Suggestions on student teaching.....

[snowy ciara]

Hey everyone! You too, can influence future generations with little or no effort! All you have to do is click one of these options, and help me decide what to do next semester!

I didn't get my first choice student teaching next semester, so I can wait an additional semester (I'm supposed to graduate next Christmas) and have a high school class next fall. Or I can have an intermediate spot (grades 6 - 8) or elementary spot (k - 5) starting in January. Or I can say, screw the teaching cert, and fill in with some stuff that's been recommended 'cause I'm also thinking of grad school after I graduate.

 

[Private_Label]

I chose stay the extra time ... because that would allow you to take the recomended classes now, and still get your teaching cert....

 

[Lilith]

What will your certification be in? At my college, you intern in your field of study. I'm a double major so I must do a double internship to cover both. I'll be getting additional certifications because I passed those tests but I can't get a degree without having interned in that field. I'm finishing week 8 now :happy dance:

My opinion is get the internship over with. I'm in mine now. If your field is a critical shortage area it won't matter where you interned, they will scoop you up.

 

[Master Sensei]

I have my teaching degree as well and taught High School Science.

I'd hold out for the experience I really wanted.

Also, I want to caution you about that field because of your lifestyle. Depending on the environment your personal life will constantly be under scrutiny.

 

[Betticus]

I vote for the option where you come to Las Cruces and do your graduate work at NMSU.

 

[graceanne]

I'm going with Betticus, but I want you to come to Portland and do your graduate work HERE. Beyond that, while I voted RUN!, i know you won't - I think you should do the smaller kids. After all, you teach them soccer - you have some experience with them.

 

[Betticus]

I'm going with Betticus, but I want you to come to Portland and do your graduate work HERE. Beyond that, while I voted RUN!, i know you won't - I think you should do the smaller kids. After all, you teach them soccer - you have some experience with them.

Yeah, but she's only three hours away from here and portland is at least.... lessee... carry the one.... at least more hours than three!

Yeah, I win! And I have cookies. Or at least I have access to cookies and banana bread. With Pecans or Walnuts in it too. And the frozen custard or the optional coldstone creamery.

There are also a couple of TKD studios in town too.

And a little gourmet chocolate store in the historic downtown area right next to where Billy the Kid was on trial.

 

[graceanne]

Yeah, but she's only three hours away from here and portland is at least.... lessee... carry the one.... at least more hours than three!

Yeah, I win! And I have cookies. Or at least I have access to cookies and banana bread. With Pecans or Walnuts in it too. And the frozen custard or the optional coldstone creamery.

There are also a couple of TKD studios in town too.

And a little gourmet chocolate store in the historic downtown area right next to where Billy the Kid was on trial.

Um, ok. I have no idea how many TKD studios there are in Portland, but there are two in my area. If I looked it up I'd bet there's three or four that much. There's three colleges in the area. And I make great cookies. You can get godiva chocolate at the nearest mall, or if you don't want to deal with the mall their's a little store in downtown.

PLUS we don't have any nasty bugs. The biggest bug her is the daddy longlegs spider. Roaches are the size of pencil erasers and DO NOT FLY. There are not poisonous snakes, and only two poisonous spiders (and they're reclusive - it's rare to get bit by one). Plus it rarely gets below 40 degree in the winter or over 95 in the Summer. The northwest is the best place in the world. And if you want to go somewhere else we have the mountains (snow), the coast, and a desert within driving distance (as in a few hours).

 

[Betticus]

Well Missy, There is a ski resort about two hours from here up in the mountains. There is also the rugged desert southwest with all of it's rich history to soak up. You can't beat the Mexican food and I'm down here.

Let's not have this come down to some kind of Snowy custody fight.

 

[graceanne]

Well Missy, There is a ski resort about two hours from here up in the mountains. There is also the rugged desert southwest with all of it's rich history to soak up. You can't beat the Mexican food and I'm down here.

Let's not have this come down to some kind of Snowy custody fight.

Their's a ski resort an hour away from me. And yes I can. I know that you live near Mexico, but Portland is about half Mexicans. There are at least four different restraunts that I can think of that are run by Mexicans that don't even speak English. (And boy it's fun to try an order.)

But I think it's moot point. We don't have ***A***.

 

[Betticus]

Their's a ski resort an hour away from me. And yes I can. I know that you live near Mexico, but Portland is about half Mexicans. There are at least four different restraunts that I can think of that are run by Mexicans that don't even speak English. (And boy it's fun to try an order.)

But I think it's moot point. We don't have ***A***.

I'm sorry, I didn't understand that part behind the asterisks.

 

[graceanne]

I'm sorry, I didn't understand that part behind the asterisks.

The chick she's been dating? She shows up occasionally on lit and her lit name is ***A***.

 

[Betticus]

The chick she's been dating? She shows up occasionally on lit and her lit name is ***A***.

Otay.

 

[TNRkitect2b]

I chose stay the extra time ... because that would allow you to take the recomended classes now, and still get your teaching cert....

Agreed.

