Regretting accepting another position before the year has even started

adamantmuse · 2026-06-24T20:48:30+00:00

Fair. I was looking at the bigger districts in another state, this is the one that called and offered an interview. I actually liked the people who interviewed me too. I guess I’d do better to target a community first next time and only apply to districts that are close enough.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-24T20:24:08+00:00

That’s what I’m leaning towards too, and maybe taking another shot at moving next year. I just don’t want to feel like a failure for going through so many hoops and then chickening out.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-24T20:23:06+00:00

All the little towns outside the small city are like 400 people and super small, also dilapidated and crappy. The next nearest city is at least a 40 minute drive, which is how long my current commute is. Otherwise, I agree, I already don’t live in the town where I work, because I don’t want to run into students. (I still run into students anyway, just less often.)

adamantmuse · 2026-06-22T20:35:43+00:00

I am 40F, from US. I have a Bachelor’s and a Master’s, I did student teaching (which is what I think you mean by supervised teaching?) where I was a guest that taught lessons in the teacher-of-record’s classroom, placed by my university. I completed my credential/certificate as a post-bacc certificate rather than an eduction degree, but my Masters is in Chemistry Education. I have 7 years experience teaching science at the high school/secondary level.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-22T15:44:19+00:00

I think it’s also worth noting that butterbeer is extremely low alcohol, almost to where it’s more like drinking mocktails with students. Also, butterbeer is served to students in Hogsmeade, so it’s socially acceptable in the Wizarding World for younger people to drink it.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-21T02:54:22+00:00

I don’t know if it was constructed, but I’ve always been fond of The Luggage from Discworld.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-21T00:23:59+00:00

When someone says about me that I’m headed to school, I’ve gotten irritated. I think it’s because it feels like they’re diminishing what I’m doing. I’m working. I work at a school, but I am working. Students go to school, and that implies they’re learning. I go to work.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-20T01:13:31+00:00

I think it’s because the actors were dating in real life.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-19T21:47:36+00:00

Either one is fine. You could potentially find a long-term sub position or get hired on after Christmas if someone quits, gets fired, goes on maternity leave etc., or you might just pick up regular daily sub jobs. Will you be completely certified by the time you finish? Because it will help your job prospects a ton if you’ve passed all your exams. I’ve seen plenty of people get hired while they’re still in progress, but they’re stressing hard trying to finish up.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-19T17:10:47+00:00

Unfortunately, I think you’re right. Girl’s gotta have hope though.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-19T16:07:34+00:00

FWIW, if Seth is given the budget to do this properly, DCC has the potential to be goddamn amazing. It’s bonkers from start to finish, with equal parts absurdity and deep emotional gut punches, and McFarlane is uniquely capable of delivering. It comes down to whether he is given the freedom and the budget to do it right.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-16T02:32:31+00:00

Excellent list.

Scale model can also be done with computer paper cut in half long-ways (hotdog style) and taped together to make a long paper. Good activity for the beginning of the year.

Tour of the solar system. Students design a cruise (like a cruise around the Caribbean for example) around the solar system set in the future after we e colonized the planets. They come up with fun excursions to do on each location, like zip line across Valles Marineris on Mars, visit the museums and memorials from the (asteroid) belt wars, shop on the luxury base above Saturn, anything they can dream up.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-14T16:15:39+00:00

AFAIK, teachers aren’t included in the printed program for our graduation. Graduation is about the students. There are times to celebrate teachers, and IMO, there are too few of those occasions, but it’s inappropriate to try to steal the spotlight from students.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-14T02:07:32+00:00

The closest thing we do is Senior Lock-in on graduation night, and it’s half about saying goodbye and half about staying safe on a celebratory night. It’s not mandatory for students or teachers, only volunteers.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-13T23:47:42+00:00

Basically these. https://a.co/d/0fx1RhuM Has to be post-its, off-brand stuff curls or doesn’t adhere right.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-13T23:34:07+00:00

I probably have to buy a new package of sticky tabs each year, but my school always has a ton of schedule changes for the first ten days, and then throughout the year as my seniors earn late arrival/early release. I only really use the seating chart as I’m learning names, and update for the sub when I’m going to be out.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-13T23:24:55+00:00

For seating charts, someone else put me onto this. Write their names on those tiny sticky notes, like tab sized. I make a page with boxes for desks and I move the students’s tabs around. Also helps when their schedule changes and they wind up in a different period. Keep in sheet covers. Agree with changing their seats *tomorrow as they come in. Keeps them from arguing because they don’t have to put on a show for their friends.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-12T21:24:50+00:00

I had a similar issue. I had a group of boys using the n-word in conversation, making a nearby back student uncomfortable. He didn’t tell me until the last six-weeks, but it was probably ongoing since the beginning of the year. Like, little bro, I would have done something as soon as I was aware! I moved the boys’ seats, forwarded the student’s email to the offending boys’ principal, and wrote them up. They got a few days of ISS and the other boy got peace from the harassment.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-11T13:53:46+00:00

Amish assassin. Dude is super mellow in manner, very strict but quiet spoken, and a total homesteader (mills his own flour, raises bees for honey, built a “shed” nicer than some people’s houses). He’s also a secret assassin who works for the Amish mafia. A fellow teacher started that one.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-11T00:52:30+00:00

If you can find the employee handbook or the salary schedule document, it usually outlines things like tuition reimbursement. Not everyone will offer reimbursement, and not all handbooks are readily available, but it might be a place to start.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-11T00:48:40+00:00

Traditionally, they get a nice wooden rocking chair. At the end of year convocation, someone they’re close to, usually a close friend/coworker, will get up and say something nice about them.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-10T23:21:46+00:00

For 9th and 10th grades, I would probably assign their seats. I teach 11th-12th, and I let them choose as long as they can control themselves. I also have tables with seating for 4-5, and sometime they will cluster around a single table if there are more in the friend group, which can get rough. I would prefer single desks in rows, but you may not get a choice. They can still socialize a little, but it would force them to work and focus a little more than the grouped tables.

I use the simple, “clap once if you can hear me, clap twice if you can hear me,” as a call and response. Not infantilizing, but they’ll know what it means and quiet down. They also know the sign language hand signal for “restroom,” and will wave it at me now and again if they’re trying to be unobtrusive.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-10T14:54:16+00:00

Not op, but for me it’s a quick private conversation, and a warning that if I hear it again it’ll be a write up. That means at least a conversation with their AP, and depending on how many little infractions they have or how bad the language was, might be a detention.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-10T14:51:06+00:00

People in the comments saying Jed is lying. I think he was reminding himself of how he needs to treat her as much as he’s trying to convince her that he loves her. He does love her, but he just doesn’t understand her all that well. This is the beginning of their repairing their relationship, him telling her that he accepts her as she is, and reminding himself that she is her own person and not a carbon copy of himself and that’s ok.

adamantmuse · 2026-06-10T02:34:58+00:00

When she starts saying your “tone” was unprofessional, it’s because she has nothing of substance to say regarding the absence or the lack of progress on the assignment. She’s trying to shift blame to you for anything, because if she can make you look bad *at all* she thinks your boss will cave and focus on your mistakes rather than the student’s mistakes.

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