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by Teachers.Net Gazette
Jul 4, 2013
As you contemplate your classroom set-up for the coming school year, let these photo tours of classrooms from all over the US provide ideas for making your classroom a center of learning! (click below or paste in gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/teachers-net-community/classroom-arrangement)
by Dan Leopold
Jul 23, 2013
lease contact me if ou are interested in making a difference today in making a better working environment when you enter the field.
Dan
I am a newly preliminary Credentialed Teacher in CA. Not yet cleared, because it is a TOUGH market right now to obtain a fulltime job. I just landed one - finally! But will explain later.
I don't know if it's the same situation in other states. But I really feel like Universities are doing a disservice to these would-be teachers by contin...See MoreI am a newly preliminary Credentialed Teacher in CA. Not yet cleared, because it is a TOUGH market right now to obtain a fulltime job. I just landed one - finally! But will explain later.
I don't know if it's the same situation in other states. But I really feel like Universities are doing a disservice to these would-be teachers by continuing to enroll them.
This post is warning to current & future credential students - KNOW THAT the average number of applicants per one position is 500-800! That is not a typo!
There are fully-credentialed teachers who have subbed for 8-10 years and still have not secured a full-time position, nor even tenured(even if they taught full-time) because they keep on getting pink-slipped & rehired to keep salary down.
And if you think your application will be looked over - you are mistakened. You have to KNOW someone to even get considered for an interview. Nowadays, everyone has to know someone. And I'm not saying know a teacher in of a school. I'm talking highly connected...with Administration.
The last interview I was in, everyone knew or was related to someone at the Principal level and up. There were 900 applicants vying for 4 positions. It was a miracle that many positions were even opened in ONE district.
I'm saying this not meaning to discourage (even though it is discouragingly true!), is because i don't want to see any more Americans going into school debt for a career that is very bleak, and will not get any better anytime soon. Not for at least 10 more years - I predict longer.
There will be thousands more unemployed teachers in CA still coming out in the next few years. I say try other states or pick a new career!
by is teaching any better?
Aug 12, 2013
I am getting certified as a career changer with a BA. I also have a great deal of teaching experience. (I'll be Spanish and I've taught English abroad for 2 years; I've tutored, been an aide, and taught classes as a volunteer as well.)
I am exhausted by my education classes! I'm tired of the insane horror stories:
Since I'm over ...See MoreI am getting certified as a career changer with a BA. I also have a great deal of teaching experience. (I'll be Spanish and I've taught English abroad for 2 years; I've tutored, been an aide, and taught classes as a volunteer as well.)
I am exhausted by my education classes! I'm tired of the insane horror stories:
Since I'm over 30 and have a masters, I'm screwed. My MA makes me too expensive to hire, and many principals and even districts prefer to hire 22 year olds.
Student behavior includes peeing out the window, hitting teachers, etc. FYI: I DID have a job where that kind of behavior was the norm (in Mexico). The principal went to jail for endangering minors and employees, failure to report crimes, and creating a hostile work environment.
You need to learn to plan with no textbooks because textbooks are only for "them rich snotty schools".. MANY schools have none. Umm.. I am an aide in a 100% poverty school and they do.
You'll have to meet all the state standards..right :). We have "foreign and native languages" in one set of standards, so mine include "read and interpret literature in the target language..". The standards contain NO content or statements of what activities might meet them. (I'm Spanish so the common core does not apply to us..for now anyway.)
You'll be working 100 hours a week. Um..not if you have learned what you should be learning IN THESE CLASSES and have an idea of how to plan. Unless of course you do get a job with no textbooks or access to photocopies, but I continue to maintain that's not the norm.
And then there are the insults:
When describing my worst teacher ever I described a college class where the professor left half of the syllabus up to us to plan--we were freshmen; great idea :)-- and we never even had class. Now I admit it WAS my responsibility to report him to the college dean and I did not, but I hear from students:
You aren't flexible
YOU needed to learn to tolerate ambiguity
It sounds like you needed to have been people skills to work with your peers
(Note: We split into 2 groups and each group was led by a peer. Requests for information were met with snotty refusals.)
You spoiled brat!!
You MUST have a textbook? Seriously?? And what happens if schools aren't falling down on their knees begging YOU to work with them?
You don't think discovery learning works? OH..you mean YOU aren't willing to spend the time planning it or lose the structure in your classroom. (Well.. yeah I DO mean that, but that's not bad.)
You'd complain if your ST placement had you teach out of your area in secondary?? HA HA. Good luck with that!
What do you mean you "aren't willing" to work 100 hours a week?
