I worked in American schools for 15 years, in the states and in Taipei. Then two years ago, I decided to try out working for a Taiwanese school. I am completely sold. The interview did include a teaching demo, which caught me off guard, but it was fine. By law, teachers cannot be assigned more than 22 periods per week, each period is 40 minutes. I get 3-5 hours of planning time every day and teach 1.5-3.5 hours per day. I get an 80 minute lunch/rest period ALONE, without having to supervise kids. For the first time in 15 years, I don't have to take any work home, stay late after school, or come in on the weekends. It is AMAZING. There is also a person called the "Teacher Affairs Director" who is basically a personal assistant to all the teachers. He is a liaison between the teachers and parents, orders the supplies and books we request, and arranges all the field trips and events we have ideas to do.
This is so awesome! Question though, do you teach while speaking English or do you have to learn a different language to teach in a different country like that? I’m so interested!!
Schools around the world respect their teachers SO MUCH more than we do. I've traveled a lot over the years and worked in schools in a few countries (as an assistant or helping a relative, not as a teacher) and spoken to friends in multiple other countries and from every thing I've learned, we are the only ones who don't realize that our teachers are literally training our future! That is one of the most important jobs there is! I knew I wanted to work with children but I just couldn't be a teacher, so I got my ECE and minored in child psych and opened a daycare. Because I really just couldn't do what they do.
@@Clair1028 Yes, I teach in English. English is pretty prevalent in Taiwan. If you get a job with an international school in a country outside your home country, it can be a really rewarding experience!
I taught in Beijing at a Bilingual Kindergarten that incorporated Montessori. I actively taught students until 10:50 am. Then they went to PE and their afternoon was in Chinese. I was able to plan, develop curriculum, meet with struggling students, provide more for advanced students, collaborate with other teachers, etc. ❤️
I would like to hear a whole podcast of what teaching is like over in England!…. I like hearing the difference between the different countries about teaching I found it interesting
I was a teacher for1 year. It was a disaster. I have a Crohn’s disease and needed emergency surgery the first month of school and got zero support from my small parochial school. They threw in three sped kiddos (autism, parents changing meds daily) and the autism mom taught kinder at the same school. Felt th3 need to barge in whenever. They expected me to just make it work. I made myself so sick worrying I ended up taking short term disability and my contract wasn’t renewed. I am now happily a financial counselor for a well known cancer center so it all worked out, but what a freaking nightmare. To top It off,my student teaching mentor told me the last semester “maybe you shouldn’t be a teacher…you know, because you are partial,y deaf and cp. . I was dumbfounded. Screw you Oregon education system. Why mess with candidates and lower their confidence?p
The teachers still don't give a crap for your mental health, my friend was called *mentally ill* by our French teacher in year 7. Only our performing arts teachers cared ngl But different schools work differently, less brutal bullying but if you are bullied, they won't do anything especially if you're another race but white The higher the set you're in, the more discipline and pressure they'll put on you with expectations etc (but I think everyone faces that)
This one is random, but as a high school teacher I wish we would have been taught how to write letters of recommendation!!! I get awesome kids asking me for letters because we have good rapport, but I hesitate because I'm not confident writing them.
I feel like general stuff like saying they’re hard working, enthusiastic, etc, and then just a personal note! A lot of school admissions seem to really just want to see that good rapport, imo
I think about this way too often. I‘ve been asking for letters of recommendation since middle school just to TRY OUT for cheerleading. like what the hell are they gonna recommend? I can do a cartwheel well? no
My senior year in college we were asked, "what would you change about the schools education program to improve it?" My answer was require a class that has students become a Substitue Teacher. This would: -help with the sub teacher shortage -allow college students to gain confidence in teaching a class without another teacher present -build relationships between future teachers and local schools -allows college students to interact with more teachers and pick up skills
This is an amazing idea! It would also weed out the teachers that come in the first year and realize they are not cut out for the job. That being said, I subbed prek-12 and even alternative school (where kids had juvi records) while I was working on my degree for exactly these reasons: to get experience, see what level I was best in, and to network. It’s crazy how many aspiring teachers don’t think to do this. I will say it still did not prepare me for the onslaught that being a teacher brings. The workload and the hours shocked me to the core and I came into teaching after giving up a long career in corporate America.
I love this idea. I'm not a school teacher but have considered it for the future. It's crazy to me that a sub just needs to do a couple trainings and they are able to be left alone with kids and do lesson plans and whatnot with most of them.
@@majica26 I did this too and am forever grateful that my friend at the time told me I didn’t need my degree to do this. That’s what had held me back prior but it’s been the best choice I made in college. Not only did I make bang for my area at the time, it helped me gain SO much confidence with kids and being in the school environment as a professional. Highly recommend if you have a few days you can dedicate to this. I did this mostly during online classes my last semester/year during Covid.
Did anybody else notice Mr Thomas kind of come out of his shell in this podcast. In the others he didn’t really talk as much so it’s great to see him becoming more comfortable.
They should teach a law class on what you’re allowed to do legally. We had teachers put in ‘teacher jail’ because they sat together on a field trip bus. No one told them that it isn’t allowed.
I just finished high school and we actually got to have a personal finance class this year to take the place of our math period. It was amazing and it provided so many practical life skills that we knew nothing about. I really think every school should have a class like that!
I wish my children had had that as an option! They graduated in 2018, 2020, and 2021, and none of them got anything like that. It’s so frustrating and we did our best to teach them from their first paycheck. I’m glad you had that opportunity.
When my mom started teaching she had an emergency credential, and they hired her to teach in a program specifically for emotionally disturbed students in high school. She was working towards 2 credentials, 1 for general Ed and one for special Ed. For general Ed she did her student teaching during summer school, for her special Ed student teaching…. She did it in her own classroom. It was crazy. To be fair she probably had the best ED program and she worked so well with those kids specifically. I was also her assistant many times while in that classroom (I was subbing and we had different names so most didn’t put 2 and 2 together).
I'm a student, and every year I do this: Every day after school, I write a note to all of my teachers. They each get their own. At the end of the year, I get x amount(however many teachers I have) of boxes and put all the notes in them
Im german, english is my 2nd language. So i moved to America in 2nd grade, i already spoke a little english because we had known we would move for a couple years. So i wasnt entirely fluent, so every now and then i wouldnt know a word and i would ask and my teacher would yell at me for not knowing the word, so i stopped asking. In 3rd grade i was really confused by a word and my teacher saw. She actually cared and sat with me the rest of the test and helped me with words. That night when i went home i CRIED and CRIED. I know thats something that would be considered normal for a teacher to do, but it brought my grades from D's and C's to all A's, it just so much
I wish I had learned more about policies, laws, and my rights as a teacher. I am so grateful that WVEA (the union) is strong in my county. I see the way admin walk all over teachers that don't know any better and it is really awful. I also wish we were taught not only classroom managment 101, but advanced master class level classroom managment. I wish we were taught advanced communication as well. When I have student teachers, I try to build them up and support them, but I also want them to see the great and challenging sides of what we do. I think people either run the profession down with all the negatives and scare new teachers away, or they only show the good idealistic parts and that sets them up for failure. You have to get both because that is the real experience.