 

[brioche]

There is a problem - sometimes it's harder to get hired with a Master's. You cost more. On the other hand, having to take the extra course to get certified where you want to be is hell too. If i were you and could afford it - i'd take the extra semester. And i AM a teacher, who had to take the extra course simultaneously in order to teach primary. On Tuesday nights i got home at 11:00 (to sleep at 12:30 or so) and then up at 5:30 to do teacher's courses - it wasn't fun. i'd never ever do it again. i turned down a guaranteed job to stop commuting, and three years later i'm still not hired here at home. The thing that convinces me that i made the right decision is i'm only regretting it once a week.
brioche

 

[snowy ciara]

Thanks for your input here and via pms everyone. It appears that grad school may actually be a real possibilty for me. I've gotten two acceptance letters from good schools so far, including one ivy league college. After I picked myself up off the floor, I decided to take the extra semester to give myself time to try to swing the $$$ needed to go. That way, if I don't decide to go the grad school route, I can go right into teaching in one of my preferred grade levels.

 

[caela]

Thanks for your input here and via pms everyone. It appears that grad school may actually be a real possibilty for me. I've gotten two acceptance letters from good schools so far, including one ivy league college. After I picked myself up off the floor, I decided to take the extra semester to give myself time to try to swing the $$$ needed to go. That way, if I don't decide to go the grad school route, I can go right into teaching in one of my preferred grade levels.

Good luck with school Snowy. You're a braver woman than I am, if someone tried to put me in a room with that many kids (class sizes around here average in the low to mid 30's) for five days a week...I'd run screaming.

 

[graceanne]

Good luck with school Snowy. You're a braver woman than I am, if someone tried to put me in a room with that many kids (class sizes around here average in the low to mid 30's) for five days a week...I'd run screaming.

My uncle used to be the mechanic for a busbarn. One time I asked him why he never drove a bus, and he said 'Their's 60 of them. And you have to turn your back on them.'

Fits in well with teaching, too.

 

[brioche]

The place where i was moved to teach in until December is a new school and the enrollment number climbed higher than expected - so i went from teaching a grade 1/2 with 19 students, including a selective mute and a kid with Oppositional Defiant Disorder who liked to run away, to teaching a straight grade two with 20 students, none of which are behavioural to a level higher than pain in the ass - not ADHD, but rather BRAT. Also, i hate to say it, but some of the kids in my other class were dumb as dirt. i have more to work with here. It is farther from home, but even in this climate extra gas is a low cost to pay.
They've already settled down quite a bit and it's only been a week, so imagine what it'll be like soon. It's lovely to have room in the classroom.
It'll be better when all the orders come in and i actually get stuff - for example, some big girl scissors and a metre stick might be nice, as would math manipulatives.
Also, they need to stop questioning me. i actually said to one of them, "How many years have you been in school? Four? i've been in twenty. Do you think you need to tell me what to do?" They'll get the message soon enough.
Snowy, i think you made the right decision. Good luck.

 

[caela]

My uncle used to be the mechanic for a busbarn. One time I asked him why he never drove a bus, and he said 'Their's 60 of them. And you have to turn your back on them.'

Fits in well with teaching, too.

Exactly!

On a one-on-one basis I'm actually pretty good with kids and I do adore them (I can't wait for my siblings to be old enough to give me neices and nephews!!!) but to actually have to turn my back on 30+ of them...NU UH!!!

I have nothing but respect and admiration for teachers. They are BRAVE people.

 

[brioche]

Exactly!

On a one-on-one basis I'm actually pretty good with kids and I do adore them (I can't wait for my siblings to be old enough to give me neices and nephews!!!) but to actually have to turn my back on 30+ of them...NU UH!!!

I have nothing but respect and admiration for teachers. They are BRAVE people.

You don't turn your back on them until you have control of them. This can take a while, depending on how strict you are and the makeup of your class that year.

We are brave, and as long as you don't expect us to teach your kids manners, which should be learned at home, and listen to us about reading to your kids, etc., we'll get along with you swimmingly. If you don't listen to us, every teacher in the school will know about it - what do you think we talk about at lunch?

The only day that irritated me this past week was the one where the kid sharpened a crayon in the sharpener, and it melted because he kept going around and around...fortunately, i terrorized him enough about going to the office that he fixed it while i was at lunch. i don't care how he did it - it only took sharpening all the way through one pencil to make it better after that. i didn't even have to bother informing the office about it because the VP wandered by at the perfect time.

Actually - *I* didn't terrorize him - it was the prospect of going to the office. Our principal looks very imposing to the kids. i love it.

 

[caela]

We are brave, and as long as you don't expect us to teach your kids manners, which should be learned at home, and listen to us about reading to your kids, etc., we'll get along with you swimmingly. If you don't listen to us, every teacher in the school will know about it - what do you think we talk about at lunch?

Sadly a lot of people think that school should be teaching their kids manners and that they shouldn't have to do anything once their child is at home which rather screws y'all over.

Come to think of it that makes teachers doubly brave in my book...all those kids would be hard enough, but to have to deal with all those parents too ~shudders~