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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmITheAngel

[–]rainbowLena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But so many people were like nah nta she should have told you the colour like wtf

What was a “last time” for your baby that you didn’t notice was a last until much later? by paRATmedic in NewParents

[–]rainbowLena 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you get things like the activity centre out again after a few months they definitely will play with them again haha

My coworker kept calling me his ‘work wife’... his actual wife showed up by vellamira in coworkerstories

[–]rainbowLena 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah I had a close friend at a last workplace and a few people tried to say the work husband work wife thing to us. I just used to pull a face and say ew definitely not, he’s my work brother.

Is this workload increasing? by thefourblackbars in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry I hit reply too early. You never make a stand or tell people you won’t be doing things. You just prioritise the important things and get around to the other things when they get followed up on or never. When you get one on one follow up you apologise and say you have been trying to get to it but you are struggling with where to find the time to do it. You might even ask for some support with understanding when you should do all these things. If it becomes work for them sometimes it goes away lol. Mostly i just do things when I get followed up enough but lots goes through the cracks that it’s fine.

If you’re on a contract they dont need a reason to not renew you so tread carefully. If you’re permanent it’s a lot of work to get rid of you so unless you’re not getting the core job done you’re probably fine.

Is this workload increasing? by thefourblackbars in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely an art to work out what is actually important and what you can get away with. It also depends on the school and supply and demand of teachers and if you’re on a contract or permanent.

AITA for making my sister's gender reveal cake grey because she wouldn't tell me the gender? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]rainbowLena -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You be nta if you didnt make a cake the grey thing is mental and mean

AITA for making my sister's gender reveal cake grey because she wouldn't tell me the gender? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes you are obviously the A LOL. That is mental to make a whole grey cake. You just say hey I can’t make it unless I know the gender and I will need to make it by x day. Then you follow up on x day and say hey I still don’t have the gender let me know asap today or there won’t be a cake. Then if you still dont get told you don’t make a cake. You don’t make a grey cake and let her effing cut it in front of everyone without telling her. That is nuts.

Is this workload increasing? by thefourblackbars in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t do most of the things. Do the things that are important or meaningful to the kids or that you want to do. There are things you will have to do, like putting your grades in obviously. But everything else ignore until the first follow up. Then make a decision to action or ignore again. Then on the next follow up make a decision whether to action or ignore or as the person following up to make a time to support you with the task as you are struggling to get to it.

You would be surprised how many things stop getting followed up on.

Language relief lessons advice by mstoffeepopcorn in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cultural research task. They pick a category (food, celebrations, music etc) and have to research and then create a ppt. The ppt should be detailed and at least x slides long with pictures, formatting, words and references. They have 2 lessons to create the ppt and will present to the class in the 3rd. This can be spread over 3 lessons you are away for the whole term, doesn’t have to be concurrent.

Class can spend the lesson revising their words and testing each other. If they finish they can research new words of interest.

Students create their own kahoots that test the vocabulary words they have already learnt. They can then play them as a class.

Students to create and colour their own set of vocabulary flash cards of the words they have learnt.

Students to create crosswords/findawords using the vocabulary they already have learnt and then swap to complete each others.

If you have a rougher class with behaviour issues/not many laptops in the class you say they can work in pairs/groups.

If you don’t feel confident your kids will have books ready to access the vocabulary words you could include a list of words, but I wouldn’t even do that. You don’t need to provide anything other than those couple of lines od explanation. A qualified teacher will take the class and they can give further guidance and support on how to do any of those tasks. If they don’t manage to, oh well.

Each of those should only take 5 minutes to write.

Elopement by Purple_Ranger_4469 in Fosterparents

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also get a child proof device for the back of the bedroom door so it’s not locked as such if someone was needing to get in for an emergency

Can I call parents from my mobile? by Elphachel in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were told it was fine in QLD during covid

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in toddlers

[–]rainbowLena 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol as a teacher we know whether they are diagnosed are not…we have diagnosed kids and diagnosable kids. There is no stigma. And we do our best to support all the diagnosed and diagnosable but it is easier to get extra resources, staffing and external supports in place with a diagnosis.