What do you mean you'd complain if you had to change diapers? We mainstream in this state..the law is the law.
Most of what we learn in classes is useless or flat out WRONG.
Discovery learning causes a decrease in student achievement, not an increase.
We can't teach based on a multiple intelligences theory because:
We have no proof Gardner's intelligences are correctly describing people
How do we know who is really more intelligent in what area when secondary teachers see 100 plus kids a day? You are lucky to know everyone's name!
Do we teach students to use their strong intelligences more or build up their weaker one?
How does this method work with classes of 20 plus kids with difference intelligence profiles?
I'm am wondering if I'll feel more positive when I'm far away from this crap and in my own classroom--or does the crap of education programs continue into "the real world"? For example: I'm not willing to write weekly reports telling my principal how I used the multiple intelligences theory this week, being forced to use a foreign language storytelling method (TPRS) exclusively or having students throw chairs out the window and not be suspended.
Hi guys,
starting my education program this fall, I definitely want to teach, having some reservations though. i.e., job market after graduation, cost of education etc. any input?
I just got kicked out of student teaching. It was super embarassing. I busted my ass for 2 months and became really good friends with the cooperating teacher. BAD MISTAKE. I thought she was the only saving grace for me at the time. But little did i know she was going behind my back and telling my bitch supervisor absolutely everything i ever told h...See MoreI just got kicked out of student teaching. It was super embarassing. I busted my ass for 2 months and became really good friends with the cooperating teacher. BAD MISTAKE. I thought she was the only saving grace for me at the time. But little did i know she was going behind my back and telling my bitch supervisor absolutely everything i ever told her. My supervisor was the most evil, vindictive, mean, hateful, arrogant, egotistical person i had ever met. She hated me from day 1. She treated me like a child. I am 33 years old and was teaching high school biology. I really enjoyed the kids just all the other B.S. that you had to put up with in high school. You try to be nice to other teachers and they would talk behind your back and say there was something wrong with you. If you ever start student teaching, don't trust anyone. Remember every day is a job interview. The teachers there aren't there to be your friend but judge you and try to get you to open up to them so they can judge you and snitch on you. Its a shame. i know i would have been an awesome teacher. The kids loved me and my unique personality. I didnt act like a normal teacher, i was compulsive and sometimes said things that i didn't think about things before i said them sometimes and some of the teachers thought i was on drugs because of that. But the students loved my honesty and respected me for it. My supervisor wrote me up twice for turning in lesson plans late. Most of the supervisors at the school did not even collect the lesson plans but mine wanted them every week. the issue was that my cooperating teacher didn't have to have hers in until friday and at first i didn't want to rock the boat and ask her for her lesson plans earlier quite yet so it gave me literally hours to turn in the lesson plans on friday. On the second write up they put me in front of the firing squad in front of the dean. I told her all of the things that happened to me and she didn't care. she stuck up for her own. The supervisor (her friend). F Youngstown state university. they are ignorant and do not respect you what so ever. DO NOT STUDENT TEACH THROUGH THERE.
Hi all, I am a current teacher taking some ELL classes for the next certification I am going for. Hope you would all would not mind answering some questions. I will be adding some more questions or post some questions as time goes. Thanks so much! -Explain the use of authentic assessments with CLD and other students. What sorts of information do su...See MoreHi all, I am a current teacher taking some ELL classes for the next certification I am going for. Hope you would all would not mind answering some questions. I will be adding some more questions or post some questions as time goes. Thanks so much! -Explain the use of authentic assessments with CLD and other students. What sorts of information do such assessments gather that traditional assessments do not? -What do you think is the most significant implications of increased classroom diversity in nontraditional receiving communities. What are at least two implications of these increases for teachers’ classroom assessment practices? -What factors that might account for the number of CLD students who receive much of their classroom instruction and assessments from classroom aides and bilingual paraprofessionals. Discuss in detail possible solutions to this dilemma of classroom practice. -What is the role that prior socialization in a particular culture plays in developing the lens through which a teacher views the abilities, behaviors, and performance of a CLD student. Why is it critical for teachers of CLD students to recognize, understand, and monitor this lens? Why should teachers want to know about the origins of the lens? -why adaptation or integration is a superior goal of schooling and a more appropriate outcome of the acculturation process. What factors may have prompted the original goal of assimilation? Is there an American culture? -why do teachers benefit from assessing each dimension of CLD students’ biography—sociocultural, cognitive, academic, and linguistic—before instruction -what accommodations do teachers make to help ELL adjust? -What is the hardest part of learning English in school or at home? -What knowledge of federal and state standards. Specifically in NH?
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