As I get older, I’ve learned that college courses we were forced to take to graduate, didn’t do much to help us. They just exist to make money off students, even the courses meant for teachers aren’t that helpful.
I would love to watch an episode where y’all talk about student and teacher dress code with ridiculous experiences y’all may have had as students or as teachers!!
My program in college really prepped me for the paperwork (lesson planning + material creating) but did little to nothing to prep me for classroom management. I graduated in May and have been subbing for the rest of the school year. I've learned more this past month than I had my entire semester student teaching. Another thing no one talks about is how much work student teaching is (I'll use almost nothing I did in student teaching as a full time teacher). I'm from CT and they require all teacher candidates to complete EdTPA (an assessment of teaching using 15 rubrics). I really pushed myself hard throughout college to get a 4.0 so by the time I was student teaching I was extremely burnt out. I felt guilty my entire time student teaching because I wasnt teaching as well as I could have; I put most of my time into the EdTPA assessment so I wasn't focused on the day to day of my students, materials, supports, ect. as I should have been. I feel guilty even admitting it, but student teaching felt like a waste of time. I just worked to meet assessment requirements and did not get what I wanted to get out of my time in the classroom. I did very well on the assessment but now its over and I feel unprepared for my own classroom. I accepted a job in a very difficult school and district (with plans to transfer to my dream school within the district once I get my masters in a few years). I'm worried that I'm not ready to handle whats gonna be thrown my way. :/
That's so awesome. You're getting multiple perspectives and thats great. I have absolutely no skin in this game: no kids, not a teacher or a student, just want to know what other's go through. #buildingempathy
yeah I love to see how the teachers feel I always know they are under stress so when I hear there stories I instantly feel more respect for my teachers.
So excited when I see your podcast drop! *Hey, Mrs. Rogers* _, _*_your Dominos pizza guy video was extremely scary and extremely serious_*_ ,_ and I hope very much that you took it that way by calling the police, installing cameras around your house, etc, because that wasn’t just your basic stalker, that was some next level scary stuff. So I really hope you’re keeping yourself safe. We love you!!!💙
I might have had a really good and dedicated economics teacher during senior year of high school, cuz I %100 feel like I learn a bunch of does financial things during that class, like 401k and taxes and paycheck deductibles and all does different options, makes me feel weird that possibly not everyone gets the same education even though we all go through the same system 🤦🏼♀️! I absolutely love listening to you guys and learning more about the world through you ❤
I just want to say thank you guys so much for all this information!! I love hearing all your experiences in the teaching career. I am currently an undergrad elementary ed and I graduate next year so I have so many questions about what I’m in store for. I noticed a lot of the topics you guys discuss a lot of the time in the teaching program they don’t mention any of this or prepare us. I really wish the program would have teachers like you guys come in and share your experiences, give us helpful tips
I absolutely LOVED my "teaching math in elementary" or whatever it was called. I learned so much and use so much of it. It was really showing not what to think but how to. The teacher was absolutely amazing
As someone who just graduated and now is working towards a sub permit before going into a cred program. I just know for a fact classroom management is a big one. I would love to know more about why they make the lesson plans so unreasonably long when in undergrad? Mr. Thomas' UK school with basically a google drive that has all the levels in one sounds amazing and I believe it would take the right school and the right person to make it a reality.
This year was my fifth year teaching high school mathematics. Classroom management is something that needs be taught better. That being said there is no one size fits all management practice. Every one of my six classes is different and cannot be “managed” with one practice style. Another thing I wish we had learned more about is extracurricular activities sponsoring, and the pressure to do so. I have coached soccer with zero experience and now (22-23) I’m the head Pom (spirit/dance) Squad sponsor again with zero experience. I do it because enjoy watching my students doing what they love. I did volunteer for both (not at the same time) but I wish there had been a class on athletic rules, managing expenses, etc.
Dang, when I was growing up I always had thought of like being a teacher but like realizing up to this point like I didn't want to become one because like I know because of the stories all the teachers had said here that made me think like I don't really want to pick up a teacher because I can't handle it!!
We actually had something kind of similar happen when I was in high school. The student teacher for my English teacher ended up teaching our class until the end of the year as a long term sub and they pretty much modified her ending requirements to graduate. Though the circumstances were a bit different because she was replacing her cooperating teacher who had tragically passed in a auto accident
I loved a ton of stuff about my teacher preparation program, and was so lucky to get the cooperating teacher I got. She is, to this day, one of the best teachers I have ever worked with. From what I understand, though, my program was unusual in that we did a year-long student teaching placement at one school instead of just 6-10 weeks. It was really valuable to see and experience an entire school year. I do wish I would have had more support and training around differentiation for students receiving SpEd services and training around parent communication. Those were two areas I definitely felt like I was lacking in at first.
I love their intro and their whole vibe in general. It’s so funny to listen to and interesting to hear story’s lol. I love this podcast and if your new to it I hope you’ll love it too. ❤️
I am about to finish my first year as a teacher so I was relating to this so much. Talking to both my department head(math) and our principal they said in their 30 years in education this is the hardest year they have ever seen across the board... well I survived it haha 😄
I love you guys! It’s good for my mental to health to know I’m not alone out here in the jungle lol. Loved all the real talk but wanted to say that analyzing and interpreting data is critical in the classroom. I learned these valuable skills in both the military and later in the civilian sector in my HR career. I did a career change later in life because teaching was and is my dream job. Data analysis has taken me and my students to the next level and then some and I find it incredible that so many teachers have no idea how it works or what is the big deal. I’m actually tasked with training others in my school, but anyway-would love to hear some conversation about its value. Your kiddos deserve for you to be informed. Keep up the great work. You guys are encouraging so many of us out here in the trenches.
I love how honest and candid you all are in your podcast. I generally don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, but I’m going to subscribe to yours. Keep rocking it! And keep being the heroes you are!
Vinny talking about teaching a class during an interview unlocked a memory where a teacher test taught our maths class and just gave us all calculators and told us to get on with it 😂🤦♀️
My college is similar to Becca’s. We changed recently but I’m in the old program where we major in a content area and then a certificate in adolescence education. Adolescent Ed is 5/6-12 depending on content area. You do 2 50hr placements, one in 5-8 and one in 9-12 and then a student teaching placement in one of 3 of areas of choice. You can also just get certified in SpEd with an extra 50hr placement in a SpEd Class and an extra exam. NYS has also got rid of the EdTPA requirement finally.
I love this topic. I’m not a teacher, but I did just recently graduate from an LIS master’s program to become a librarian. And I remember toward the end of this past semester as I was gearing up to graduate, there was an email that was sent out about a new course on how to deal with/ manage information overload…I cannot tell you how much I wish that I had the opportunity to take a class like that during my time in grad school! Professions related to information or information technologies have to constantly be willing to adapt with changes in information, information technology as well as information needs. Educators must fall into that category as well. It feels hard to keep up with all the constant shifts that these fields can experience.
I wish I was taught how to handle difficult behaviors! My classroom is full of kiddos with different types of trauma and they had NO resources! And I was blamed when the kids acted out. I also would have loved to be trained in how to properly use the curriculum the school used. I was thrown in two weeks before school started and was given very little support!
