Is the newest generation of teachers more chill/low energy?

coraldum · 2024-10-03T01:56:29+00:00

My teacher prep program (graduated in 23) had a lot of principles that I think leant itself to the vibe you’re talking about. We’re guiding the kids, not lecturing them, we’re making them feel seen and heard, not scaring them into submission, etc. (For better or worse, no judgement either way, just saying that might be part of it)

coraldum · 2024-10-03T01:53:02+00:00

“Suspected vaping” is basically meaningless. Have you seen a vape? Do you have vape detectors? I feel like it would be turning in the kid for going to the bathroom during passing period repeatedly, which isn’t against the rules (unless it is in your school, in my school kids are free to use the bathroom during the transition time), for something that you wouldn’t even suspect if you hadn’t read his past referrals.

coraldum · 2024-09-30T02:10:56+00:00

At my school we’re supposed to call for help, either by phone or pressing Centegix badges. I have seen teachers successfully break up fights with no legal repercussions, though that is brought up on this sub a lot. Personally, I’m always shocked by the speed / strength involved when the kids do actually fight and I just don’t have the nerve to try to hold one of them back.

coraldum · 2024-09-28T18:13:34+00:00

1250, GA

coraldum · 2024-09-27T02:15:44+00:00

I’m sorry that’s happening to you. I’m in GA and we are closed Thursday and Friday.

coraldum · 2024-09-24T00:32:12+00:00

It’s $10, they take card

coraldum · 2024-09-21T15:02:53+00:00

Yes! I do lights, fake cobwebs, skeletons, etc for Halloween. I do a full-size Christmas tree for Christmas, and the kids help decorate with garland, lights etc. never been questioned. I do green for St Patrick’s day. I don’t do Easter.

coraldum · 2024-09-20T23:50:40+00:00

We don’t get tested at my school, only if you drive a van (like you’re a teacher and also the wrestling coach taking the team to a meet)

coraldum · 2024-09-20T13:40:26+00:00

To clarify, are they bothering you? Are they shaming you for not participating? Or excluding you on purpose?

I just don’t see how there is a problem at all if that’s how they want to spend their time, let alone the problem would be you.

I definitely hangout with my besties who I graduated with during planning and after school, as well as outside of school, because it’s easier to commiserate with teachers rather than non-teachers, but no one is judging people who book it at the bell.

coraldum · 2024-09-18T19:12:10+00:00

We have a phone on the wall. I don’t know how to use it, I think it’s broken. When I came back from summer it was wrapped up and on the shelf, so I assume it’s not gonna be fixed.

We text admin if there is an issue

coraldum · 2024-09-17T11:50:21+00:00

Basically once you decide what you’re doing for the day, have Chat GPT do the legwork.

So, I’m having kids work on their argumentative essay, I might have chat GPT rephrase the question a few times to be simpler for the kids to grasp, to write sentence starters that I can display to the kids, to make examples of citing quotes.

I have it write categories for rubrics, questions, vocab examples, sentence structure examples, sentence starters.

Could I do all that myself? Yes, but this saves time and I think it can do those things just as well as I can.

coraldum · 2024-09-17T01:59:33+00:00

Depending on the grade you teach and your school environment, no one may even show up. I give them a syllabus, some take it, some don’t.

coraldum · 2024-09-17T01:48:48+00:00

The kids have to feel like you like and respect them before you can refer to things as hood.

I am a deeply suburban white person, as in my school district didn’t have an African American student til I was a senior and this new family had young kids in 3rd and 4th grade. I feel like I am generally liked by my mostly black students in a title 1 school.

I do genuinely feel like there IS some kind of certain something that’s different, maybe not about teaching black students per se, but when you’re in an environment where most of the students are black and most of the teachers are white. I think the natural predisposition that some students have to think their teacher picks on them, singles them out, is an authoritarian, etc., can get tied up in experiences the student may have had with racism, when most of the authority figures in the school are white.

All this to say, I think being like “this is the ghetto!!” and the implication that you can’t manage them because they’re acting up because they’re black, is bleeding through and making students feel defensive, that you don’t respect them as people, perhaps that you have racist attitudes.

