Days on prac completed: 2 weeks, 4 days
Days on prac to go: 2 weeks, 1 day.
The irony has not escaped me that all we teaching students are just dying for the teaching bit to be over. Well, it's quite tough you know.
But I can't help but think that teaching is a little like parenting in that the minute you're responsible for all these tender young minds, all the proverbial hoary old c's come drifting up from dank little corners of the mind.
"The bell is a signal for me, not for you."
"Eyes to the front."
"You're only wasting your own time."
"Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about." No, wait....
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I remember Dfkan's Principal, on the first day of High School, advising the wee sprogs to address disruptive classmates with the following: "You're stealing my learning time" - perhaps you could adopt that one.
I have said it before and I will say it again - you are a brave, brave woman - teenage children are most horrible indeed
I suppose they don't use chalk anymore? So no chalk dust all over your hands and pockets? Just white board marker stains?
Please please please blog your story re Mr Heindriks...
I second the request for another story.
And yes, you are brave. I admire you for doing what you are doing. It sounds like you are turning into a real teacher.
Good luck with the kids. Frankly, I'm at a loss to explain why anyone would want to work with horrid, cruel little know-it-alls, but I suppose someone has to ;)
My favourite teacher quote on a school excursion was "shower, or I will shower with you". This from a male teacher to a all-boys school resulted in everybody being well and truly clean.
Carol: what kind of Dorky McDorkerson principal was that?! Next week, however, with my feral Year 10s I'm going to start a "time owing" list with the horrors staying in at lunchtime. This afternoon I wouldn't let the Year 10s leave until I had 5 seconds of silence: when you're eating into THEIR time they soon comply.
Burp: Which story, there are so many! But, yes, I will - that goes for you too, Karen.
Lonie - frankly, the kids are not nearly the problem the other teachers are.
Spud Mack - in these enlightened times, one would probably end up as the lead story on Channel 9 for that one.
The story at end of year exams when you had to go back to class to ask a question.
I smile just thinking abut it...SNIFF!
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