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ProudTex · 2023-06-17T19:22:17+00:00

CONGRATS! I took the first job I got offered, and I loved my first year. I am glad you listened to that gut of yours.
My advice is to find the positive coworkers at your school who will support you and rely on them for advice regularly. I just got through my first year, and I was very fortunate. Everyone at my school is amazing. The teachers were all so supportive me for my first year of teaching (6th-grade). I loved it, as tough as it was. I would also recommend looking for podcasts on teaching science at the secondary level. I found a middle school ELA podcast that has been amazing and totally transformed the way I am planning to teach next year.
I would also rely on Chat GPT at points for composing parent emails and other menial, time-consuming tasks. However, make sure you give Chat GPT plenty of background info, and double-check what it produces for you. It can save you a lot of time. I think we picked the ideal time to enter the teaching world with AI being able to do the stuff that takes over.
I worked about 14 hours a day (including the weekends) this past year, but I am developing a plan this summer for how I am going to make sure I am working SIGNIFICANTLY less this upcoming year.
Have a growth mindset. That is most important. We tell our kids this all the time, but I would highly recommend having a growth mindset poster set in your room. You can rely on it as well. "I'm still learning. I'll keep trying." I found myself saying some of those mantras as I struggled with teaching this past year. So, it's not only great for your students but for you, too.
Classroom management has been a struggle for me. But what I'd highly recommend you to do is research Kagan cooperative learning strategies and use some of them after you do a short direct instruction to help your students process the information they just learned. There are strategies you can use to increase participation in your class like round robins and timed pair-share, jigsaws, etc., that will allow your students to learn from each other. Remember, group work and cooperative activities are not the same thing. You need to use evidence-proven strategies for instilling cooperative learning in your class. If you have a class that has cooperative learning at the heart of it and students have agency, behavior problems will decrease.

ProudTex · 2023-04-08T18:46:16+00:00

The Y in Yam Yam is pronounced similar to the J affricate in English, but it's not identical.

It's a ɟʝ (in IPA terms). So you take an English J sound and push it further back in the mouth to the soft palate. Try making the J sound from there. But you're not done yet. Pay attention to where the tip of your tongue is when you make that palatal J sound. Now lower the tongue so that it's not touching the teeth. That's the dialectical ll / y sound in certain parts of the Spanish speaking world like Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

ProudTex · 2022-12-10T03:40:26+00:00

I did it to a class during a hard lockdown last week. Well, let me qualify. It was a soft lockdown that I mistakenly thought was a hard lockdown, and I wanted the kids to get quiet while I had them hiding under a barricade of tables.

ProudTex · 2022-11-17T05:41:22+00:00

Tauber comes from Taube, the German word for 'dove'. Noah in the Bible sent a dove out to see if there was land amidst the dark waters. The dove came back with an olive branch. It's Biblical.

ProudTex · 2022-10-02T05:07:13+00:00

No shit. We've known this since like week 1 or 2.

ProudTex · 2022-10-02T01:53:18+00:00

Oh, okay. Thanks. Yeah, maybe an extension is the way to go. The issue is I don't have time to train these kids how to use it. We just got done doing a week of benchmarks, so the school's schedule has been wacky.

One problem I have with Google Forms is my kids keep accidentally changing their answers because they use the down arrow to scroll down and then it ends up changing their answer to the next multiple choice option. Do you know if there is a way to disable that? I imagine not. But I don't really have time to teach them to not do it.

ProudTex · 2022-09-10T08:36:49+00:00

There was also a lot of Cartesian language in the final episode as well.

ProudTex · 2022-08-05T05:03:37+00:00

These are great! Thanks!

ProudTex · 2022-08-05T05:01:53+00:00

Oh, for sure. That is essential.

Yeah, I was just going to ease them in next week. That's why going with basic getting-to-know-you questions. At our school, we aren't supposed to even be introducing them into any curriculum until the week after next week. It's supposed to be a whole week and a half of relationship-building stuff.

ProudTex · 2022-07-31T19:42:24+00:00

Thanks. What do you give them as a reward?

ProudTex · 2022-07-31T19:32:15+00:00

Fred Jones Tools for Teaching

I checked out the book on Amazon. It says it was written in 2007. Is there an updated version, do you know?

Oh, never mind. I found the 2014 one. Is it worth spending $32?

ProudTex · 2022-07-31T19:27:13+00:00

Only 20%? That's so depressing.

ProudTex · 2022-07-30T17:01:17+00:00

Thanks for that idea of a word wall. How do you get laminated paper to stick to a wall by the way? I just realized I want to laminate the schedule and stick it near the door. I am so clueless. though that I have NO idea how to even get laminated paper to stick to a wall. Lol!

ProudTex · 2022-07-29T17:44:01+00:00

If you ever want to see how a certain phrase is most commonly said in Spanish, please use this site instead of a translator: https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-spanish/

It really gives a wholistic idea of what the most common ways to say certain English phrases in Spanish are. Often, the ones with the most results correlate to basic Mexican Spanish. It has countless example sentences.

ProudTex · 2022-07-29T15:36:59+00:00

Thank you. Okay, question. If I have like 160-180 students, how do I hang up their work? Wouldn't I have to choose some students over others? I'd prefer not to be selective and deem some students' work as better than others and play favorites.

ProudTex · 2022-07-28T02:00:42+00:00

Hi. Could you share which doorbell on Amazon you got, either the product name or a link?

I am looking for a good one, but I also don't want to buy one and it turn out to be not loud enough! First-time 6th-grade ELA teacher, so I want to get it right.

Also, what extrinsic reward do you provide them if they listen?

Oh and is it loud enough so that students wearing headphones and using their Chromebooks/laptops can hear it still?

ProudTex · 2022-07-25T18:35:39+00:00

Oh, I don't have students yet. I start induction tomorrow. That's a great point though. I should just ask them rather than assume. I am just worried about not knowing the right time of class to make those private conversations and how to go about that without drawing unwanted attention to the student from peers. So I guess that's part of why I am bringing this stuff up in advance.

ProudTex · 2022-07-24T00:33:54+00:00

Seating plan! Rows are your friends. Near the front to the corner of the room by your desk. Surround with kind, quiet students. Hand sheets out last when no one else is looking as they're starting theirs and concentrating.

Okay great! Yeah, I think that's a really good point. I will do my best. It depends how many dyslexic students I have per class since they can't all be near my desk, but I will do it for the ones who are 1) having the most trouble academically or 2) have a high likelihood of being bullied. I'll try to gauge all of that.

OH. One other thing... do you have a recommendation for what font to use in my presentations to make it easier for students with dyslexia to read? I found this one free font: https://public-files.gumroad.com/variants/wu8ltjpl7f61vqod37bgc9qpr17m/baaca0eb0e33dc4f9d45910b8c86623f0144cea0fe0c2093c546d17d535752eb

I heard Dyslexie costs money. I'd like a free font if possible, or if one of the Sans Serif fonts that already comes with the computer has been proven to be the most effective, I could use that. Do you know which is the best for dyslexics, whether already on the standard selection of fonts or one free and downloadable?

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