MillionMills
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I've always been scared to be a teacher cuz I wouldn't want to teach kids like myself
My wife teaches middle schoolers at a charter school. I don't think I would have the patience to work with kids. I don't know how she does it cause she's easily irritated by everything.
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I'm getting certified for 7-12.I'm not a real teacher yet. I just work as a sub. But I haven't faced any challenges to be honest. I love the kids and I love educating the youth. I guess one thing I had to switch up is how relatable I am to them. I mean I'm young and you know how little kids look at young teachers calling me "Mr. Cool" and "Best teacher ever"
Sometimes I can be a little too friendly with em. So nowadays I make sure I stay stern. But the most important aspect for me is I don't act like a sub. When I walk in the classroom I make sure they know I am the legit teacher and not a sub. It runs very smoothly for me. I do middle school btw.
I tried kindergarten one time and it was. Crying and poop. Constant nagging and snotty noses. Threw that to the bushes quick. High school kids are just boring. So middle school is the most fun and rewarding
Subbing sounds like a nightmare to me. Takes me back to my high school days dudes giving absent dudes names to cut class, paper balls, fights breaking out.
I can start subbing by next year. They're offering me $100 a day.
Not for me. Its a very enjoyable experience. I've already had teachers ask me to apply at their respective schools once I complete my degree.I'm getting certified for 7-12.
Subbing sounds like a nightmare to me. Takes me back to my high school days dudes giving absent dudes names to cut class, paper balls, fights breaking out.
I can start subbing by next year. They're offering me $100 a day.
m0rninggl0ry
All Star
m0rninggl0ry
All Star
ISO
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New York
Thought about teaching that since I was naturally good at it but there's too much bullshyt in the history textbooks.
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How do you go about it?
As I got older I realized how white washed history was and it turned me off to it for the state exams kids need to know that bullshyt and pretend it's reality.
Well, ultimately you are working for the government, so you can't go too far off the reservation and be on some 9/11 truther shyt.
But, the reality is that memorizing content isn't learning. I love history and don't remember a damn thing I learned in high school. Hell, I hardly learned anything from my B.A. in history. My point is, it's the skills of history that should be taught. Those are what last. So, reading about history from a variety of sources, being critical of those sources, drawing conclusions from the synthesis of the evidence in those sources, and communicating those conclusions verbally or through writing. That's the emphasis (i.e. - skill based instruction). If you think about it, that's exactly what's missing from the national political dialogue. Anyway, I digress.
As for content, it's really just big ideas, and some specifics to highlight those ideas. At best, you'll be lucky if even the most motivated kids remember anything more than the big ideas by the following year. So, take something controversial...19th century European Imperialism. We might start with Kipling's "White Man's Burden" and Labouchere's "Brown Man's Burden", and as many excerpts from primary accounts as I can find. I just searched quick, but something like this is pretty basic. Its just as important for them to draw a thoughtful conclusion than it is for them to necessarily remember it....because they wont. But, if they arrive upon it on their own, they're more likely to. And, more importantly, they can repeat that process in the future to learn whatever they want in a responsible manner.
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My sister teaches I think 4th-8th (maybe as young as 2nd grade). Been doing it for I think 2-3 years now. It's in them rough Englewood schools, but she's a huge part of their turn around program. I'm proud of her cause she's got to have a lot of tolerance to do it. After saying that I was suggested to work with special needs kids or kids at Pace (out here thats where kids go when they get kicked out) I don't have that tolerance at all that my sister does.
I have a passion to see kids excel, I always want to be sure kids have what they need. Maybe one summer I'll work at a summer camp or something. Or maybe at a boys & girls club.
I have a passion to see kids excel, I always want to be sure kids have what they need. Maybe one summer I'll work at a summer camp or something. Or maybe at a boys & girls club.
ISO
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Englewood, Chicago
That's good to hear and those kids need it the most. From experience kids really start veering off the summer between 6th and 7th grade. Those are very important years.
