This blog is a gathering of everything useful or worth commenting on that I may come across during my student teaching semester. After successfully completing my college’s education classes, I get to see what the reality of the teaching world is. So far the two are nothing alike.
By the way… I am in a seventh grade Civics classroom.
Teachers do NOT know how to speak concisely. My Cooperating Teacher described teacher work week meetings correctly as “marathon meetings”. From our meetings it seemed like teachers did not know how to summarize material and output only necessary information.
One of our meetings took so long the Principal had to cut it short, and schedule time the next morning to finish meeting with everyone again. The next morning was FRIDAY, after a long week and still so much to do no one can afford to have an unscheduled meeting added.
Teachers gossip ALL of the time. I am thinking this may be due to the fact that teaching is a female dominant career. Our middle school has only ONE male teacher in the seventh grade. Now, I have been trying to be more conscious of what gossip is, and how to avoid it. Thus, on my first day when it became clear that my teacher was BFF with the teacher gossip queen, I knew my quest to not gossip was going to be hard.
There is a difference between talking to another teacher about a student to figure out behavior issues and talking about another teacher or student without good intentions. My goal is not to gossip just to fit in with my new environment.
Is sooo long! I never realized how much needed to be done before the first day of school. By Friday I was exhausted and ready for a four day weekend thanks to Labor Day!
Things that categorized teacher work week:
1. Long meetings
2. Long days
3. Long meetings
