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Can I still take the text to get my certificate? I've been subbing for 2 years but feel more ready to become a teacher at this point
by Rick Blackwell
May 16, 2010
I am interested in receiving information from student teachers who are also college athletes.
Can you student teach when you are in season?
If s, what are the rules when you have to miss a partial day or day opf school due to travel to a contest?
In oklahoma what college year do you start student teaching? How do you register to be an Oklahoma student teacher?What things do you need to have done before registering to student teach?Do you know of a good website that talks about how to be a student teacher in Oklahoma
how ho i start a cover letter
how do i write one out please help
by How to Survive Student Teaching
Jun 30, 2010
My mentor teacher just retired. Seeing her at her retirement reminded me how much I owe her for teaching me so much. So here are a few tips for making the most out of your student teaching experience.
by anyone else dealing with this?
Jul 10, 2010
This is a rant.. I'm not looking for advice. But I am wondering if anyone will admit to agreeing with me, because only one of my classmates gets where I'm coming from..
I'm having a hard time with my classes because they are CONSTANT insane horror stories-- and no one is willing to admit that: A) some stories people tell in class might not...See MoreThis is a rant.. I'm not looking for advice. But I am wondering if anyone will admit to agreeing with me, because only one of my classmates gets where I'm coming from..
I'm having a hard time with my classes because they are CONSTANT insane horror stories-- and no one is willing to admit that: A) some stories people tell in class might not be true at all and/or we might not have the full picture
B) some problems could be solved if we-- as students now and educators later-- politely but firmly explain "that's unacceptable" and ask that the problem be resolved
C) Some problems are so severe teachers in that situation need legal help (assuming they can't just quit, which I get apllies to 99.7 percent of us).
If we ever say these things in response to the horror storiess, everyone calls us naive and "living in a fanasty world".
Cases: I) Graduate students transferring in classes: I admit I to have dealt with the issues of credits transfer and it's absolutely infurating! I have a masters in English but only one semester of freshman English-- because I went to a Christian college and we did one English and one religion in our first year. "You'll need freshman English..". But not only do I have the my MA, it is from the same school I'm in now-- so I'd in taking the class from someone I've been in classes with! (They haven't graduated yet; I did.) I also have several examples of such nonsense that happened to me directly; this problem very real!
BUT students just enroll in the freshman English, the biology 121 they APEd out of in high school and "don't have"--even if they will be biology teachers-- the intermediate Spanish the native speaker never had, etc. and whine. Did you file an appeal or request help from a dean?
"Don't be so naive.."
These are state rules; the university can't intervene.
How could you even do that?
But my mom is a graduate dean-- although not at our school-- and her job is to resolve issues like this.
II) The "it happened to my cousin's husband's best friend''s sister" stories: She got fired for being gay; the principal told her "I have the right not to state why". She has a sign in her office that says "God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" and refused to help her when students called her a dyke.
She turned in daily lesson plans, but they never satisified the principal; she asked and asked for feedback but was told "That's not my job"; then she got fired.
She had kids pee out the window in class.
She was removed from student teaching and never got any statement of why.
A kid claimed she hit him and that's it-- she will never teach anywhere again.
My favorite :): In her state to be an adminstrator you need to take the Praxis, but you can't get your scores. She interviewed and interviewed, but never got called back.. she thinks it's because she failed the test, but she can't have her score.
Anyone suggesting whoever these things happened to-- asuming it's true-- get legal help or saying that "That sounds fishy" is blown off as hopelessly naive. Someone even told me point blank: It's not illegal for any principal to fire an untenured teacher and not give a reason; you are crazy if you think having a lawyer would help if you were fired unfairly!
By the way, few stories like this happened to "me" or "my husband".. most people admit they got the story 4th hand.
III) "Welcome to teaching" (From a faculty member): In many first jobs you have no access to textbooks or content based curricula, so you have to prove you can create complete subject syllabi with no help other than the internet.
80% of the kids in our district have IEPS
The superintendent goes into classrooms randomly and writes up any teacher not using group work at that time (To be fair, this was from a faculty member who said that was a problem since we need to use a variety of methods.)
You will never, ever have any weekend days or holidays where you don't work for at least 9 hours for the rest of your life.
If a student who is so cognatively impaired he soils himself is in your class, you have to deal with him/her including changing diapers.. and NO teacher has any guarentee you won't get students like that, even if your certfification is for gifted education or you are teaching nothing but physics and calculus.
Something here doesn't sound right? Don't be so naive!
You'd complain if a severely retarded student was placed in your class and you didn't have support? HUH? That's a joke, right?
Best of all, education professors and many students are in fact hopelessly naive.
"Whole language" is based on the theory that if you just let kids read/write about whatever interests them in "developmentally apprioprate" ways most kids will learn to read very effectively; those who don't are usually learning disabled.
In my area (foreign language) there is a whole theory based on this idea: Talk to kids in the target language and they'll absorb it; they'll talk back when they are ready. Don't worrry about "output"-- what students say or write in the language- - or the lame idea that you need to teach x number of grammar points by y time frame. Just give students input in the language and they'll get so fluent so fast you'll be amazed!
"Discovery learning" is basded on the idea that if you just give studens interesting problems to work on, they will discover not only what they need to learn content wise but how to get along with peers-- all while developing a passion for learning.
Does anyone else agree that what I'm describing sounds like their program-- and that it's annoying to have to sit through enhdless classes full of this nonsense?
by abc123erin
Jul 16, 2010
Was browsing one of the other chatboards on teachers.net and a teacher recommended the following website from the Pennsylvania Dept of Education. There are some awesome videos (all grade levels/subjects) presented!
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erin
Click below for the articles. They include: "25 ways to Obtain Children's Attention in a School Setting;" "Elementary Classroom Rules and Management;" "Effective Praise;" "Educator's Guild to Enhancing Children Life Skills;" "The Essential Skill of Self-Control;" and "Ten Keys to Educator's Survival."
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