#teacher ed

[simplysoniferous]

Booked my first LANTITE test! (I'm splitting them up because a) my adhd brain would not appreciate 4 hours of testing, and b) I am really worried about the maths one and want to do more prep).

It's not until November, which is great because it gives me time to acclimatise to a 7:30 call time (!?!?!?!).

Uni is still chaos, but at least I know I'll do fine at this. Also, it'll be nice to get a registration requirement out of the way just to have the box checked. I'll let y'all know how I go

[organanation]

It’s sort of a long story but for school I have to play a coding game and one of the options was programing astro-mech droids with Rey and Leia and so I am programming BB8 now and there might be a short story later about Leia getting frustrated with coding

[iwasyourteacher]

interns?

OK guys, fill me in.  what do you mean “interns”.  My knowledge is of the UK, Canada and Australian systems of teacher education, and we have teacher trainig placements, which is part of your teacher education, so you don’t get paid for it (usually).  There’s also the kind of student-teachers / trainee-teachers who do get paid through (problematic) programs like “Teach First” in the UK.  But both these kind of programs are on the way towards accreditation (teacher degree).  I guess you could call a student-teacher an “intern” but i mean, i think that language is problematic.

Someone (@ sopaltenbass ) in the notes said they have interns at their school, who refuse to do teacher training (?!) but are paid (!?!)... so like, are they teaching assistants???  which are different.  teaching assistants are a real thing.  what do you mean, refuse to do their training??  no snark intended, i’m honestly confused and curious.

thanks in advance for the replies!

EDIT/UPDATE: i’ll be responding to some of the notes in the notes (the handle is “phd-teacher”, not iamyourteacher because that’s my primary account, stupid tumblr), so i might have responded to something you said!

UPDATE 2: thanks for your responses. consider myself filled in. For those equally as clueless as i was, please go through some of the notes, they are very informative.

xteacher

[astronautpirate]

It’s been a whole 24 hours since I left my middle school where I did my four weeks of apprenticeship. I can’t tell you how much I am going to miss those kids and seeing their faces everyday. I can’t even fathom how much I already miss hearing them say every single little thing that comes into their heads from “I am Banana” (and then only answering if I called her Banana in class) to “hey what if Roombas and Alexas could be linked and if an intruder came in you could just say ‘Hey, Alexa! Intruder alert!’?” followed by some convoluted plan about attaching knives to Roombas. I know that I’ll be back in the fall to do my entire semester of student teaching, but right now? I am heart broken that I won’t see them on Monday.

[muffinmixreads]

"Teachers often depend on their personal authority and expertise to define themselves in relation to their students. . .To the extent that a teacher's self-concept depends on whether he or she is recognized as an authoritative source, that teacher may avoid the strategic and purposive aspect of writing in favor of its prescriptions"

Mary Kennedy, Learning to Teach Writing, p. 12

[thanksandyes]

I'm just really psyched for the next 4-5 years.

[selfprofessedmathnerd]

Educational Constraints

I'm supposed to have a 400 word blog post. . . but I have a 1200 word paper/speech. Which parts do I keep and which do I cut?

[selfprofessedmathnerd]

Homework (n.)

That thing they give you a lot of in education to try to convince you that you shouldn't give any to your future students