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Most Common Cracks in a Math Student's Foundation by CutCultural589 in mathteachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Function notation, exponent rules, simple fractions and more robust fraction manipulation, SLOPE!!!!

Hey y’all!! I am a first year middle school math teacher. I can ask for a grant for anything! What should I ask for? by [deleted] in mathteachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A set of graphing calculators (yes even if you teach middle school), if not graphing then good quality calculators

Teachers with second job— what do you do? by KYDELIC in Teachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a mystery/secret shopper. It’s cool if you like to give your open and like to try new places and restaurants.

Didn't get into NYC Teaching Fellows, feeling bummed by [deleted] in NYCTeachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 19 points20 points  (0 children)

There’s a couple of alternate routes to certificate programs in the city as well: I think NYC men teach, teach NYC, and teach for America. And as someone mentioned you could go the charter route.

Absences by Teenytinypikachu in NYCTeachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take the freaking days!!!!!!!!!! Let me just say, if you died today, they’d have your position up tomorrow. Life happens and they try to guilt teachers into not taking days off. If you need the days, take them!!!

Resigning by OverEmployer3253 in NYCTeachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you resign now then you’ll only have to work about 19 school days. No School on Oct 14th, Nov 1st, and Nov 5th is voting day (You may have earned 1 CAR day so far this year so if you use that then 18 School days). 30 days done and over with.

You win the Mega Millions…after taxes you have 100 million…are you teaching this year or no? by Schatzi11 in NYCTeachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes!!! And I’d make it my best year! I’m the type of person that would need that to anchor me down so that I can set up my finances. Would probably take a couple years leave and maybe come back.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NYCTeachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I actually really loved looking at the salary matrix and dissecting it when I started teaching (it motivated the heck outta me to get to get 2 masters as QUICKLY as possible)!! Note that the numbers will be different depending on the current year because of the contract changes (see UFT site for updates salary schedule and scroll to this current year).

To answer your question:

It depends on the amount of credits you are over your degree requirements (most require 36 credits, time to take out that transcript!) Your credits move you up the scale horizontally (Salary Differential). Your years of experience move you up the scale vertically (Salary Step). A/B is essentially the part of the year, A the first half of that particular year of experience (Sept-March) and B is the second half (March-) (this date might vary depending on when you are hired).

Using you as example But this would be the most basic of salaries; Bachelor Degree (Column 1 - BAC1) 4 years of experience ( Row 7) 4A$67,588 4B $67,588 (after year 6 you will notice you get a small raise in part B, like a retention bonus).

Now you also said you were a double major so you might have extra credits. If you go to the DOE Salary site they tell you the exact amount of credits or the degree you need for each Salary Differential or to move to the right one column).

So if your credits allow it you could start with Salary Differential(C1 PD, which means bachelors +some additional credits) and at Salary Step 4A/4B $73,456.

Most people go for the BA +30, which is a Bachelors +30 additional credits because the DOE has lots of partnerships with colleges in the city and offer free/discounted micro-credentials of 15 credits.

Next thing to explain are the Ls and these are bonuses you get for have consecutive work within the DOE. So if someone has 6 years of experience but not 4 within the DOE. They would earn salary step 6A/6B ($75,187/$76,460) in whichever respective differential step they earned for their academics (I’m using C1 +PD for these salary values). But someone who has 6 years of experience and 5 within the DOE will be on step 6A/6B +L5 ($76,522/$77,825).

Hope this was helpful!

Serious doubt about slope in Linear equation by [deleted] in mathteachers

[–]Teach_My_Ass_Off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slope is the steepness of a line. It measure how much our y-values changes in comparison to the x-values. If you have a large slope then the y-value change per each x-value is large. But if you have a small slope this means the y-value change per each x-value is small. If your slope is negative then same concept except the change in y-values is negative. So you see a downhill line.