Hello 👋 I’m an elementary special education teacher from rural Iowa. My current school (among many others in the area) required an in-person interview and teaching of a lesson in a classroom.
I love bri’s hair ❤uhghhhhh fresh silk press. I wish I had them as teachers. But with that being said this is a very informative platform from a teachers perspective.
For me I wish I had several classes about special Education in my undergraduate program. I first went to school to be a social studies teacher 6-12 but realized I couldn’t find work and thought why not go back and get a sped masters. Now I’m a special Ed teacher and honestly never thought I would make it through this year
When you spoke about having data and documentation to prove your scores, I felt that! In my school, we have to have a pre conference before the observation, a post conference afterwards with documentation proving how we met the rubric criteria. Same for professionalism...I wrote 4 pages of documentation to prove that I was a professional. Exhausting!!!
My university required all business students (not a teacher) to take a personal financial management course. The professors who designed the course were pushing for it be required for all majors. I was SO grateful for that class!
I teach elementary here in Norway. Our education is for 1-7 grade, 5-10th or one for everything higher. I am starting to realize our system is a lot better them most out there, but one thing i missed was Sped. I had no idea how to make an IEP when I started.
I wish what I was taught in school before going into preschool is other methods of theory other than play and Reggio, when I was in my first Montessori school, I fell in love with the theory but classes like “creating the environment” was geared towards a play based environment.
I am an actuarial consultant for retirement plans and I didn’t even know much about them when I graduated college (with a double major in math and actuarial science). Retirement plans are pretty confusing, especially contributory plans (401k, 403b, state pension plans, etc.). I experienced the same feelings when I first started and had to set up my own benefits.
I'm student teaching in central Texas right now. Y'all are listing off classes I took or things that were/are being taught to us now so at least it's looking up. haha We literally just went over the acronyms last week in our monthly seminar.
This is great guys. I think you guys would get a kick out of my journey as a teacher as well. Some very interesting stuff. Keep up the banter I love it.
Just found this podcast and love it! The energy is absolutely amazing. I'm a 17 years old student and the pressure of adulting is getting to me. Can I make a suggestion for a topic of a podcast? About what early adults should know or the skills needed to do well as an adult
Hilarious with the acronyms. I am NOT an educator but worked 28 years building and testing rocket motors (Mechanical Engineering degree). In my first 3 months, I started writing down acronyms that I did not understand at all. The list was over 100. One year later, I spoke and understood the jargon like a professional. It took another 5 years to actually know what was going on. My last few years was being a mentor for people. My personal goal was to get them on board faster than I did.
Actually the district i work for in Nj does makes us do a demo lesson as the interview process and is a low income district. I was so nervous. I taught a genetics lesson to a 7th grade class while 2 VPs observed me then right after met with one of them to discuss how the lesson went.
When I got my job, I taught an ELL math class. I had zero classes on how to modify for ELL students. I teach high school math. I knew nothing about teaching English. I went to get my certificate so that I could understand how to teach my students better.
Vinny, I am in a similar situation. Came to the US with a PGCE...BUT I got them to do the equivalency to a graduate with Masters! Got a full time HS job for next year and you are so right about the new teachers getting the more difficult schools....which is where they should concentrate the more experienced teachers really....weird... Drop me a note if you want to learn how to get your PGCE evaluation fixed 👍
Big fan of the podcast! Thank you for all the awareness you are bringing to our field :) As a music teacher, I'd love to hear about your point of view of electives or specials in schools like music, art, PE, etc. I'm slightly biased towards kids taking more electives (obvi as a high school music teacher) but I know that there are a lot of opinions surrounding these classes. For example, back when I was an elementary school teacher (we get certified K-12) kids can get very excited during class and be returned o class that way! (sorry) What are things you wish elective teachers knew about what you do and what do you wish you knew about elective teachers? If anyone has questions on elective teacher problems, please ask... I know too many! Even though we can all say we love our jobs, it is far from perfect!
When I was in school we had a class called “Life Skills” Everything from how to fill out a bank deposit slip and write a check also all the different kinds of check pros and cons of each . We studied about different kinds of medical and life insurance . How to make a business phone call and answer a business call How to deal with companies as a private person. How to get utilities connected and or disconnected. Different types of retirement plans etc.. Everyone was required to take this class freshman year, just in case you dropped out or transferred you could get by out there. That was how it really was when I was 15 years old (60 years ago). I
We had a math for teachers which was a piece of cake for me as I was a math minor. I also remember taking such an intense CPR class with these tapes that came out of the dummy and measured compressions and it was so hard I passed out. I also had a horrible master teacher who wouldn't let me use her copy code, so I had to pay for my copies at office max. She said I had to drink coffee as all teachers did. She criticized everything. I got a haircut and she said she was glad, because I now looked like a grown up. She told me I made the other teacher's uncomfortable because I was quiet so I quit going to the teacher's lounge. She even wanted me to miss my only sibling's wedding, even though it was one day and I told her when I met her in the summer and she said it was no big deal. At the time I was only teaching spelling. She was so angry when it happened despite 3 reminders and so she made me teach three extra days of everything and I missed my school's Fall break. She also decided to split two reading groups into 7 and the same with spelling groups. I wrote about 35 lesson plans each night and never slept. I almost quit. She didn't give me anything ay the end even though I gave her a nice gift. At the end of it, I gave her a horrible review and found out the university near us no longer used her and my professor said he gave me her because he thought I needed a challenge. I was her last student.
When they were talking about the "double major", that's exactly what happened to me. I got a math degree, on top of a teacher of ed degree, but because it was all undergrad, they didn't count it as a full double major. Super frustrating. But, I got my degree in 2008. Even then, there weren't things like teacher pay teachers or many other teacher resources. My favorite class was my Math Methods class, because it was actual development and presentation of lessons that may really apply. Unfortunately I literally had a professor say (when she was asked about discipline and classroom management) that if our lesson plans were flushed out and we keep our classroom on point, we won't have problems!! Like seriously? We never got any type of management (time, structure, classroom, etc). Nothing practical. Thankfully, I was subbing the last 2 years of my degree, so I was very aware of actual classroom applications. I finally am teaching at a school that started any new to school teacher in a discipline program that works well. Thankful for that.
I recently finished my credential program and my Masters concurrently and it was crap. I don't feel like I learned anything about actually teaching! Half of my student teaching was a nightmare with a really discouraging master teacher who literally bullied me and the other half was with a really great master teacher but it was during the pandemic and was completely online. I feel so unprepared for teaching! I have been subbing for the last few months and that has given me more actual experience in actual classrooms but it is still not the same as having your own class! I love this podcast but tbh it also scares the bejesus out of me!
With the story about having to prove standards,I haven't had to do it but when I was student teaching my cooperating teacher did have to make a portfolio with artifacts of the different standards.
