My journey to becoming a teacher

As the title says, this blog will be about my path to becoming a teacher. Hope you Enjoy.

[onmywaytoteach]

Does anyone know of any resources for a first time teacher?

[onmywaytoteach]

When I first started this I was still subbing in a school district five years later I got my first full time teaching position!

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[vivienvalentino]

Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson in Hidden Figures

[lagonegirl]

aka Killing Teachers.

[crownhimking]

Fuck Her!

[saywhat-politics]

While we were distracted by Trump, Republicans advanced these 9 terrifying bills

The Republican-led Congress is wasting no time forcing through the most horrendous bills seen in decades while America’s eyes are on Russia. With both houses...

[karadin]

1. H.R. 861: To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency

This bill — cosponsored by Republican members of Congress from fossil fuel-producing states — is just one sentence long, and says nothing about what would happen to the multiple environmental regulations the EPA has instituted since 1970, or its multibillion-dollar budget, or its thousands of staffers. H.R. 861 is currently awaiting action in the subcommittee on environment.

2. H.R. 610: Tax dollars for private schools

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) introduced this bill in January, which would redistribute funding earmarked for public schools in the form of vouchers for parents to send children to private schools. Over the long term, this would eventually bankrupt public schools, and create a stratified education system in which cash-strapped public schools would be unable to meet the educational needs of low-income students. The bill is awaiting action in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

3. H.R. 899: To terminate the Department of Education

If this bill, introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), becomes law, the U.S. Department of Education would terminate by the end of 2018. The bill’s brevity leaves many questions unanswered, like what would happen with Department of Education grants for public schools and universities, its budget, or its staff. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said she would personally be “fine” if the agency she heads were to be abolished.

4. H.J.R. 69: To repeal a rule protecting wildlife

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), whose constituents likely include hunters who kill wildlife for sport rather than for food, introduced this joint resolution voicing displeasure with a Department of Interior rule that prohibits “non-subsistence” hunting in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. The resolution passed the House and is awaiting action in the Senate.

5. H.R. 370: To repeal the Affordable Care Act

While President Obama was in office, House Republicans voted at least 60 times to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — despite its futility. However, the Trump administration has made the repeal of Obamacare a top priority, meaning the repeal bill from Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) is likely to pass.

6. H.R. 354: To defund Planned Parenthood

Despite the widely publicized debunking of the video alleging the women’s health nonprofit was selling human organs, Republicans are still refusing to stop destroying Planned Parenthood. Rep. Diane Black (R-Tennessee) introduced a bill that would prevent any federal grants from going to Planned Parenthood for a full year unless they swore to not perform abortions. As the chart below from Planned Parenthood shows, only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood resources go toward abortions, while the vast majority of funding is used to help low-income women get STD tests, contraceptive care, and breast cancer screenings:

7. H.R. 785: National Right-to-Work legislation

Conservative ideologue Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is aiming to cripple unions at the nationwide level with a bill that would systematically deprive labor unions of the funding they need to operate. Unions often provide one of the crucial pillars of support for Democratic candidates and causes, and conservatives aim to destroy them once and for all by going after their funding. It’s important to note that right-to-work is bad for all workers, not just union members — in 2015, the Economic Policy Institute learned that wages in right-to-work states are roughly 3.2 percent lower than in non-right-to-work states.

8. H.R. 83: Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act

Multiple cities and states around the country have openly stated that they won’t abide by President Trump’s plan to aggressively round up and deport undocumented immigrants. A bill by Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pennsylvania) would strip all federal funding of any city that doesn’t obey Trump’s immigration policies for up to a year.

9. H.R. 147: To criminalize abortion

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) wants to aggressively prosecute pregnant women seeking abortions, along with abortion providers, by making abortion a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The bill is currently awaiting action in the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

To fight back against these bills, call 202-224-3121, ask for your member of Congress, and tell them to vote no.

