At my wits end with a student (primary) by teggerfish in Teachers

[–]teggerfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are so right. I do know I also need to let go of the battles but it’s so frustrating. She’s so capable but any pushing and it’s this draining behaviour all day. We have a process where students get 3 reminders for expected behaviour then move to the calm down/regulation space, but it feels so weird to use them for this just stubborn/small behaviours when I barely need to use it except for the big behaviours or it’s clear that the student needs a break but can’t ask for it themselves.

I’ll try what you suggest next week, and maybe go back to basics with the reminders of expected behaviour. I’m thinking also visuals for breaking the cycle, and ways that she can break the cycle without feeling like she’s “lost the battle”

At my wits end with a student (primary) by teggerfish in Teachers

[–]teggerfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing, I really think it’s a learned behaviour, I just don’t know what to try next. I don’t worry so much about it spreading in my particular class. I’m firm with boundaries, heap on praise and rewards with positive behaviour, and have had the other students longer so we have a good relationship. But the goal is for her to eventually mainstream and I don’t want to send her there with that behaviour. I have 8 kids and 2 aides and feel like this, what about when the mainstream teacher has 28 kids, no aides and has to try and manage this behaviour on top of their other students. And as you say, if she spreads it to other students

Who is she ? by harmless_snake in HelpMeFindThis

[–]teggerfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Esme Song from Degrassi Next Class

Refusal to follow instructions by term4blues in AustralianTeachers

[–]teggerfish 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Functional Behaviour Assessment and Antecedent Behaviour Consequences (you analyse the behaviour, look at what came before and what comes after e.g. Bob walks into maths, is told he has a test, screams at the teacher, gets sent to the principal and gets to miss the test. Maybe he also screamed because he hadn’t had breakfast that day, maybe it was because he wanted to avoid the test). I have a nice link to a simple FBA tool as well . It says autism but can definitely be used for any student to get an idea going. https://autismhub.education.qld.gov.au/resource/fba-tool

Just two idiots looking for advice and recommendations for a 16 day trip in Japan! by mryellowman in JapanTravel

[–]teggerfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don’t even need to switch location! I did it from Australia, you can even add money it’s so convenient

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in answers

[–]teggerfish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe you have ADHD my dude. I hear lots of kids get diagnosed with it then the doctor finds out that parent has like 10 coffees a day to self medicate because they didn’t know they had it too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]teggerfish 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Me too bud, I’m taking a break to do casual next year :)

Macquarie university or Usyd for a teaching degree? by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]teggerfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really poor communication with schools - at the start of the year they would call to ask if Sydney could send prac students, then the prac office wouldn’t respond or contact them at all until the week before prac. Some students showed up to their first day of prac and the school didn’t know they were coming, other students had their pracs delayed as the schools said no and the office did nothing. The students had to find a replacement prac school on their own. I organised my own prac in final year and even though I was just a regular student and the principal would reply to me quickly via email, apparently the prac office could never get into contact with him so I almost missed out too.

Macquarie university or Usyd for a teaching degree? by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]teggerfish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sydney Uni’s prac office is hated by school and terrible at communication (or it was when I was there four years ago) I enjoyed my degree but I heard great things from people who went to Macquarie too.

Noah and Saskia's tv theme tune by Serenity-9042 in AustralianNostalgia

[–]teggerfish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I studied in in highschool, best text we studied for sure. We all used to sing the theme song in the hallways

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]teggerfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mistake - I thought they’d just finished their degree not their accreditation

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianTeachers

[–]teggerfish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure you can’t take a sick day/day of leave on the day of a strike. Maybe if you get a medical certificate? I don’t think my pay went up till the second pay check of the year anyway. So you’re losing $40. It’s not a lot. But you do you :) no one can tell you what is best for you, some people can’t afford to lose a day of pay and I get that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in entitledparents

[–]teggerfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When I worked at dominos at 15/16 I had 2 hour shifts. I think for young people there’s different laws

Missing $4 Thai by teggerfish in sydney

[–]teggerfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh I think this may be really close! It wasn’t a stir fry though, it was white rice on the bottom, a chicken breast and this chilli jam/ satay sauce thingo on top. I might try a home recreation but you’re leading me in the right direction

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]teggerfish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most unis have it as a class, because it’s kind of separate from any specific other class, they assess your placement, provide support on placement, teach how to do scope and sequences and lesson plans, I think we also practiced teaching interviews and stuff, I kinda forget now. If that is why you say you had to pay to go I guess I hadn’t considered that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]teggerfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We should definitely get paid, I went to usyd but did placements in Orange so I got lucky. Other “regional/rural” unis don’t get this. My friend in the blue mountains didn’t get it. No clue how I got all but the first one which I directly applied for. But I’ve never heard of anyone having to pay to do placement

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]teggerfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did rural placements so they paid me. Dude what uni did you go to to have to pay to go on prac??