You guys have made remember a memory where in 6th grade I went to this school since I was 5 but I homeschooling 1 year to try it out so I didn't know these kids, and my 1st hour math teacher had us organize us by age but we had 5 minutes. I didn't realize at the time but I made a lot of new friends bc of that moment
Honestly they should make it madndatory that highschoolers take a personal financing class...I was lucky to have grandparents who taught me about financing from a young age but not everyone has that. It needs to be mandatory because people have no idea what they're doing when applying for loans, budgeting, they dont know how to properly take care of their finances which makes them easy to take advantage of. Another issue is many people don't even know how to write a resume or know the proper etiquette of job interviews, they should be taught about those things as well.
I dropped out about a year ago but our education program was wild. It was a 5 year double major and they expect so much from us. Most of our professors either didn’t care or had no idea where the program was going or what we needed. I had 3 separate advisors for my edu degree, my major and my minor. Tell me why I was taking the hardest chemistry class offered for a chemistry minor? But a physics minor wasn’t offered even though they are all certified separately in my state. We also had a class on teaching to special needs and required that we write a resource guide to teaching to special needs that was a minimum of 64 pages while actively in a classroom for observations with almost no assistance. Our professor mostly taught at a local school and just happened to have a PhD so he could teach at our university.
i don’t understand why these episodes of a podcast are only 30 min long? i LOVE listening to each of them talk so much i feel like their episodes should be at least an 1hr30
I'm a first-year teacher in NYC and it is always so interesting to me how different things are here versus Ohio or North Carolina or Mississippi let alone in the UK. Crazy
I have a double major in special education and elementary education and I am certified to teach preschool- age 21 special education students and K-5 regular elementary students. However, after my first year teaching I decided to switch and work in a school district for students ages 3-21 years old with moderate to severe disabilities. The school uses ABA as their teaching model and almost all of my students were non-speaking or low verbal. We had a few classes during one of our courses about ABA and data collection/management and maybe one or two classes about augmentative communication (that was in 2005 so there wasn’t as much tech back then). I learned everything hands on and thankfully had experience with autism prior to teaching but it was a child I babysat for and at a summer camp. I was also lucky to have spent 2 summers working in the district I now teach in as an aide so I didn’t go in completely blind. That being said other then my sign language course (2 semesters which counted towards my foreign language requirement) I had a handful of classes (not full courses but 2/3 hour classes) that apply to my teaching job now. The only text book I kept and still use is my sign language textbook. I love teaching but I learned more in my first year teaching then I learned through my entire college experience.
I’m going to for my masters degree in education and my license is elementary education but covers K4-9th grade. My capstone project I’m hoping to touch on having a class or some form of internship to work on classroom management. It is tricky because some schools have specific forms of management but I find it crucial for teachers to have it in their tool belt.
I’m going through the same situation as Lauren. I have had overloaded schedules every semester except one the past 2 years and plan to continue that but I will still have to take a 5th year because of how our semesters are set up. One thing I have found funny is my cooperating teacher my first year got genuinely angry at the dress code we had to follow because it is stricter than the dress code the teachers actually have. She went on a 30 minute rant about how it was deterring students like myself who have tattoos that need covered or have nice clothes but none that are considered “professional” I was like a deer in headlights the whole time because what could I really say?
One thing I'd like to see is a class on how to work with a TA effectively in the classroom and setting out clear expectations of each other and of the students they teach/support from the get-go, because a TA can either be a help or a hindrance depending on the Teacher/TA's attitudes.
Lots of schools do demo teaching as part of their interview process here in the US. Out of 5 schools, I’ve had to do 3 demo teaching as part of my interview.
I wish I would have learned about alternative teaching programs!!!! I won't name names but my university tried to fail me the semester before I student taught for special education and told me I would have to go another two years which money wise. I just couldn't do college for 6 plus years, one of my mom's friends who is a teacher suggested I look at alternative teaching programs and now I'm graduating a semester before my friends and am will be my first year in the classroom and receiving a paycheck this fall. As they said colleges don't care when you graduate they just want to see how much more money they can get out of you, sad but true!
Omg this is a great one…. I wish I knew more about the legality of paperwork being a SPED teachers. The documents we put together and have to follow, it’s a lot. So many documents I wish they taught me about and how to implement them without getting sued. I have never been sued but with all these documents it is a thing that could happen and it’s scary.
I'm so glad I've had the privilege to work in a school as a paraprofessional and with a admin who like to put me in different situations for me to learn from while I'm getting my degree. Be able to do so has been a true blessing with helping me to move through my program at an accelerated pace
I remember seeing teachers interview for a position at the school. They would teach us for half an hour and then whoever was observing would ask us (the students) to scrutinise the lessons. Some were amazing sore were questionable
I know I am late to the comment party, but something I wish they would have covered more is parent communication. My program stressed the importance of contacting parents, but they never discussed best practices for contacting parents. Contact them in the moment or wait till after school? Not even my district provided that kind of training for first-year teachers. I understood the necessity of contacting parents, but provide some training on best practices, please.
I was a assistant pre-k teacher a few years ago. For Georgia pre-k assistants do not need to have a B.A. in early childhood education nor a teaching certificate, just an Associates degree in ANYTHING. I had a Associates degree in Political Science and two weeks after I started my lead teacher's father passed and she had to go back to Alabama to handle that. I was left ALONE in that classroom for two weeks, with no training or education. Nobody came in and helped me or checked on me.
Talking about getting your degree in Ohio is so true! I did three summers just so I could finish in 4 years! And my student teaching was worthless. I payed so much money and took extra classes to do my student teaching abroad… just to get placed at a school where they couldn’t teach us until 2 weeks after we arrived and they just wanted us to float from class to class without any direction or mentor.
In the part where I am in the UK, its called ECT, Not NQT. But its the same thing! Its crazy to watch these and see how different the US is to the Britain
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I worked in American schools for 15 years, in the states and in Taipei. Then two years ago, I decided to try out working for a Taiwanese school. I am completely sold. The interview did include a teaching demo, which caught me off guard, but it was fine. By law, teachers cannot be assigned more than 22 periods per week, each period is 40 minutes. I get 3-5 hours of planning time every day and teach 1.5-3.5 hours per day. I get an 80 minute lunch/rest period ALONE, without having to supervise kids. For the first time in 15 years, I don't have to take any work home, stay late after school, or come in on the weekends. It is AMAZING. There is also a person called the "Teacher Affairs Director" who is basically a personal assistant to all the teachers. He is a liaison between the teachers and parents, orders the supplies and books we request, and arranges all the field trips and events we have ideas to do.
This is so awesome! Question though, do you teach while speaking English or do you have to learn a different language to teach in a different country like that? I’m so interested!!
Mind blown
Schools around the world respect their teachers SO MUCH more than we do. I've traveled a lot over the years and worked in schools in a few countries (as an assistant or helping a relative, not as a teacher) and spoken to friends in multiple other countries and from every thing I've learned, we are the only ones who don't realize that our teachers are literally training our future! That is one of the most important jobs there is! I knew I wanted to work with children but I just couldn't be a teacher, so I got my ECE and minored in child psych and opened a daycare. Because I really just couldn't do what they do.
@@Clair1028 Yes, I teach in English. English is pretty prevalent in Taiwan. If you get a job with an international school in a country outside your home country, it can be a really rewarding experience!
