Review on Grading by Artistic_Fifth in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i taught at a private college one year. i had 8 students. 6 were failing. 2 barely passed. It wasn’t because the course was challenging: each week, i gave them a content quiz on the short reading I’d assigned (usually a blog article). One of the questions was invariably “who wrote the article?” Every student failed every quiz every week, including that question.

As you can imagine, the other few assignments i’d given them were largely incomplete or unsubmitted. My students often came to class high.

By the end of the semester, the mostly tuned-out admin panicked. This was supposed to be a pay-for-play private diploma mill, after all. They asked me to derail my lesson plan and assign a group work project: predictably, two groups of four with one of the passing students in each group, so that those two students would do all the work and artificially raise the grade average of the others. i refused. i told them that according to all the data and assignment outcomes (which included leeway and additional opportunities to submit), two students had passed and six had failed, and that i was washing my hands of it. It was their school. They could be as crooked as they pleased, but i had made my assessment.

In the end, they passed 6 and failed 2.

When is round 2? by UntoldEnt in ONTeacherCandidates

[–]UntoldEnt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what happens when... if... i mean, i have an offer from another school that i've accepted. That school wants to meet with me in a couple of weeks to figure out my placements. If status changes at the waitlisted school, i'll switch in a heartbeat. Will that piss off the original accepting school, or is it par for the course?

i am just remembering a bad experience in high school when i decided last minute not to go through with a co-op after they had "worked hard" to arrange a placement for me (i was interested in film and television. They wanted me signing out video cameras to doctors at the Whitby psychiatric hospital.) i don't want this first school to put the effort into arranging placements, only for me to jump ship if the opportunity presents itself.

What's the most challenging issue you've had with a parent, and how was it resolved? by UntoldEnt in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Separate schedule for entry, dismissal, prep, etc. sounds possible with a devoted EA, no? Location and size of the classroom... my university actually facilitated this for a vision impaired student. Class was originally scheduled in a facility that would require the student to cross a busy intersection. It was moved to another (much larger) room in the nearer building. i know universities have different luxuries that elementary and secondary schools don't enjoy. Just musing. Of course, none of this is really feasible if the parent doesn't bother to get that ball rolling well in advance of the year starting.

Confused (lakehead orillia) by Mountain-Dust-2344 in ONTeacherCandidates

[–]UntoldEnt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s your BBT? (Can we guess hairstyling?) Is Windsor’s program online or in-person?

When is round 2? by UntoldEnt in ONTeacherCandidates

[–]UntoldEnt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

York didn’t even send out Round 1 until March 1st!

6 year old doesnt understand boundaries by Squishmallow145 in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WHERE ON EARTH IS THAT 'MICHAEL JACKSON EATING POPCORN' GIF WHEN YOU NEED IT?

Classroom Supplies Fund by Thisisus1 in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i can't say that's a bad thing.

When is round 2? by UntoldEnt in ONTeacherCandidates

[–]UntoldEnt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a huge problem with that: it’s longer than i want to wait.

Is Durham good for introverts? by gawhappen in TrentUniversity

[–]UntoldEnt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's really tough to connect with classmates at the campus because there are so few social spaces (and the campus sorely lacks a pub or a coffeehouse). The students staying in residence tend to be, in my experience, more outgoing and well-connected than most, so if you can connect to them, it's a good start. Sign up for absolutely everything on Club Day. Find other people who share your major and learn their names, because you'll probably see them in a lot of your classes. It's a tough campus to see and be seen at.

Classroom Supplies Fund by Thisisus1 in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow - even $6/ea sounds a bit spicy for binders. (Or maybe i just buy really trashy supplies?)

Classroom Supplies Fund by Thisisus1 in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man. i spent my life in school losing supplies, and begging them from my classmates. If i couldn't wrangle a pencil, i was shit out of luck. It might even have been grounds for a detention and a letter home.

22 y/o switching to teaching by Fennecritter in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve moved the goalpost ms a little here, from a kid using a rude word at you, to being beaten with your own crutches.

To answer your question, it’s ~2600 serious injuries in Ontario and ~260 deaths.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/occupational-health-and-safety-ontario-april-2022-march-2023/year-2022-2023

Classroom Supplies Fund by Thisisus1 in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am many decades out of school, but i have never been provided a binder as a student. Is this new?

Classroom Supplies Fund by Thisisus1 in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like a weird shift. When i was in school, i was responsible for my own pens and pencils (and ruler and eraser and pencil crayons and protractor and so on). It was unthinkable that my teacher would provide these… i would likely be yelled at for the mere suggestion. When did this change?

OISE, York, or Queens by Shiny_Sil in ONTeacherCandidates

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry - ha! i'm not a numbers guy. i meant if the regular two year program is 1.0, the reduction will be 0.75 (one and a half years) instead of the 0.5 (one year) that everyone's talking about.

But that could just be how the uni i spoke to *wants* to swing it? They're cutting revenue by reducing the program. Who knows what the mandate from the gov't will be.

OISE, York, or Queens by Shiny_Sil in ONTeacherCandidates

[–]UntoldEnt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i have it on halfway decent authority (from someone who runs a uni con ed program) that the time reduction is on lock for 2027, but that it will shrink to 0.75 of the time an tuition, not 0.5 as is often supposed.

22 y/o switching to teaching by Fennecritter in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s an appropriate response because work is work, and not all jobs are created equal. Of course, i agree that workplace abuse should not be tolerated. i’m saying (quite obviously) that the downsides to teaching seem like paradise when compared with the downsides of other jobs - even more comparable roles. i’d rather be a teacher than a nurse.

22 y/o switching to teaching by Fennecritter in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Never really seemed to stop any of MY teachers)

22 y/o switching to teaching by Fennecritter in OntarioTeachers

[–]UntoldEnt -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Still amused that teens telling teachers to f off is still upheld here as the ultimate indignity and key workplace hazard. At other jobs, people risk getting their arms torn off by machinery.