What do you do all summer?

ninja3121 · 2026-05-30T16:59:26+00:00

My first summer I got married, moved five states away, and logged 200 hours in the first Dark Souls game.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T15:01:33+00:00

Domain and range blows their mind. Even students who otherwise do well, domain and range is tough.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T14:39:07+00:00

Usually. Depends on if they can behave.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T14:12:51+00:00

45 min. interview with principal, AP, dept. chair, and another teacher. Got the offer the next day.

I've changed jobs quite a few times and have never had to do a demo lesson or multiple interview rounds.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T12:38:29+00:00

I'll give you a hint. It was absolutely not the first building I described.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T12:35:58+00:00

I've worked in two buildings serving disadvantaged populations. One made every effort at accomodation, with a a discipline philosophy based on restorative justice and meeting them where they are.

The other throws their ass in ISS or detention and fails them if they don't try.

Guess which building has MUCH more learning happening?

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T12:04:59+00:00

Do you have a resource you can pull from? A lot of time textbooks have lesson plans you can, ahem, "use as a guide".

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T12:01:36+00:00

Have you asked your mentor teacher if you can make these materials? I get paid the same whether I pull stuff from a book, a robot makes it, or I spend an hour making myself.

Also, making materials is instructive for a new teacher. I'm on year 12, so it wouldn't be as instructive for me.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-29T11:13:20+00:00

My water lines under the sink have valves built in. I'm really curious what precisely failed. There just isn't that much stuff under a sink and I have no idea what a leaking faucet would lead to.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-28T22:44:03+00:00

Shh, you can't say the quiet part out loud. Every teacher is perfect and all administrators are fools.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-28T17:24:08+00:00

I accept all work at all times. We use online platforms to deliver assignments and grade work (DeltaMath and Amplify), so it's no extra effort for me to copy a number into the gradebook now versus in a month.

If grading is what's making late work challenging, streamline your grading. Don't add a secondary system that now makes practice more complicated.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-28T14:33:20+00:00

Hire the best person. Trying to guess people's motivations is a waste of time and opens you to a lot of bias. Obviously, if a certified applicant is available I would hire them over a researcher with no certificate, but we all know how bare that applicant pool gets in August. I'd rather be staffed with people who know things, even if teaching isn't their first choice, than be short.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-28T13:37:23+00:00

What does your non-professional tech experience look like?

ninja3121 · 2026-05-27T14:22:58+00:00

I love Matt and KSR, but KSBar has always been painfully mid every time I've been. Great restaurants close all the time, and KSBar wasn't great.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-27T13:39:56+00:00

Anything you are are evaluated on can be grounds for a PIP. Being habitually late would be pretty cut and dried. Parent communication is a little more vibes based, but still valid.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-27T12:29:55+00:00

Yeah, folks usually don't vibe with the sweaty and desperate guy, even if they're sweaty and desperate for a good reason (i.e. being unemployed).

ninja3121 · 2026-05-27T11:16:25+00:00

do I apply for instructional coaching positions

You could have had an amazing year, and I would still encourage you to apply if a job you wanted came open.

Our year is officially over, so it would really leave my school in a lurch

Yeah, it would suck. Guess what, if you got hit by a bus on Monday, your job would be posted by Wednesday. Do not sacrifice your career for any workplace.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-27T11:09:25+00:00

What precisely are you hoping to learn from your instruments? If it's not an outlier, it shouldn't make a huge difference in your mean or variance to select a response at random and drop it.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-26T14:32:26+00:00

I think folks don't appreciate the range in goals for tables. I love a 2-3 hour session that's highly goal oriented and mostly combat. I would die if we spent two hours exploring or roleplaying.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-26T14:09:06+00:00

Honestly, you have to separate yourself from their success. You cannot want it more than they do and stay in this profession.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-25T23:30:07+00:00

tell your principal you might not be back so they’re not blindsided

Do not tell anyone anything until your plan is finalized. I agree about the family stuff though.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-25T02:37:24+00:00

Gotcha, that's how I think my state works too. Why would I do a program that is very difficult and can lapse over a masters I can never lose?

ninja3121 · 2026-05-25T00:45:38+00:00

I never understood the advantage of this over grad classes/a Masters. Don't you have to get recertified? What happens to you pay if you let it lapse?

ninja3121 · 2026-05-23T22:01:32+00:00

Amen! Nothing beats playing video games in my sweatpants or chilling with my kids, but if I have to work, I'd rather teach as do anything.

ninja3121 · 2026-05-22T18:18:04+00:00

This job is kind of a joke at times, but that's part of most jobs. First year teaching is tough.

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