01-22-2018, 04:17 PM
Quote:1. I doubt you know your material unless the curriculum has been dumbed down in your area to the point of anyone with an IQ above room temperature being able to obtain a passing grade. Where do you sub--Detoilet?
I may not have kept up on the novel that kids in an English class are reading, but that matters little. The basics are what every college student needs to know anyway. If you can do integration you know everything that precedes it in math. Science? I do keep up. Civics? I am smart enough to avoid discussing partisan politics.
Quote:2. Showing up early doesn't mean very much.
Yes it does -- for understanding the instructions from the regular teacher that I follow as closely to the letter as possible, for putting what I need to put on the chalkboard, for making sure that educational materials are where they need to be; that takes at least thirty minutes. I am typically one of the first to the office, and I need to be.
Quote:3. Let me guess, you're not afraid to send referrals to the office. Good for you. Doesn't mean that you are controling the class anyway. My husband is a teacher and according to him only about 10% of the kids are really troublemakers anyway.
Absolutely. But I am especially proud of days when I refer nobody. I can deal with small stuff. I have my limits, and fighting words (especially "F--- you" and "I will kill you") get a quick trip to the principal's office. If I keep students busy I solve my problems. I act decisively on fighting words because those precede the one thing I least want to see -- a fight. You would be surprised how I deal with simple profanity, as in "I don't like this f---ing assignment". I call the kid up and have him say that without the variant of the f-word and demonstrate that the word is empty. Then I tell him that we all have to do things that we don't really like to do at the time.
Quote:4. I would venture to guess you largely are following the predtermined lesson plan of the regular teacher--and that assumes you actually teach instead it basically being an easy day for the students. That being said I wouldn't want you subbing for science, math or civics. Your posts on the forum would indicate you're simply not qualified to teach those courses. Maybe you can bypass that by restricting yourself to students in Elementary or (Middle School).
No problem. I follow instructions, and I have few problems except in classes that concentrate trouble-makers, and one reason for coming in early is to find out who the potential trouble-makers are. I have shown such classes a ream of referral papers and warned that I know how to use them. My reputation follows me. Students can have a good day of classwork or they can refuse. Should they refuse, then the consequences are theirs.
...I could go on about education and teaching, but that is beyond the scope of this thread. It suffices to say that most K-12 teachers have done little to know what the Real World (the factory and the office) are like. Most K-12 students need to prepare for the regimented world of commerce and industry. I'd like to see teachers have to do a year or two of non-teaching work -- real work -- before they get a real teaching job.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