I taught in Beijing at a Bilingual Kindergarten that incorporated Montessori. I actively taught students until 10:50 am. Then they went to PE and their afternoon was in Chinese. I was able to plan, develop curriculum, meet with struggling students, provide more for advanced students, collaborate with other teachers, etc. ❤️
I would like to hear a whole podcast of what teaching is like over in England!…. I like hearing the difference between the different countries about teaching I found it interesting
He has TikTok’s fir that if you wanna know
no :/
I was a teacher for1 year. It was a disaster. I have a Crohn’s disease and needed emergency surgery the first month of school and got zero support from my small parochial school. They threw in three sped kiddos (autism, parents changing meds daily) and the autism mom taught kinder at the same school. Felt th3 need to barge in whenever. They expected me to just make it work. I made myself so sick worrying I ended up taking short term disability and my contract wasn’t renewed. I am now happily a financial counselor for a well known cancer center so it all worked out, but what a freaking nightmare. To top
It off,my student teaching mentor told me the last semester “maybe you shouldn’t be a teacher…you know, because you are partial,y deaf and cp. . I was dumbfounded. Screw you Oregon education system. Why mess with candidates and lower their confidence?p
@@Jenny-jd4yd glad you got out of that school district and got a better job that you like it’s sad that you didn’t get support that you needed
The teachers still don't give a crap for your mental health, my friend was called *mentally ill* by our French teacher in year 7.
Only our performing arts teachers cared ngl
But different schools work differently, less brutal bullying but if you are bullied, they won't do anything especially if you're another race but white
The higher the set you're in, the more discipline and pressure they'll put on you with expectations etc (but I think everyone faces that)
This one is random, but as a high school teacher I wish we would have been taught how to write letters of recommendation!!!
I get awesome kids asking me for letters because we have good rapport, but I hesitate because I'm not confident writing them.
I feel like general stuff like saying they’re hard working, enthusiastic, etc, and then just a personal note! A lot of school admissions seem to really just want to see that good rapport, imo
I think about this way too often. I‘ve been asking for letters of recommendation since middle school just to TRY OUT for cheerleading. like what the hell are they gonna recommend? I can do a cartwheel well? no
This is how I felt about cover letters and resumes after college.
Ask an English teacher. I write them all the time and have helped a peer who was asked to write one.
@@camidumbass LOL this is funny because I cheered and I couldn’t imagine asking a teacher for a letter of rec for tryouts
My senior year in college we were asked, "what would you change about the schools education program to improve it?"
My answer was require a class that has students become a Substitue Teacher.
This would:
-help with the sub teacher shortage
-allow college students to gain confidence in teaching a class without another teacher present
-build relationships between future teachers and local schools
-allows college students to interact with more teachers and pick up skills
This is an amazing idea! It would also weed out the teachers that come in the first year and realize they are not cut out for the job. That being said, I subbed prek-12 and even alternative school (where kids had juvi records) while I was working on my degree for exactly these reasons: to get experience, see what level I was best in, and to network. It’s crazy how many aspiring teachers don’t think to do this.
I will say it still did not prepare me for the onslaught that being a teacher brings. The workload and the hours shocked me to the core and I came into teaching after giving up a long career in corporate America.
I love this idea. I'm not a school teacher but have considered it for the future.
It's crazy to me that a sub just needs to do a couple trainings and they are able to be left alone with kids and do lesson plans and whatnot with most of them.
@@majica26 I did this too and am forever grateful that my friend at the time told me I didn’t need my degree to do this. That’s what had held me back prior but it’s been the best choice I made in college. Not only did I make bang for my area at the time, it helped me gain SO much confidence with kids and being in the school environment as a professional. Highly recommend if you have a few days you can dedicate to this. I did this mostly during online classes my last semester/year during Covid.
Did anybody else notice Mr Thomas kind of come out of his shell in this podcast. In the others he didn’t really talk as much so it’s great to see him becoming more comfortable.
He is English after all lol
They should teach a law class on what you’re allowed to do legally. We had teachers put in ‘teacher jail’ because they sat together on a field trip bus. No one told them that it isn’t allowed.
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thats absolutely absurd wtf
What is “Teacher Jail”?
Why not? & who told on them?
Why isn't it? We always do it in Italy
I just finished high school and we actually got to have a personal finance class this year to take the place of our math period. It was amazing and it provided so many practical life skills that we knew nothing about. I really think every school should have a class like that!
I wish my children had had that as an option! They graduated in 2018, 2020, and 2021, and none of them got anything like that. It’s so frustrating and we did our best to teach them from their first paycheck. I’m glad you had that opportunity.
When my mom started teaching she had an emergency credential, and they hired her to teach in a program specifically for emotionally disturbed students in high school. She was working towards 2 credentials, 1 for general Ed and one for special Ed. For general Ed she did her student teaching during summer school, for her special Ed student teaching…. She did it in her own classroom. It was crazy. To be fair she probably had the best ED program and she worked so well with those kids specifically. I was also her assistant many times while in that classroom (I was subbing and we had different names so most didn’t put 2 and 2 together).
I'm a student, and every year I do this:
Every day after school, I write a note to all of my teachers. They each get their own. At the end of the year, I get x amount(however many teachers I have) of boxes and put all the notes in them
Really enjoy these podcasts. Just shows me that all of our systems (education, medicine, etc.) in the US need an overhaul.
Im german, english is my 2nd language. So i moved to America in 2nd grade, i already spoke a little english because we had known we would move for a couple years. So i wasnt entirely fluent, so every now and then i wouldnt know a word and i would ask and my teacher would yell at me for not knowing the word, so i stopped asking. In 3rd grade i was really confused by a word and my teacher saw. She actually cared and sat with me the rest of the test and helped me with words. That night when i went home i CRIED and CRIED. I know thats something that would be considered normal for a teacher to do, but it brought my grades from D's and C's to all A's, it just so much
I wish I had learned more about policies, laws, and my rights as a teacher. I am so grateful that WVEA (the union) is strong in my county. I see the way admin walk all over teachers that don't know any better and it is really awful. I also wish we were taught not only classroom managment 101, but advanced master class level classroom managment. I wish we were taught advanced communication as well. When I have student teachers, I try to build them up and support them, but I also want them to see the great and challenging sides of what we do. I think people either run the profession down with all the negatives and scare new teachers away, or they only show the good idealistic parts and that sets them up for failure. You have to get both because that is the real experience.
As I get older, I’ve learned that college courses we were forced to take to graduate, didn’t do much to help us. They just exist to make money off students, even the courses meant for teachers aren’t that helpful.
I would love to watch an episode where y’all talk about student and teacher dress code with ridiculous experiences y’all may have had as students or as teachers!!
