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I HATE education classes..

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 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.

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pixie to "horror stories" Re #7, Your statement that a teacher cannot be fired for no reason may be technically correct, but if a principal wants you out he or she will come up with a reason. Administrators on the Administrator chatboard have flat out admitted this. Re #9, Of course no principal would openly state a hiring preference for younger teachers, but how can you be...See More

Feb 20, 2014

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Fun with education classes :).. The #1 thing you hear over..and over and OVER.. is that we want to teach students to think for themselves and not accept us teachers as "the source of knowledge". Yet if WE question the religious dogma they teach us it does NOT go over well :). Just try asking why you lost points because that objective that you called "higher order" really isn't. Y...See More

Aug 14, 2013

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Pil Nice rant.

On 8/12/13, is teaching any better? wrote: > 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 ...See MoreNice rant.

On 8/12/13, is teaching any better? wrote: > 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 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.

Aug 19, 2013

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Teacher Your post in incomprehensible. F -please see me.

Aug 19, 2013

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