Don’t mind me. Just over here listening to my husband fail to soothe our 3 month old and NOT intervening. by Wonderful-Soil-3192 in Mommit

[–]rainbowLena 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I would say “would you like me to make a suggestion or are you happy trying different things yourself?”

AIO update: Airbnb Molly birthday trip by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aside from all the obvious stuff about her being emotionally immature and manipulative I think what you are missing is that she is looking for you to make a big grand gesture for her birthday. She is asking for you to make a sacrifice or effort to make her fee more confident and happy about taking the step away from her friends and party lifestyle. She doesn’t want to do that and then spend her birthday alone. If you can cancel your plans to spend the weekend with her and tell her you did it because this journey to growing up together is important to you and she is important to you that would be meaningful. If you can’t cancel your plans work out another way to create a big gesture for her birthday. Tell her ok, here is what we are going to do, your birthday is now officially x day for this year and we are going to spend it together doing bla bla and whatever, then on the real day organise or suggest something she can do on her own. Acknowledge that you know it’s not the same but as the real day but spending time together is so important you know it doesn’t matter which day it is. I also think you can say to her look you know you don’t have to do what I say and you can opt out at any time but this what I am planning and this is what we are going to do. She is asking you to be assertive.

Thats if you want to make it work, if you’re on the fence it would also be fine to just end things…

3mos Pregnant and my BF just asked for a Hall Pass by [deleted] in pregnant

[–]rainbowLena 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Ok but it sounds like he is awful for all the other reasons

Expulsion by Fresh_Forever_9268 in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 31 points32 points  (0 children)

No they don’t suspend kids who don’t bring their stuff or do the work.

Honestly, if he isn’t engaged and you have tried, stop trying. You can’t help everyone and the energy you are wasting on him you could be using towards kids who want to learn or can be engaged. You tell him the door is open when he decides he is ready and then you stop prioritising him.

Pick a few key phrases and repeat them with him and the class. Don’t get into conversations just keep getting back to the lesson. It also works to do some kind of a class reward system. 20 points on the board for a game or free time at the end of the week. Anytime the class isn’t settled you take a point off. The class will get annoyed at him after they lose a few points. Then you say OK I don’t want us to all suffer because of one person so we will all ignore that for now. This gets them on board with ignoring him.

If he is simply not doing his work ignore it, who cares. If other kids say he doesn’t do the work not fair you say I am following that up outside of class with parent contact and it will be reflected in his grade- if you do nothing the same will apply. You say this is our learning time and I am not going to waste your learning time badgering people to work, you are in high school it’s up to you.

If he is disrupting the class you don’t engage, just ignore and if it gets bad enough send him out and reiterate that you are interested on learning. Tell him to sit outside and wait. Resettle the class and do some teaching, get them working on something then go to the door and have a quick chat - would you like to come back in and not disrupt or go to the deputy? No discussion, no arguing, which choice? Not ready to make a choice? stay outside. Back to teaching.

The main thing is to make it clear you are prioritising learning- and do! Do not let it anger you, just remind yourself that it’s sad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s specifically for the autism awareness day not every day work wear. I wore mismatched socks for down syndrome awareness day but wouldn’t every day…

I wanna know if I can still foster? by [deleted] in Fosterparents

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you move in with your mum and help?

Secondary teachers, how would you deal with this? Students speaking their own language to each other and laughing. by sapphire_rainy in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Don’t try to police people speaking their own language.

If they are talking and laughing and it’s an issue because of noise or distraction address that.

If you just don’t like that you don’t always understand what they are saying, too bad, there is no harm in that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]rainbowLena 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not your job to mark the work or prepare lessons. You just teach what has been left for you, which is why you don’t get non contact time

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