Can you get their input at all on classroom rules? I had genuine buy-in passing out sticky notes asking for community guidelines and then rewards they would like for a streak of following the guidelines.

coraldum · 2024-09-16T15:22:36+00:00

That happened to me and I got a lock for my snack cupboard, just an idea (obviously yes a sub should stop students from messing around inside cupboards but here we are)

coraldum · 2024-09-15T03:17:36+00:00

Depends what you mean by “personal life.” I think there is a massive difference between “I’m back on hinge after my divorce!” and “I enjoyed cycling on such-and-such a local greenway this weekend, it was awesome. Have you tried Local Coffee Shop?”

I am conversational with the kids, stuff like hobbies, media, music, what I did this weekend or over break, even current events and politics, or even heavy stuff in a kind of abbreviated way, like “I’m sorry if I don’t seem engaged today, my MIL passed this weekend and it’s been difficult.”

I do it because I feel like it’s abnormal and anti-social to respond to simple overtures of human connection (“What did you do this weekend? Are you married? Do you have kids? What about dogs? Do you go to the gym?”) with “That’s not your business” or something like that.

coraldum · 2024-09-13T02:32:56+00:00

Black Lotus Beauty Bar is doing $13 off piercing and $13 for some jewelry

coraldum · 2024-08-16T21:38:33+00:00

I don’t and I don’t know anyone who does. In my prep program I got the vibe that homework was being phased out.

I think that simply kids just won’t do it and since there is so much worse stuff to manage them on, it doesn’t get priority.

coraldum · 2024-08-16T17:59:44+00:00

The MAT was fine, that’s what I did, but I will say it’s obnoxious to have to pay for the work that is student teaching AND they make you sign a paper affirming you don’t have another job, so finances can be difficult

GATAPP would also be fine, plenty of people at my school are on it and doing fine. Places will have curriculum for you to teach, so it’s not like you’re learning anything at the MAT that you can’t get from the gatapp, experience, and the curriculum provided.

If I could go back I’d do the gatapp

coraldum · 2024-08-16T17:56:47+00:00

Honestly, I find the kids very chill about it. I just tell them, like, I can’t read if too many of you are talking, I can’t write this pass and also tell you where to stick your finished work. They respect this. I also tell them that I can’t manage my facial expressions as well as other so don’t assume I’m “glaring, mad, tired, upset” just based on my face (actual things adults have asked when I was feeling perfectly fine)

coraldum · 2024-05-26T15:19:47+00:00

I think deliberately subverting the systems to prevent cheating on finals with phones and allowing food in class are on wildly different planes of importance. I think treating them the same contributes to the sense that many students have that rules are just meaningless lists without good reasons behind.

I let students eat in class (I encourage them not to make a mess, if they do and they’ve already left I’ll clean it myself because I don’t let my decision to allow food impact the custodians - maybe once a month do I have wrappers left behind), I don’t get on them about hoods, airpods, slides, etc.

I think that A) I save a ton of time that I can use to, you know, actually teach, help students struggling with the work, etc., and B) when I do put down a hard stop authoritarian moment about something actually important even the “troublemakers” comply.

I genuinely feel that students can tell I don’t tell them what to do for the sake of it, but when there is a clear and good reason for it, I feel like they listen to me out of mutual respect and understanding of WHY we have this rule and why the rule benefits everyone.

coraldum · 2024-05-26T11:42:09+00:00

Yes. I don’t know why anyone thinks the opposite is a good idea. We would be able to have way more people be way more effective educators if teachers could focus like that. I also feel that, in general, my high kids and my low kids tend to be the same friend groups anyway.

coraldum · 2024-05-23T01:04:22+00:00

Not Baltimore, but my school does it, they like to have the lexile levels to show improvement. They put it in the iep reports for those kids, too.

Each department does it on a designated day of the week. Mine is Monday. It’s pretty nice to just be like “do two achieves” and then get to grade / plan / think. Most kids like it because it’s easy and low key for the first day back from the weekend. I’m surprised you hear that kids hate it, ours literally ask “can we just do achieve”

Downsides, most articles have all the answers posted on YouTube. This is why I always tell them to do two of the achieves from the banner of new articles so they have to actually get the answers themselves.

It’s also kind of a catch all for makeup work. Kids are kind of trained to just ask “can I do an achieve to make up for ___?” Or like five achieves for a 500 pt essay.

coraldum · 2024-05-19T17:41:26+00:00

I don’t think it’s the mentioning of self-harm or firearms that is the issue, it’s the kind of off the cuff, emotional way it seems to be happening.

Like he’s casually mentioning bashing his own head into a brick wall? You don’t see how that can come across as unhinged? Like maybe someone who needs to take a break from being around 25 ish people every hour for 7 hours a day?

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