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@bitterbitchclubpresident @tacvbana @babyfairy

[sonoanthony]

Fuck

[weareteachers]

2. They say goodbye to their comfort zones. Student teaching is scary, y’all. It’s like meeting your future spouse and their 120 children for the first time… on the day of your wedding. We all have limits on what we are and aren’t comfortable with (and it’s important that both the student teacher and mentor teacher share and understand these), but good student teachers know that there is no better time to fail or make a fool of yourself than now, in a controlled environment with support from the mentor teacher.

From “7 Habits of Amazing Student Teachers”

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2015/01/14/7-habits-of-amazing-student-teachers 

(via weareteachers)

[onmywaytoteach]

Graduation

So I graduated today. But I’m not 100% sure I had passed my student teaching experience, especially my first one. The supervisor had given me not very good scores, but my second placement had, so it’s very confusing. I feel that if I was doing bad in the first placement I would have been on an improvement plan, but I was not. I also heard people talking about getting emails from people, but I have not which has me worried. I might be sending emails soon

[lillyrosaura]

There’s a website where you can learn ASL on your own and it is free and the woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to you guys cause most people on here is open-minded. Well, whoever of y’all reads this will possibly ignore this but if you are a curious george like me and wants to learn ASL she’s your gal. 

Rochelle has a free program called Learn ASL in 31 days, currently I am on day 10ish or 12, (idk I’m on learning my numbers currently) but I believe this site will help people that are either curious about ASL and just wants to learn, or actually is Deaf but can’t afford to going to actual class or something, or just hard of hearing. 

I am truly in love with learning with Rochelle, she isn’t those interpreters that will talk while she signs, (and I’ve searched through Youtube how to sign but the person talking will distract me and I would get confused) and it is all in video which is a good thing. I found her through Youtube, that’s where she has all her videos. Just check out her site. You’ll like it. 

[onmywaytoteach]

Supervisors

For practicum, I have had really good supervisors and really bad ones. The good ones always give feedback and have thinks that you can improve on. I have had one supervisor that has given me no feedback, just positive one that are vague. Usually along the lines of “that was a good lesson.” I like to hear that I am doing good, but I know that I have a lot to improve on. I wish that they would have more feedback for me, so that I can improve.

[micdotcom]

Detroit teachers stage “sickout” over horrible conditions, force schools to close

Eighty-eight of Detroit’s 97 public schools were closed Wednesday when teachers participated in a districtwide “sickout” to push for demands related to school conditions and their rights as employees. The protests align with a very high profile visitor in Detroit.

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[onmywaytoteach]

I will be teaching my first ESL lesson Friday. I am kind of nervous but also excited to get it over with. I will be with fourth graders, so they hopefully will be old enough to help me a long the way. I have to complete a unit lesson plan as well. So a lot of lesson plan writing is happening now :(

[onmywaytoteach]

Artifacts

At my college you have to have artifacts, assignments that will be a mini profile. It is important that once you get these assignments done and graded, that you save the physical copies and a copy online, where you will later submit it. That way when the time to submit comes, you will already have them organized and there, so you don’t go looking for them, or loosing them. I have lost a couple of artifacts, and it is a very stressful situations. I have had other classmates actually having to re-take the classes because they lost an artifact. So it is very important that you have multiple copies of them for when you start to student teach.

[onmywaytoteach]

Praxis 1

Tried to take the praxis one writing, by mistake I applied for reading. When I got there they would not let me take it, instead I get a phone number that does nothing. So I just spent 85$ for nothing 😿 But I took the right one, now I have to take math and hope I pass bot of them

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"Rahm Emanuel is not caring about our schools; he is not caring about our safety. He only cares about his kids. He only care about what he needs. He do not care about nobody else but himself. He let Barbara Byrd-Bennett, a woman that’s from Detroit who don’t even know the streets of Chicago where I’m from, come in and close these schools.” [x]

[sica49]

Look at the passion y’all!!!

Teach the babies that their words matter yess

[fakenigel]

I feel like the surveillance state exists to make sure kids like this don’t succeed

[zeroine]

his name is Asean Johnson and he was 9 when he gave this speech!!

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