My program in college really prepped me for the paperwork (lesson planning + material creating) but did little to nothing to prep me for classroom management. I graduated in May and have been subbing for the rest of the school year. I've learned more this past month than I had my entire semester student teaching. Another thing no one talks about is how much work student teaching is (I'll use almost nothing I did in student teaching as a full time teacher). I'm from CT and they require all teacher candidates to complete EdTPA (an assessment of teaching using 15 rubrics). I really pushed myself hard throughout college to get a 4.0 so by the time I was student teaching I was extremely burnt out. I felt guilty my entire time student teaching because I wasnt teaching as well as I could have; I put most of my time into the EdTPA assessment so I wasn't focused on the day to day of my students, materials, supports, ect. as I should have been. I feel guilty even admitting it, but student teaching felt like a waste of time. I just worked to meet assessment requirements and did not get what I wanted to get out of my time in the classroom. I did very well on the assessment but now its over and I feel unprepared for my own classroom. I accepted a job in a very difficult school and district (with plans to transfer to my dream school within the district once I get my masters in a few years). I'm worried that I'm not ready to handle whats gonna be thrown my way. :/
I love this podcast I'm a student but I personally love to hear the teachers side.
That's so awesome. You're getting multiple perspectives and thats great.
I have absolutely no skin in this game: no kids, not a teacher or a student, just want to know what other's go through. #buildingempathy
yeah I love to see how the teachers feel I always know they are under stress so when I hear there stories I instantly feel more respect for my teachers.
So excited when I see your podcast drop! *Hey, Mrs. Rogers* _, _*_your Dominos pizza guy video was extremely scary and extremely serious_*_ ,_ and I hope very much that you took it that way by calling the police, installing cameras around your house, etc, because that wasn’t just your basic stalker, that was some next level scary stuff. So I really hope you’re keeping yourself safe. We love you!!!💙
I might have had a really good and dedicated economics teacher during senior year of high school, cuz I %100 feel like I learn a bunch of does financial things during that class, like 401k and taxes and paycheck deductibles and all does different options, makes me feel weird that possibly not everyone gets the same education even though we all go through the same system 🤦🏼♀️! I absolutely love listening to you guys and learning more about the world through you ❤
I just want to say thank you guys so much for all this information!! I love hearing all your experiences in the teaching career. I am currently an undergrad elementary ed and I graduate next year so I have so many questions about what I’m in store for. I noticed a lot of the topics you guys discuss a lot of the time in the teaching program they don’t mention any of this or prepare us. I really wish the program would have teachers like you guys come in and share your experiences, give us helpful tips
I absolutely LOVED my "teaching math in elementary" or whatever it was called. I learned so much and use so much of it. It was really showing not what to think but how to. The teacher was absolutely amazing
I have been loving Mr. Thomas on the podcast!
As someone who just graduated and now is working towards a sub permit before going into a cred program. I just know for a fact classroom management is a big one. I would love to know more about why they make the lesson plans so unreasonably long when in undergrad? Mr. Thomas' UK school with basically a google drive that has all the levels in one sounds amazing and I believe it would take the right school and the right person to make it a reality.
This year was my fifth year teaching high school mathematics. Classroom management is something that needs be taught better. That being said there is no one size fits all management practice. Every one of my six classes is different and cannot be “managed” with one practice style. Another thing I wish we had learned more about is extracurricular activities sponsoring, and the pressure to do so. I have coached soccer with zero experience and now (22-23) I’m the head Pom (spirit/dance) Squad sponsor again with zero experience. I do it because enjoy watching my students doing what they love. I did volunteer for both (not at the same time) but I wish there had been a class on athletic rules, managing expenses, etc.
Dang, when I was growing up I always had thought of like being a teacher but like realizing up to this point like I didn't want to become one because like I know because of the stories all the teachers had said here that made me think like I don't really want to pick up a teacher because I can't handle it!!
@@scenepunk09 oh no it's fine, don't worry about it!!
We actually had something kind of similar happen when I was in high school. The student teacher for my English teacher ended up teaching our class until the end of the year as a long term sub and they pretty much modified her ending requirements to graduate. Though the circumstances were a bit different because she was replacing her cooperating teacher who had tragically passed in a auto accident
Love Lauran's disembodied voice coming from her hand at 19:15 🤣
Love you guys and the podcast
I loved a ton of stuff about my teacher preparation program, and was so lucky to get the cooperating teacher I got. She is, to this day, one of the best teachers I have ever worked with. From what I understand, though, my program was unusual in that we did a year-long student teaching placement at one school instead of just 6-10 weeks. It was really valuable to see and experience an entire school year.
I do wish I would have had more support and training around differentiation for students receiving SpEd services and training around parent communication. Those were two areas I definitely felt like I was lacking in at first.
I love their intro and their whole vibe in general. It’s so funny to listen to and interesting to hear story’s lol. I love this podcast and if your new to it I hope you’ll love it too. ❤️
This is interesting for me as I am starting teaching training in September in the UK.
Real entertaining podcast. Had the chance to be a lab aid for my biology teacher, was able to understand a teacher’s job better because of it
I am about to finish my first year as a teacher so I was relating to this so much. Talking to both my department head(math) and our principal they said in their 30 years in education this is the hardest year they have ever seen across the board... well I survived it haha 😄
As a bus driver I love love love your podcast. I gain so much knowledge through you all on how to interact with my students
Hey love the podcast
I love you guys! It’s good for my mental to health to know I’m not alone out here in the jungle lol. Loved all the real talk but wanted to say that analyzing and interpreting data is critical in the classroom. I learned these valuable skills in both the military and later in the civilian sector in my HR career. I did a career change later in life because teaching was and is my dream job. Data analysis has taken me and my students to the next level and then some and I find it incredible that so many teachers have no idea how it works or what is the big deal. I’m actually tasked with training others in my school, but anyway-would love to hear some conversation about its value. Your kiddos deserve for you to be informed. Keep up the great work. You guys are encouraging so many of us out here in the trenches.
I love how honest and candid you all are in your podcast. I generally don’t listen to a lot of podcasts, but I’m going to subscribe to yours.
Keep rocking it!
And keep being the heroes you are!
Vinny talking about teaching a class during an interview unlocked a memory where a teacher test taught our maths class and just gave us all calculators and told us to get on with it 😂🤦♀️
My college is similar to Becca’s. We changed recently but I’m in the old program where we major in a content area and then a certificate in adolescence education. Adolescent Ed is 5/6-12 depending on content area. You do 2 50hr placements, one in 5-8 and one in 9-12 and then a student teaching placement in one of 3 of areas of choice. You can also just get certified in SpEd with an extra 50hr placement in a SpEd Class and an extra exam. NYS has also got rid of the EdTPA requirement finally.
I love how almost every episode Lauran says she is going to move somewhere different!! I love it so much❤❤
I love this topic. I’m not a teacher, but I did just recently graduate from an LIS master’s program to become a librarian. And I remember toward the end of this past semester as I was gearing up to graduate, there was an email that was sent out about a new course on how to deal with/ manage information overload…I cannot tell you how much I wish that I had the opportunity to take a class like that during my time in grad school! Professions related to information or information technologies have to constantly be willing to adapt with changes in information, information technology as well as information needs. Educators must fall into that category as well. It feels hard to keep up with all the constant shifts that these fields can experience.
I wish I was taught how to handle difficult behaviors! My classroom is full of kiddos with different types of trauma and they had NO resources! And I was blamed when the kids acted out. I also would have loved to be trained in how to properly use the curriculum the school used. I was thrown in two weeks before school started and was given very little support!
