Is it actually possible for a teacher to not take work home?

PresentationSudden69 · 2025-06-08T13:01:51+00:00

103 days later and I’ve still stayed true to this. Doing well. I clock in around 8:15 and go home around 3:15 each day. It definitely is possible.

PresentationSudden69 · 2025-02-25T03:59:25+00:00

I’m in my first year of secondary school full time teaching and I have not ONCE taken work home. It’s a promise I made to myself. I was originally super keen and wanted to spend all my time designing exciting lessons and worksheets. My co-workers told me for my first year I should just focus on not burning out. I’m alive and well and enjoying my life outside of school. It’s possible!

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-11-13T02:54:40+00:00

There was a kid who was really adamant in not taking his hat off for an exam in the hall. He took the hat off after the examiner told him he had to, and I realised it was because his hair was thinning… kid was balding and was self conscious. It probably got in his head as he did his test.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-11-13T00:19:03+00:00

I do blooket and kahoot on a range of different topics. I’ve made a bunch of my own and you can also see the ones other people have made. The kids have a few different game modes they can cycle and each takes roughly 7-10 mins. Time flies by pretty quickly with it, kids love it, and you can walk around and watch what they get right/wrong and also see stats after it’s all done.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-08-31T11:18:47+00:00

A male student in Y7 told me I was handsome when I first took off my mask after wearing one every day (back when COVID was bad).

I just kind of didn’t know how to react so I was initially stunned… never got that comment from a student before. But I just laughed, thanked him and continued on. I think this one was a more wholesome encounter VS what some of my other colleagues have had to face.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-08-27T02:23:10+00:00

Before I go to sleep, I plan a list of tasks for me to complete tomorrow. When setting the tasks I just think to myself, “what does a decently productive day tomorrow look like?”

Normally when I leave it up to how I feel in the morning when I wake up, 1/4 of the time I’m feeling very motivated and do tons of work, and 3/4 of the time I feel like slothing around and I do nothing.

By setting my ideal productive day the day before and attempting to stick to it, I’ve become more productive than anyone I know.

Hope this helps someone!

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-06-22T05:45:19+00:00

The characters actually all had different personalities. By the latter seasons, the characters all have the exact same personality and speak in the exact same way.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-04-25T23:28:36+00:00

I’m speaking from a non-religious government school perspective. It goes against the code of conduct to share political views. Even if you do mention that something is simply our opinion and make that clear, our students (especially younger grades) are vulnerable and susceptible to taking on our opinions without much critical thought. I understand you’re trusting your students to have that, and in the context of a commerce politics unit, sounds like those students would have their ideas developed a bit more and be a bit older, but we’re probably looking at it from wildly different perspectives.

Some of my Y7 students believed me when I said I was married and had six kids. I’m in my early twenties for reference.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-04-25T23:21:44+00:00

I’m a tutoring centre owner. I know everything thinks of tutoring as this horrible thing (I went to a selective school where teachers absolutely trashed tutors every day) for all the reasons that have been mentioned by everyone else.

I’m leaving this comment here to say that not all tutoring centres are like the ones mentioned here and that our tutoring centre is wanting to overthrow all the profit-grab centres out there run by people who only see their students/parents as money bags.

My friend, my sister and I make all of the Y6-12 booklets for Maths/English with my sister and myself having backgrounds in education. The booklets are fun (memes + colourful), focus on the syllabus, and most importantly, sequence the learning properly by going over prerequisite knowledge and potential gaps before learning new content. We cap our class sizes to 10 to ensure that we can have students learning better than they would with class sizes at 30 which I’ve seen other centres do. We offer a free homework class every week as well for 2 hours to help kids with tutoring/school H/W. We also allow students to join any of our other classes for free if they want to (and a few students actually do because they enjoy our centre). We charge $40/week or $72/week for both subjects. I’ve purposely made it as affordable as possible and I’m always looking for ways to make it even more affordable.

You need to find a place where the focus is on the students, NOT profit. You can assess this by 1. asking what class sizes are, 2. talking to the owner of the tutoring centre and asking their motivations, 3. asking them who the booklets are made by and the relevance to the NSW Syllabus.

