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Is this him?He's a scientist, brah. Think Doc Brown; see also Sid the science kid.College Professor? Something in seismology maybe?Not a teacher.So Tanner, Shick!, Pickles and now MOP are all teachers?
That is quite an all-star team there, makes you want to have more kids just so these guys can learn them right.
And I asked about teacher parent conferences, principal said most of her staff are bilingual and that its not problem for them to sit in and help communicate. The students all speak English and that is gong to be the only language we speak in my class, that's gonna be on my expectations list.
I plan on teaching rock history towards the end of the year in the social studies classes. We'll sample music in class as well. I have a friend who heads up a vicious 2 man band of drums and a bass guitar. Jimmy Buffett will also have to be somewhere in the curriculum.
Do you also tell all your students they will fail miserably? Not exactly instilling confidence in me here.
No but if a student of mine told me "Mr. Malloy, I'm entering a MMA tournament this weekend. I've never trained in martial arts, I can't bench press a box of Kleenex, and I'm a hemophiliac. What do you think?" I'd tell them it wasn't a good idea.
Based on the way you post here, I would expect you to belittle the student. Not just tell him it wasn't a good idea.
Not really. Obviously many of his posts here have indicated that he's got a short fuse and some strange ideas about the world but that's not really it.
I would agree, if I everything MOP has said on this board was true. This takes us back to Phrozens point. Which is more likely to be true.? That MOP is actually qualified, or the people in charge of hiring teachers, is making a huge mistake?
Not even KCitons could derail this.
How much money would it take for you to post strictly in the shark pool and asst coaches forum? Serious question.
How do you think I'm derailing this?Not even KCitons could derail this.
I don't know how you plan on rectifying the fact that their parents are from other countries, but man do I want to hear the story.
Did he say you're derailing it?How do you think I'm derailing this?Not even KCitons could derail this.
Teachers are heroes and they aren't paid nearly enough!!!It just baffles me that someone with no teaching experience or educational background can just waltz into a job teaching middle school or high school kids
You're right Ditka. Fantasycurse knows how to walk that fine line.Did he say you're derailing it?How do you think I'm derailing this?Not even KCitons could derail this.
AGREED!You're right Ditka. Fantasycurse knows how to walk that fine line.Did he say you're derailing it?How do you think I'm derailing this?Not even KCitons could derail this.
With that said, Not even Limp Ditka could derail this.
MOP if you would like to set the proper tone about emphasizing English and college to your students perhaps it would be a good idea to set the tone with a video your first day.
*cough* Charter school *cough*It just baffles me that someone with no teaching experience or educational background can just waltz into a job teaching middle school or high school kids
No you don't.Update: Interviewed with the principal, went vey well. She said she was in a bind and she needed someone who could start as early as next Tuesday, guess there is some holiday on Monday. She went to say she would make a decision by the end of the day today or tomorrow but she also started handing me the text books I would be teaching, the AP showed up again at the end of the interview.
The principal was a nice lady but means business, that was obvious. She definitely is on a different level than almost anyone else I met, meaning she has earned that principal position. She is about my age but looked older I have to say. She is working on her PhD and she told me she is pretty easy to get along with and most of her teachers want to stay. I hate to say it but she was trying to sell me on the job rather than me sell her, I wasn't expecting that. She did start to tell me about these nineteen 9th graders they have in a middle school that is supposed to be K-8. The naughty 19 as I am gonna call them are not very driven. Their parents are mostly from other countries and don't emphasize that they should be going to college…I will have to rectify that situation immediately.
The other classes and students are 7th/8th grade math and social sciences. The math book looked pretty easy, the other text books have a lot of pictures and the words are a little bigger than the college text books I am used to. It's good, it doesn't look all that difficult. I don't believe the material will be the issue, it's that classroom management. I plan on having a daily routine for the social studies classes, that routine is going to eliminate homework most nights. There will be no way around math but I want to try and limit it to about 30 minutes tops for homework, classes are almost 2 hours a pice but only twice a week and then we see all the students form all the classes on Friday. They even revers the times so that early classes on Monday will be the afternoon group on Wed…seems complicated for the kids but whatever.
80% of the students' parents don't speak a lot of English-
The principal's first words to me "Look, we're in a little bit of a bind here"…and again a couple minutes later "I'm in a bind here"…few minutes later I get the news about the naughty 19 which will now be the N19 for short. I also found out this was not the 1st teacher in this position this year, at least the 2nd so it sounds like the N19 are doing a good job of winning the tug-o-war but I have different ideas. I'm smart enough to find the smartest teachers in that school who know what their doing and surround myself with them. I do this everywhere I go, find what's working and make it my own.It just baffles me that someone with no teaching experience or educational background can just waltz into a job teaching middle school or high school kids
I don't feel that is unfair at all. I'm gonna use it as motivation and not in a bad way. I have to work harder and smarter than the next person that actually has teaching credentials and I gotta switch from coffee to hot tea to keep calm.
Update: Interviewed with the principal, went vey well. She said she was in a bind and she needed someone who could start as early as next Tuesday, guess there is some holiday on Monday. She went to say she would make a decision by the end of the day today or tomorrow but she also started handing me the text books I would be teaching, the AP showed up again at the end of the interview.
The principal was a nice lady but means business, that was obvious. She definitely is on a different level than almost anyone else I met, meaning she has earned that principal position. She is about my age but looked older I have to say. She is working on her PhD and she told me she is pretty easy to get along with and most of her teachers want to stay. I hate to say it but she was trying to sell me on the job rather than me sell her, I wasn't expecting that. She did start to tell me about these nineteen 9th graders they have in a middle school that is supposed to be K-8. The naughty 19 as I am gonna call them are not very driven. Their parents are mostly from other countries and don't emphasize that they should be going to college…I will have to rectify that situation immediately.
The other classes and students are 7th/8th grade math and social sciences. The math book looked pretty easy, the other text books have a lot of pictures and the words are a little bigger than the college text books I am used to. It's good, it doesn't look all that difficult. I don't believe the material will be the issue, it's that classroom management. I plan on having a daily routine for the social studies classes, that routine is going to eliminate homework most nights. There will be no way around math but I want to try and limit it to about 30 minutes tops for homework, classes are almost 2 hours a pice but only twice a week and then we see all the students form all the classes on Friday. They even revers the times so that early classes on Monday will be the afternoon group on Wed…seems complicated for the kids but whatever.
80% of the students' parents don't speak a lot of English-