Hello 👋 I’m an elementary special education teacher from rural Iowa. My current school (among many others in the area) required an in-person interview and teaching of a lesson in a classroom.
I love bri’s hair ❤uhghhhhh fresh silk press. I wish I had them as teachers. But with that being said this is a very informative platform from a teachers perspective.
For me I wish I had several classes about special Education in my undergraduate program. I first went to school to be a social studies teacher 6-12 but realized I couldn’t find work and thought why not go back and get a sped masters. Now I’m a special Ed teacher and honestly never thought I would make it through this year
This is my favorite podcast!
I can’t get enough of this podcast! Love it so much ❤️
Yea I’m on a iep for dyslexia and adhd
I have an IEP!! 😁
When you spoke about having data and documentation to prove your scores, I felt that! In my school, we have to have a pre conference before the observation, a post conference afterwards with documentation proving how we met the rubric criteria. Same for professionalism...I wrote 4 pages of documentation to prove that I was a professional. Exhausting!!!
My university required all business students (not a teacher) to take a personal financial management course. The professors who designed the course were pushing for it be required for all majors. I was SO grateful for that class!
I teach elementary here in Norway. Our education is for 1-7 grade, 5-10th or one for everything higher.
I am starting to realize our system is a lot better them most out there, but one thing i missed was Sped. I had no idea how to make an IEP when I started.
#8. I love listening to the podcast, it’s always makes me laugh
I wish what I was taught in school before going into preschool is other methods of theory other than play and Reggio, when I was in my first Montessori school, I fell in love with the theory but classes like “creating the environment” was geared towards a play based environment.
I am an actuarial consultant for retirement plans and I didn’t even know much about them when I graduated college (with a double major in math and actuarial science). Retirement plans are pretty confusing, especially contributory plans (401k, 403b, state pension plans, etc.). I experienced the same feelings when I first started and had to set up my own benefits.
I'm student teaching in central Texas right now. Y'all are listing off classes I took or things that were/are being taught to us now so at least it's looking up. haha We literally just went over the acronyms last week in our monthly seminar.
Like we had a class for Classroom Management and SPED.
This is great guys. I think you guys would get a kick out of my journey as a teacher as well. Some very interesting stuff. Keep up the banter I love it.
I recently interviewed at several charter schools in Colorado and they all required a video of teaching a lesson or come in a teach one.
Just found this podcast and love it! The energy is absolutely amazing. I'm a 17 years old student and the pressure of adulting is getting to me. Can I make a suggestion for a topic of a podcast? About what early adults should know or the skills needed to do well as an adult
Hilarious with the acronyms. I am NOT an educator but worked 28 years building and testing rocket motors (Mechanical Engineering degree). In my first 3 months, I started writing down acronyms that I did not understand at all. The list was over 100. One year later, I spoke and understood the jargon like a professional. It took another 5 years to actually know what was going on. My last few years was being a mentor for people. My personal goal was to get them on board faster than I did.
Well, saying "that's perfect! " was much more polite and tactful than walking ojr and giving up 😜
Actually the district i work for in Nj does makes us do a demo lesson as the interview process and is a low income district. I was so nervous. I taught a genetics lesson to a 7th grade class while 2 VPs observed me then right after met with one of them to discuss how the lesson went.
When I got my job, I taught an ELL math class. I had zero classes on how to modify for ELL students. I teach high school math. I knew nothing about teaching English. I went to get my certificate so that I could understand how to teach my students better.
Vinny, I am in a similar situation. Came to the US with a PGCE...BUT I got them to do the equivalency to a graduate with Masters! Got a full time HS job for next year and you are so right about the new teachers getting the more difficult schools....which is where they should concentrate the more experienced teachers really....weird...
Drop me a note if you want to learn how to get your PGCE evaluation fixed 👍
17:15 shout out to Lauren for pointing out that IEP programs are not equal across the board.
What if you fall down the stairs in front of your kids
Mrs.Rodgers: no, that's too much
I am so glad you guys have a podcast. I loved Bri's tik toks...
She cracks me up 🤣🤣
18:23 That shocked me ngl I thought he was yk
Big fan of the podcast! Thank you for all the awareness you are bringing to our field :) As a music teacher, I'd love to hear about your point of view of electives or specials in schools like music, art, PE, etc. I'm slightly biased towards kids taking more electives (obvi as a high school music teacher) but I know that there are a lot of opinions surrounding these classes. For example, back when I was an elementary school teacher (we get certified K-12) kids can get very excited during class and be returned o class that way! (sorry) What are things you wish elective teachers knew about what you do and what do you wish you knew about elective teachers?
If anyone has questions on elective teacher problems, please ask... I know too many! Even though we can all say we love our jobs, it is far from perfect!
When I was in school we had a class called “Life Skills” Everything from how to fill out a bank deposit slip and write a check also all the different kinds of check pros and cons of each . We studied about different kinds of medical and life insurance . How to make a business phone call and answer a business call How to deal with companies as a private person. How to get utilities connected and or disconnected. Different types of retirement plans etc.. Everyone was required to take this class freshman year, just in case you dropped out or transferred you could get by out there. That was how it really was when I was 15 years old (60 years ago).
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They try to teach you acronyms , but every district has their own specific ones and admin likes to make new every year.
We had a math for teachers which was a piece of cake for me as I was a math minor. I also remember taking such an intense CPR class with these tapes that came out of the dummy and measured compressions and it was so hard I passed out.
I also had a horrible master teacher who wouldn't let me use her copy code, so I had to pay for my copies at office max. She said I had to drink coffee as all teachers did.
She criticized everything. I got a haircut and she said she was glad, because I now looked like a grown up. She told me I made the other teacher's uncomfortable because I was quiet so I quit going to the teacher's lounge. She even wanted me to miss my only sibling's wedding, even though it was one day and I told her when I met her in the summer and she said it was no big deal. At the time I was only teaching spelling. She was so angry when it happened despite 3 reminders and so she made me teach three extra days of everything and I missed my school's Fall break. She also decided to split two reading groups into 7 and the same with spelling groups. I wrote about 35 lesson plans each night and never slept. I almost quit. She didn't give me anything ay the end even though I gave her a nice gift. At the end of it, I gave her a horrible review and found out the university near us no longer used her and my professor said he gave me her because he thought I needed a challenge. I was her last student.
When they were talking about the "double major", that's exactly what happened to me. I got a math degree, on top of a teacher of ed degree, but because it was all undergrad, they didn't count it as a full double major. Super frustrating. But, I got my degree in 2008. Even then, there weren't things like teacher pay teachers or many other teacher resources.
My favorite class was my Math Methods class, because it was actual development and presentation of lessons that may really apply.
Unfortunately I literally had a professor say (when she was asked about discipline and classroom management) that if our lesson plans were flushed out and we keep our classroom on point, we won't have problems!! Like seriously? We never got any type of management (time, structure, classroom, etc). Nothing practical. Thankfully, I was subbing the last 2 years of my degree, so I was very aware of actual classroom applications. I finally am teaching at a school that started any new to school teacher in a discipline program that works well. Thankful for that.
