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Hello! I need to make a serious decision please. I really want to become a Kindergarten teacher but always read horror stories about teachers almost always working 60+ hours per week. Unfortunately I have great caregiving responsibilities in my family and that would be impossible for me to do. However I was wondering if Kindergarten tea...See More
Hello! I need to make a serious decision please. I really want to become a Kindergarten teacher but always read horror stories about teachers almost always working 60+ hours per week. Unfortunately I have great caregiving responsibilities in my family and that would be impossible for me to do. However I was wondering if Kindergarten teachers work less hours? I mean TOTAL including grading, planning, parent/student meetings? Also, is it extremely hard to become ONLY A KINDER teacher because of competition? Like would I need to always teach other grades too? I am hoping to finish school to become a Kinder teacher and maybe substitute teach until I finally get a Kinder position. Do you think this is realistic? Thank you, I don't want to make a mistake pursuing this. I am in between this or just trying to work my way up in administrative type jobs as a career because I really can't work over 40 hrs a week with my family situation. I really want to do this but I'm also afraid that pursuing this may take away from my husband's ability to go back to school how much he would want to as well. Poor guy doesn't even have is High School as he came from Mexico, he's been working so so hard for us and I want to help him too. I'm thinking of waitressing weekends (I've done this many years and make good money in tips) and going to school part time but I'm not sure if I should just get some full time administrative entry job somewhere so he has more freedom for his school? We also don't have health insurance right now so we'd need to shell out lots for obama care...I feel very confused. Also with the economy right now I keep reading how hard it is for new teachers to find work.. I'm hoping subbing would help hold us off until I could get a Kindergarten classroom. As far as limited hours I can work.. Thing is when we have kids (we don't have any but are almost 30 so I'm trying to prepare) as far as hours devoted to caregiving it would be similar a single mom. My husband is wonderful but he has made it clear that he is very traditional and would always be willing to provide for us completely (most likely he would work 60-80 hrs a week) but it's clear he would leave almost everything else to me (all housework, child care, shopping etc etc). On top of that sometimes I need to help my parents as they off and on get very ill, and I am their only child. I know if I was working over 40 hrs a week as a mother I would go insane (I greatly respect and admire moms who do this but I am not that skilled). I LOVE young children and I'm hoping Kindergarten wouldn't be more than 40 hours full time or maybe I could even do 1/2 day? I'm sorry this is so long. It's just I'm SO torn as we agreed ABSOLUTELY NO student loans and have a very limited income. Do you think I should pursue this or just start in a clerical entry job somewhere and work my way up as much as possible in hope that it would be enough (maybe Executive Assistant or Senior Administrative Assistant in a University thing?). I'm just scared that that may become a dead end and then when we have kids it would be impossible for me to back to school, so I feel like I NEED to make a decision now or else.. I might sound entitled/ too picky but with our family situation I honestly can't have a career that I would need to work a lot of overtime even bringing it home. I'd also love being a Preschool teacher but I don't think it would be enough to live on. Help please from you wonderful teachers? Thank you so much....
Looking for some good templates to make homemade journals for writing in the mornings. I want something that would show growth in writing each 9 weeks and perhaps showing a rubric. Any suggestions?
This year we will be using the Journeys reading program. Anybody familiar with this program? Can you give me some good websites to help in the planning etc.
by Michelle in MI
May 20, 2016
Years ago, you used to see 30 or 40 posts daily on this K chatboard. Now you'd be lucky to see ten in a month. I wonder what happened?
HI. Our County is revising our elementary report cards. Does anyone have a rating scale that they love? We currently use PINT (proficient, in process, needs development, and to be taught). I saw the proposed scale which includes D,S,M, P (distinguished, strong, marginal, progressive). I have been told this won't change but when I look up the defini...See MoreHI. Our County is revising our elementary report cards. Does anyone have a rating scale that they love? We currently use PINT (proficient, in process, needs development, and to be taught). I saw the proposed scale which includes D,S,M, P (distinguished, strong, marginal, progressive). I have been told this won't change but when I look up the definitions in the dictionary, marginal is NOT better than progressing. Can anyone share what they use in their county ?
Hi. Our County is revising our elementary report cards. Does anyone have a rating scale that they love? We currently use PINT (proficient, in process, needs development, and to be taught). I saw the proposed scale which includes D,S,M, P (distinguished, strong, marginal, progressive). I have been told this won't change but when I look up the defini...See MoreHi. Our County is revising our elementary report cards. Does anyone have a rating scale that they love? We currently use PINT (proficient, in process, needs development, and to be taught). I saw the proposed scale which includes D,S,M, P (distinguished, strong, marginal, progressive). I have been told this won't change but when I look up the definitions in the dictionary, marginal is NOT better than progressing. Can anyone share what they use in their county?
Are any of you familiar with the NWEA computerized test? What are some sites to practice test questions? Thanks so much!
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