A rolling thread where we are teachers

High school history.

Plasmon, doing the JET program and another ALT job in Japan convinced me to become a teacher.

It is very likely that come September I will be starting the path to teaching HS level students in MA. Pretty excited about this tbh.

yay Erica! is it an alt cert program? mine technically starts in september, too, a year-long university program. taking a couple classes this summer.

I probably make reference to this too much in other posts and in my writing in general, but I teach elementary school in the Toronto area. I've done either grade 6 or grade 7 for the past decade. I'm eight school days away from summer vacation. The public just loves us for the two months off.

x-post - :D It's actually pretty confusing and I need to call the state ed dept on Monday but I *think* that as long as I pass the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure, I can get a preliminary license. I'm just not clear on what that means exactly and whether or not it's good enough for the kinds of positions I'd be interested in.

i find all the certification stuff endlessly complicated, too. but yay, that rules!

:D

btw - It rules that you are also doing this and I echo what Max said above.

Is there any US equivalent to tes.co.uk - like, an actual site that respectable US teachers read and post at?

ilx?

what what, new teacher training in less than 2 weeks

me too! orientation in a few weeks. btw, don't think i've mentioned it here, one of my highschool classes next semester is US History + Popular Music.

:O hella jeal

English to foreign types. Favourite quote: "If I have the million pounds, I will buy big house in the cunt."

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:34 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

me too. favorite misspelling: "Mohammad was chosen to deliver a massage from Allah."

just found out i'm teaching mostly geometry, but one period of alg 2.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs216.snc4/39154_685807015335_25406876_38972997_4079718_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs116.ash2/39154_685807025315_25406876_38972998_699063_n.jpg

this is what my classroom looks like rite now, have very few ideas of how to pretty it up. thinking of doing a section called IMPORTANT MATH PPL and highlight contemporary ppl doin tite math 4 a living (nate silver, that lady who got on the futurama dvd, jaime escalante even tho he is rip'ing it up now ;_;). that should maybe get 10% of the walls.

do you have to leave the desks where they are?

some of these are a little silly, but:

http://www.mathteacherstore.com/middle/midlpost/5-8/mathpostA.htm

http://www.mathsoul.com/

have shown up in my room

FRACTALS

And pictures of that pointy green cauliflower that grows in spirals. Or maybe just a fresh head of it on your desk every week. I could look at that freak of nature all day.

remy - i can do whatever with the desks, i scattered them just to see how much spread i could get in terms of width b/c they were shoved on one side when i got in yesterday morning

laurel - i will so post pictures of geometrically interesting foods, 4 real

Also: Square watermelons.

okay, these are really cool. i wonder if you could print/enlarge them?

http://www.geekosystem.com/fruit-mri-pineapple-orange-banana/

a rolling thread where we are exhausted

a rolling thread were we are still on holiday

how is this going for you?

just started orientation yesterday. already tired.

(lol. it'll be better tmmrw when i can start carpooling half hour to work and not hour + half by public transportation)

Bison do Ken Keeler in yr maths dudes talk too!

starting next monday. hopefully I can get moved into my new flat before then.

first class this morning. think of me!

Good luck, LL!

I teach rotating terms of legal writing, business law, and contracts to paralegal students at a community college. I'm a lawyer by day, but love teaching so much more than I love lawyering, so once I get a little more experience under my belt, I'm going to see how I can maybe teach full time. First bizlaw class of the term is this Saturday. I'm pretty excited, but I had foot surgery so I have one foot in a big boot thing which is going to cramp my very mobile, pacing, animated teaching style.

i lived! i think it was among my best first-classes ever. i gave good examples and tied everything together by the end of class and led right up to their homework. i love teaching.

now i am eating a salad that smells a little old/off but i am eating it anyway because the only other food i have here is a package of ry-crisps and some stale graham crackers. (file under: sad contents of teacher's desk)

Awesome! High five!!!

er about the class, not about your sad lunch.

xposts to trayce

i'm doing spec ed math, so ken keeler will be a bit inappropriate for their current level understanding, but i am going to find a way to throw futurama in there (thinkin the wall street episode, the montage where they go down different streets, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, πth street...where does pi go on the number line, BOOYAAAAA)

Yess :D

dyao – sucks. i'm not able to move into my new place until (9/1), and i'm teaching full time beginning next week (8/30) and the movers are charging me nearly $800 to move 3 miles.

that sucks remy. I schlepped my fridge (not a big one but still reasonably large) across town yesterday, was not fun. I'm moving my flat piece by piece, lucky in that I have an office to serve as a intermediary stop. hopefully will get done by the weekend. your movers sound like highway robbers!

got teaching materials yesterday for a class that starts monday. still no word on teaching materials for my other class which starts wednesday. found out for that class, it's only going to be and this other guy who's the course coordinator. he's the dude who basically plagiarized teaching materials from the web for this same course last year without giving credit, who was always late in distributing course materials, completely changed the nature of the final exam and basically screwed over the students. looking forward to a fun semester working with this dude.

Just found out today that I'm teaching an 8th grade class of boys a lit semester themed around Survival that is including at the very least "Alive" and "Into Thin Air."

a nickel will get you a dime that lord of the flies is on the syllabus. yeah?

oh yes, most definitely

Good job LL! I'm always so nervous about first class back - it seems such a leap to go from 'not having taught for 2 months' to "I expect your unconditional loyalty and devotion starting RIGHT NOW - ps we are studyin' numbers" - like, I know I can do it, but it seems like a kind of magic that I always expect to be exposed in!

oh
my
GOD

i just tripped over some cords and fell flat on my belly in front of my speech class -- it was like slow-mo
as i did this, i squealed WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
did not get injured, unless you consider loss of cred an injury

sweet jesus

once I taught for a full hour without realizing my fly was open. :o

hole in the back of my pants on the day i wore my lucky elephant boxer shorts (in fifth grade class)

First assignments distributed this week.

Oh -- I'm an adjunct professor of English.

Ok so I'm finally home now. In my final piece of inspiration to my speech class, did I implore my (adult) students to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and continue if they fall down during their speeches?

You know I did. It's a corny teacher moment, but they seemed to like it. I don't have any native speakers in this class, so that makes it a little more fun. Ah well.

aw, I bet your students aren't even going to remember this accident a month from now.

from the advice of a colleague, created a separate facebook account for interacting w/ students with. think it might be a useful way to convey information about due dates, requirements, etc. & maybe an interesting alternative to e-mail.