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Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education, where recently she’s been researching different physical therapy assistant schools and blogging about student life. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.
If your school is like a lot of institutions these days, you have to share resources and probably don’t have much in the way of educational technology. So when you get to spend time in the computer lab or use the interactive whiteboard, it’s usually well-planned and eagerly anticipated. However, if you’ve been teaching long enough to lose greenhorn status, you know about the scourge of the lab – technological failure. Even with the…
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Denise comments:
I am in a teaching program, half way through and I just completed my first to “teaching” classes. Now I have this hugh feeling I’ve made a BIG mistake and that teaching isn’t what I thought it was or that I’m not cut out for it. Not to mention the outlook for finding a job looks bleak. Seems like the writing is on the wall… Problem is I have been a stay at home mom for 13 years and don’t know what else I could do? I really do not want to finish the program because I feel I am wasting my time, my money and my heart isn’t in it anymore. I have always wanted to help…
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I have been asked to participate in the Reform Symposium and will be hosting a session this afternoon called 10 Things I Wish Someone Had Explained Before My First Job. Feel free to join at 4:30EST today. I don’t normally do these online training things, so hopefully this works. Go to the link here.
A lot of these things are topics I’ve covered before, but here is what looks to be the outline for now.
- Get a handle on classroom management early
- Practice selective ignorance
- Don’t argue with students
- The phone is your friend
- Learn from the experience of other teachers
- Ask questions
- When someone offers you advice, try to implement the
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KMB writes:
I’m starting student teaching this Spring and would really like some advice, tips, and resources to help me out. I’m sure 12th graders are very bright, and I don’t want to bore them. I also want to appear knowledgable and professional. Anyway, please contact me if you have any suggestions. Websites with lesson plans, blogs, the latest technology, etc. would all be helpful.
As a middle school band director with limited experience coming up with lesson plans and really has lost touch with edublogs lately, I’m throwing this one out to my readers. Leave links and answers in the comments.
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This guest post is by Jennifer Wilson, who is in her second year as a 2nd grade teacher. She blogs sporadically at her blog Annecdotes.
My mom went back to school full-time when I started college, and we both graduated last year with degrees in Elementary Education.
Despite having 5 years of experience as a special needs paraprofessional and a teaching degree with a high GPA, my mom was stuck substitute teaching last fall. She then switched to a paraprofessional position before finally getting a maternity leave spot. Unfortunately, she’ll be on the job hunt again for this fall.
Meanwhile, I found a teaching position as an Interventionist. I was still compensated as a teacher, but I helped to run a…
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