>>> summer and one of my assignments is to supervise "open
>>>> gym" for basketball games. My supervisor has encouraged
>>>> me to join in the games, which is fine with me as a former
>>>> basketball player.
>>>>
>>>> The only problem is, I get extremely hot and sweaty by the
>>>> time the afternoon is over and have an evening class right
>>>> after that to attend. There is no locker room for the
>>>> teachers/coaches and my supervisor has said feel free to
>>>> uses the student facility which is a large community
>>>> shower and locker room.
>>>>
>>>> I am 19 and no one seems to care or notice as at the end
>>>> of the session there are usually 10 to 25 students
>>>> showering and changing. I would rather not got to class
>>>> soaked in sweat, but am not sure what the most appropriate
>>>> way to handle this may be. BTW, my supervisor is the
>>>> assistant basketbal coach and in her late 20's and also
>>>> uses the student shower. Doesn't seem to be a
>>>> problem . . .