What microphones are you using
I recently finished my credential program and my Masters concurrently and it was crap. I don't feel like I learned anything about actually teaching! Half of my student teaching was a nightmare with a really discouraging master teacher who literally bullied me and the other half was with a really great master teacher but it was during the pandemic and was completely online. I feel so unprepared for teaching! I have been subbing for the last few months and that has given me more actual experience in actual classrooms but it is still not the same as having your own class! I love this podcast but tbh it also scares the bejesus out of me!
I am glad you guys got Vinny on the podcast ☺️ I love his RUclips Shorts
With the story about having to prove standards,I haven't had to do it but when I was student teaching my cooperating teacher did have to make a portfolio with artifacts of the different standards.
I’m a student and this past summer I was a mock student so we did a mock classroom. I’m in middle public school.
Check out Finland. Their teaching is a world of difference for the better
You guys have made remember a memory where in 6th grade I went to this school since I was 5 but I homeschooling 1 year to try it out so I didn't know these kids, and my 1st hour math teacher had us organize us by age but we had 5 minutes. I didn't realize at the time but I made a lot of new friends bc of that moment
Honestly they should make it madndatory that highschoolers take a personal financing class...I was lucky to have grandparents who taught me about financing from a young age but not everyone has that. It needs to be mandatory because people have no idea what they're doing when applying for loans, budgeting, they dont know how to properly take care of their finances which makes them easy to take advantage of. Another issue is many people don't even know how to write a resume or know the proper etiquette of job interviews, they should be taught about those things as well.
Your cooperating teacher leaving you alone in the room is the greatest compliment.
Yall need a Netflix show and show everyone the realistic side of teaching!
I dropped out about a year ago but our education program was wild. It was a 5 year double major and they expect so much from us. Most of our professors either didn’t care or had no idea where the program was going or what we needed. I had 3 separate advisors for my edu degree, my major and my minor. Tell me why I was taking the hardest chemistry class offered for a chemistry minor? But a physics minor wasn’t offered even though they are all certified separately in my state.
We also had a class on teaching to special needs and required that we write a resource guide to teaching to special needs that was a minimum of 64 pages while actively in a classroom for observations with almost no assistance. Our professor mostly taught at a local school and just happened to have a PhD so he could teach at our university.
Also my friend did her entire student teaching as the sole teacher in her classroom because her mentor was appointed as principal like 3 weeks in
i don’t understand why these episodes of a podcast are only 30 min long? i LOVE listening to each of them talk so much i feel like their episodes should be at least an 1hr30
I'm a first-year teacher in NYC and it is always so interesting to me how different things are here versus Ohio or North Carolina or Mississippi let alone in the UK. Crazy
I have a double major in special education and elementary education and I am certified to teach preschool- age 21 special education students and K-5 regular elementary students. However, after my first year teaching I decided to switch and work in a school district for students ages 3-21 years old with moderate to severe disabilities. The school uses ABA as their teaching model and almost all of my students were non-speaking or low verbal. We had a few classes during one of our courses about ABA and data collection/management and maybe one or two classes about augmentative communication (that was in 2005 so there wasn’t as much tech back then). I learned everything hands on and thankfully had experience with autism prior to teaching but it was a child I babysat for and at a summer camp. I was also lucky to have spent 2 summers working in the district I now teach in as an aide so I didn’t go in completely blind. That being said other then my sign language course (2 semesters which counted towards my foreign language requirement) I had a handful of classes (not full courses but 2/3 hour classes) that apply to my teaching job now. The only text book I kept and still use is my sign language textbook. I love teaching but I learned more in my first year teaching then I learned through my entire college experience.
"Is no one going to check in on me!" is now my new favorite line😂
I’m going to for my masters degree in education and my license is elementary education but covers K4-9th grade. My capstone project I’m hoping to touch on having a class or some form of internship to work on classroom management. It is tricky because some schools have specific forms of management but I find it crucial for teachers to have it in their tool belt.
I’m going through the same situation as Lauren. I have had overloaded schedules every semester except one the past 2 years and plan to continue that but I will still have to take a 5th year because of how our semesters are set up.
One thing I have found funny is my cooperating teacher my first year got genuinely angry at the dress code we had to follow because it is stricter than the dress code the teachers actually have. She went on a 30 minute rant about how it was deterring students like myself who have tattoos that need covered or have nice clothes but none that are considered “professional” I was like a deer in headlights the whole time because what could I really say?
One thing I'd like to see is a class on how to work with a TA effectively in the classroom and setting out clear expectations of each other and of the students they teach/support from the get-go, because a TA can either be a help or a hindrance depending on the Teacher/TA's attitudes.
Every Sunday I look forward to hearing your podcast.
Lots of schools do demo teaching as part of their interview process here in the US. Out of 5 schools, I’ve had to do 3 demo teaching as part of my interview.
I wish I would have learned about alternative teaching programs!!!! I won't name names but my university tried to fail me the semester before I student taught for special education and told me I would have to go another two years which money wise. I just couldn't do college for 6 plus years, one of my mom's friends who is a teacher suggested I look at alternative teaching programs and now I'm graduating a semester before my friends and am will be my first year in the classroom and receiving a paycheck this fall. As they said colleges don't care when you graduate they just want to see how much more money they can get out of you, sad but true!
Omg this is a great one…. I wish I knew more about the legality of paperwork being a SPED teachers. The documents we put together and have to follow, it’s a lot. So many documents I wish they taught me about and how to implement them without getting sued. I have never been sued but with all these documents it is a thing that could happen and it’s scary.
I'm so glad I've had the privilege to work in a school as a paraprofessional and with a admin who like to put me in different situations for me to learn from while I'm getting my degree. Be able to do so has been a true blessing with helping me to move through my program at an accelerated pace
I remember seeing teachers interview for a position at the school. They would teach us for half an hour and then whoever was observing would ask us (the students) to scrutinise the lessons. Some were amazing sore were questionable
I know I am late to the comment party, but something I wish they would have covered more is parent communication. My program stressed the importance of contacting parents, but they never discussed best practices for contacting parents. Contact them in the moment or wait till after school? Not even my district provided that kind of training for first-year teachers. I understood the necessity of contacting parents, but provide some training on best practices, please.
I was a assistant pre-k teacher a few years ago. For Georgia pre-k assistants do not need to have a B.A. in early childhood education nor a teaching certificate, just an Associates degree in ANYTHING. I had a Associates degree in Political Science and two weeks after I started my lead teacher's father passed and she had to go back to Alabama to handle that. I was left ALONE in that classroom for two weeks, with no training or education. Nobody came in and helped me or checked on me.
Talking about getting your degree in Ohio is so true! I did three summers just so I could finish in 4 years! And my student teaching was worthless. I payed so much money and took extra classes to do my student teaching abroad… just to get placed at a school where they couldn’t teach us until 2 weeks after we arrived and they just wanted us to float from class to class without any direction or mentor.
In the part where I am in the UK, its called ECT, Not NQT. But its the same thing! Its crazy to watch these and see how different the US is to the Britain
On Long Island NY public schools, I had to do a demo lesson at every interview I went on!