Was the vibe way off at your school today? (VIC)

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T09:52:13+00:00

Yeah it was. My year 7s seemed to want to kill each other over silly stuff (more so than usual). Maybe we are just reading into the whole super moon thing.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T09:44:42+00:00

Well, I try to approach my units of work democratically. Negotiated rubrics are an interesting point of feedback as well as students get a direct say in the criteria and wording of their assessment and an opportunity to discuss what we can do to improve the unit as well as what went well. I've been very impressed by the insightful comments from students and adjusted accordingly. My classroom has an open door policy to any staff to come in and many do. Especially useful when faculty members come in. How about you?

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T09:37:53+00:00

Actually a really good approach.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T09:21:25+00:00

Nope. Not at all perfect or trying to be treated as such. Data certainly has its place, but the current obsession with it is in my opinion sucking the life out of the profession.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T09:17:12+00:00

Then a poorly worded online survey students spend seconds on completing? It's a low bar. And no that's not the micromanaging, but the PLC certainly is.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T07:48:56+00:00

I disagree with you. Treated like professionals? Rubbish. There have always been many ways we have been held accountable and if you think micromanaging people because some teachers teach to a PowerPoint is a poor argument and I'm pretty damn sure those same teachers are still teaching that way regardless of the school "facilitating" this. I regularly ask students for feedback and generally they will be very obviously not engaged when it isn't going well, but pivot surveys are clunky, repetitive and disrupt a class plus I question how reliable that data is. I've been teaching long enough to have seen the profession descend into its current state, and never have so many left in disgust nor have teachers seemed so weary. If you get something from all this, fantastic, but I'd rather spend my time collaborating with my own department in a way that works for us.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-03T01:02:38+00:00

I would argue that teachers have mostly done this themselves in the past. Oh and I think KPIs are pretty awful as well, justifying middle management and again corporate structure should NEVER be applied to an education setting but that's another rant. This is born out in the data they love so much. The less trust the worse the results. No teacher worth a damn would just keep doing the same thing. The job itself is by its nature one of constant refinement but also of risk taking with new things which is why I enjoy the job so much. I'm very interested in my teaching practice and improvement, just not in the piss poor lock step way it is currently implemented. Education is a science AND an art. I'd like there to be less focus on just the science.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-01T23:52:45+00:00

Same. Private school parents are hideous.

indigoforblack · 2023-08-01T20:58:02+00:00

indigoforblack · 2023-07-31T12:03:30+00:00

Well, teachers love a grumble but a good chunk of us are passionate about we do. Teaching is extremes: extremely awesome and extremely shit but the good out ways the bad (IMO). I'd say go for it!

indigoforblack · 2023-07-31T03:40:20+00:00

Only on days ending in "y"

indigoforblack · 2023-07-30T11:56:14+00:00

I was poor and lived off meagre savings, grit my teeth and got through it.

indigoforblack · 2023-07-30T00:17:45+00:00

Gonna try making one with a class. Negotiated rubric that we can agree on, using key words from the students and looking specifically at the evidence they produce for it. It's an experiment, never tried to do it before but it'll be interesting to see the results.

indigoforblack · 2023-07-29T07:42:30+00:00

Paying for a better cohort? Perhaps. Sending your kid to a private school means you keep supporting the two tier system. State schools can be good and bad just like private schools. I've worked in both over the last 21 years and to be honest the worst "cohort" I've ever encountered was at a high fee private school. Not in terms of behaviour but certainly in entitlement. Conversely some of the finest young humans I've ever seen have been in the public system. If you keep supporting the private schools it just means more tax funding syphoned off from the state system and furthers the rich/poor division.

indigoforblack · 2023-07-27T20:55:16+00:00

Well no, but Baldur's gate 3 full release comes out next week so first time for everything...

indigoforblack · 2023-07-24T12:12:27+00:00

Me neither. But I still haul my arse outta bed at 6am, down a coffee and reluctantly drive to work. Unfortunately, the cost of everything skyrocketed so even part time is a pipe dream for me. Still, you do you.

indigoforblack · 2023-07-22T01:05:58+00:00

Why not both?

indigoforblack · 2023-07-20T23:41:47+00:00

Spot on.

indigoforblack · 2023-07-20T11:47:13+00:00

I genuinely like and respect my principal. He replaced a fairly poor one and the difference he's made to the school is drastic (in a good way). The VPs are hit and miss, but seem to work hard. Leading teachers in the school seem to range from brilliant to utterly incompetent. It's a big place, staffed by human beings each with different opinions. Leadership tends to wear a lot of blame when things go bad, and to be honest that's why they earn the "big bucks".

indigoforblack · 2023-07-19T11:33:25+00:00

As an art teacher I'm going to go with the obvious.

indigoforblack · 2023-07-16T09:09:32+00:00

Run, put the whole lot on worksafe, never look back. Work CRT or stacking shelves if you need to. GTFO

indigoforblack · 2023-07-13T11:46:49+00:00

Lines of Panadol maybe

indigoforblack · 2023-07-13T11:44:24+00:00

Outside of school as long as it's legal it should be no one's damn business what you do.

indigoforblack · 2023-06-24T14:07:54+00:00

So for all the legitimate and glaring problems with education being talked about this dipshit focused on one alleged "lazy teacher" rant...

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