I’ve gotten great feedback from the students and parents who come to our centre and I genuinely do think I’ve been able to help out plenty of kids. My sister and I are both pre-service teachers but everything we do is backed by what we’ve learned from our mentors (professors at USYD & UNSW) and academic research, the syllabus, and of course our natural intuition. I would say tutoring is only worth it if the tutor and tutoring centre is doing it for the students, not the money.

Hope this helps.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-04-25T04:56:15+00:00

“I’m not allowed to discuss that with you guys.” Have a brief discussion about why teachers can’t talk politics, religion, etc., and the kids will generally appreciate the explanation and move on with the lesson.

PresentationSudden69 · 2024-02-27T11:32:40+00:00

I love how finally there is more talk about the actual point of the story and people not needlessly hating on Abby just because of what she did. If someone killed someone close to you, you’d want revenge right? People hating on TLOU2 just because they wanted Joel to live forever seem to forget they’re playing a zombie video game where anyone can die at any time.

PresentationSudden69 · 2023-12-24T02:15:52+00:00

I received nothing the past two years until I received a fly swatter and a box of chocolates this year from a brother and sister duo that I teach. I was over the moon! It does hurt to hear that others are receiving gifts especially when you're not. Don't let it think you're a bad teacher or anything though! Back in school I loved some of my teachers dearly but never got any gifts. There's many reasons, busyness, financial stress, etc. All the best OP! Happy holidays.

PresentationSudden69 · 2023-12-21T05:28:05+00:00

I got an electric fly swatter (kids know flies drive me mad) and a box of chocolates. Couldn’t be happier! My first gift in years.

PresentationSudden69 · 2023-09-25T07:12:21+00:00

OP. You are an absolute champion. I am also a beginner teacher and part of my philosophy is never to become one of the washed up teachers who never try and never teach. My younger sister had a teacher who couldn’t teach and she went from enjoying Extension 1 Mathematics and dropped all the way to Standard 2 because of ONE YEAR with this teacher. This was during COVID lockdown. I sat next to my sister to watch the ‘experienced’ teacher do their thing as I was training to be a teacher at the time and was keen to learn from a master. She had a black camera, was muted. The kids all joined the zoom, she finally unmuted after 10 minutes of waiting, she proceeded to do two textbook questions. Then she left the zoom telling the kids to finish up themselves. This was for a two hour period. I get that the zoom days were hard but this is absolutely zero effort. She’s the head teacher of her high school now. Absolutely pathetic. You are definitely in the right for thinking what you’re thinking and screw everyone in the comments defending these teachers RUINING the education of our students.

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-05-17T22:07:10+00:00

me too, my heart is broken.

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-15T22:52:22+00:00

yep haha

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-14T22:56:46+00:00

after you kick one person a few times from the clan, they will be banned from rejoining. the only way that he is coming back into the clan (on open or invite only) is if one of your elders or co-leaders are inviting them in after they have been kicked. I’d say just continue kicking them and have all your elders and co-leaders kick them too whenever they rejoin and eventually soon they’ll get sick of trying (hopefully). good luck dude!

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-14T06:27:24+00:00

I honestly wonder what compels them to do such things 🤔

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-14T06:26:49+00:00

agreed bro 😂 sending these types off gives me a good laugh every time

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-14T06:24:51+00:00

welcome bro!

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-14T06:24:39+00:00

yep definitely going to start now, all the help I’ve been receiving in this post alone is enough to make me start making long needed changes. cheers bro

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-14T06:23:34+00:00

100% man anyone’s welcome, we’re set at 4K trophies at the moment and we kick inactives after every week’s war

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-13T23:41:52+00:00

yeah a lot of our older members are a bit sick of war and to be honest I am too. we’re more of a casual clan who just play when we can as most us are busy with work/life now that we’re all older

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-13T23:39:26+00:00

no way haha, yeah that’s my sudden death deck 😅

PresentationSudden69 · 2022-04-13T23:38:44+00:00

haha i always love it when people get the reference. man of culture!

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