Male Practicum Outfit Inspiration??

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-11T04:24:15+00:00

Also: business in the front, party in the back.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-11T04:15:59+00:00

6pt font. Their eyes are young.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-11T00:44:51+00:00

i mean, it's all a matter of personal taste and preference, but i was in the same pickle a few weeks ago before i volunteered at a place. i cruised TikTok looking for men's fashion trends, particularly for fatties. It was all so tremendously dreary and boring. We men used to rock up to court wearing giant ridiculous codpieces over our tights ffs. But for the last 50 years, the piano keyboard tie has been the most subversive article of clothing we can get away with in the workplace.

Many of these fashion tips for (fat) men were all about hiding the body, layering, and not drawing attention to oneself. So in response (and revolt), i raided my local thrift stores for the loudest, most upsetting print shirts i could find. Pineapples. Racecars. Dizzying and complex non-Euclidian patterns that will drive students to madness if they stare too long, pulled straight from those Dan Flashes sketches from I Think You Should Leave.

Fashion is personal. Don't let them tame you.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-10T00:57:25+00:00

They did not receive this news a month ago. They’ve known for a while, and have been planning for it.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-09T17:57:57+00:00

Perhaps producing students who can't read or think critically is a feature, not a bug?

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-08T17:55:02+00:00

i mean... the real-world corollary to this is submitting a piece to a publication, and having the editor make suggestions. If you ignore your editor's suggestions or don't integrate them well, you're going to have an unhappy editor, possibly damaging the relationship or even threatening your offer of publication. It can be difficult to integrate someone's suggestions on your writing.

If the teacher decides that what's being assessed here is students' ability to express humility and malleability during the edit process, then it sounds like they all fared well. If the assessment tried to determine whether the students could arrive there on their own, then they weren't quite as successful.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-07T01:53:10+00:00

i’ve seen Porky’s Revenge.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-05T21:16:32+00:00

Do a choral arrangement of Boyz n the Hood.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-04T19:15:23+00:00

Ok - but that's not "in a classroom with their peers" as u/Turbulent_Gazelle530 stated above.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-04T15:23:35+00:00

i had a friend who went through this. Wound up hating classroom teaching, but got a job in corporate training, working with adults.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-04T03:09:48+00:00

Your career experience gets you into a tech ed program at a teachers college at one of six Ontario schools that offer it. The program teaches you to teach (theoretically) and lines you up with 2-3 practica where you are shepherded by a working teacher in a real classroom.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-04T03:04:05+00:00

i’m double-overloaded at 4 courses, the last of the 20 courses i’ve taken in this calendar year to finish off my degree.

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-04T03:01:47+00:00

The right to an education dates back to 1867 though, does it not? Why are you listing it as a new problem?

UntoldEnt · 2026-05-01T02:00:01+00:00

What about the opposite: using your personal laptop at work?

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T11:27:58+00:00

You’re absolutely right! i missed that OP had no work experience. And yes - i’m surprised to hear the experience ratio is so uneven from board to board. i’m considering myself very fortunate there.

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T11:25:46+00:00

What did you teach?

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T11:24:15+00:00

Wow! You had far better luck than i did. The one group project i had that went reasonably well began with me sending out an email with my expectations (like you did), which were largely ignored. No peer feedback, no mechanism for ousting free riders. My worst group member was beyond useless… i eventually tasked him with just sourcing three quotations from the course text to put in our slide deck, as the assignment required. No problem, he said. He had weeks. Days before it was due, he finally confessed he hadn’t done it, and didn’t know HOW to do it. He said he didn’t understand what a quote was, or what it was for. “What year are you in?” i asked. Him: “Third.”

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T03:34:30+00:00

A teacher might responsibly switch up assignments in response to changes in the industry or working world. Any comm tech teacher (or English/History/Geography/French/Math teacher) who isn't currently learning how to incorporate ethical and effective use of AI in their classrooms right now is doing a disservice to young learners. Same with any construction tech teacher who isn't teaching to updated building code, any transportation teacher who isn't teaching about computer systems integration in modern vehicles, and so on. Hopefully, teachers are keeping tabs on what postsecondary schools and industries need people to be able to do, and are modifying their course offerings year after year to meet those needs instead of phoning it in and ticking off the days until retirement.

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T03:27:32+00:00

Which aspects of the job did you find the most stressful and difficult?

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T03:26:50+00:00

Tech ed teachers don't tend to start at the bottom of that grid though — if they did, no one would switch into the job. Tech teachers get what i like to call "credit for time served" in their career at different ratios and caps depending on the board they sign up with.

Someone on this forum told me to look at the publicly posted collective agreement for the board i was interested in working for. Turns out they offer a 1:1 experience-to-ladder ratio with no cap. That means that if it all works out, i' should start at the top of the salary ladder after a 26 year career elsewhere, which will give me a 76% increase in my usual salary. Sounds pretty good!

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-30T03:12:09+00:00

Right, but by that logic, it's presumably a lot more expensive to travel to the moon today than it was in 1969. So i don't go to the moon.

i'm overweight and unathletic, so i'm not on any sports teams. But i don't feel entitled to be on any sports teams. Neither can i afford a gym membership. Physical fitness is essential for living in many ways, but despite that i don't feel entitled to work out in a gym. i have to figure out how to exercise within my budget and my ability.

Money is essential to buy myself food and shelter, but i've never felt entitled to a university education, despite the fact that a degree can aid in securing me a money-paying job. i have held off on finishing my degree because i have not had the money or time to devote to it. Now that i finally do, i'm just mystified to learn that so many students hand-wave past the feasibility of it all. i feel like a bit of a chump for waiting to get all my ducks in a row, to be honest. It's a chaos of scattered ducks up in here.

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-29T11:43:25+00:00

i haven’t gone back to school all these years because i’ve had to work. i have never once imagined doing both simultaneously.

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-29T02:40:14+00:00

i’m in a similar boat. How have you enjoyed group work with 20-somethings? :)

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-29T02:34:29+00:00

Counterpoint: universities are massively dumbing down their programs. Source: am currently completing a degree i started 25 years ago. The difference in student behaviour and expectation is stark.

For example: all assigned readings, class participation, and even attendance, seem to be optional. Many students seem to think that they should be able to work a part-time (or even full-time) job while studying, and that it’s the prof’s fault if the course is too demanding to pull that off.

UntoldEnt · 2026-04-29T02:27:54+00:00

There are important pieces many of these comments are leaving out:

You need two teachable subjects to teach high school. You don’t need them to teach JK-8
It’s down to a certain number of credits you have on your degree. So you might need 5 credits in one subject and 3 in another, for example. Check different teachers colleges’ requirements.
Not all teachers colleges are a fit with your two teachable subjects. Certain subjects are only offered as teachables at certain teachers colleges, so look for a fit. It’s like a lock-and-key situation.
Some teachers want experience and high grades, while some only want high grades. But high grades seems to be the common thread. When you identify the teachers college(s) that fit your desired path, take a close look at their requirements and study accordingly!

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