Talk About Work Thread

bmwracer wrote:
We'll see about that.

*places a call to England*



Collect. :beaten: :hehe:

I don't think it's me they are going to be coming after.

Question: If I talk about my students, does that count as work related stuff? I mean, they ARE my job, neh?

Wynter wrote:
Question: If I talk about my students, does that count as work related stuff? I mean, they ARE my job, neh?

Only if they are crap. ;) Kidding. :rofl:

dochira wrote:Only if they are crap. ;) Kidding. :rofl:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA... :hehe: :rofl: :hehe: :rofl:

dochira wrote:
Only if they are crap. ;) Kidding. :rofl:

"Every child is crap." ~ Classroom management 101

qilver wrote:yeah, you'd get summers off to travel, and enjoy. :mrgreen:

Now that's my kind of job. Having the whole summer off, 2 weeks for Christmas, springbreak... :pout:

The thing is I'd probably kill one or two and would end up on a long vacation for 25 years. :beaten: :P

tabana wrote:
Now that's my kind of job. Having the whole summer off, 2 weeks for Christmas, springbreak... :pout:

The thing is I'd probably kill one or two and would end up on a long vacation for 25 years. :beaten: :P

and get off in the mid afternoon hrs...which is good.

but my sister who is also a teacher, says it has its difficulties too in being a teacher, grading papers, the students, parents, school personnel to deal with on a daily basis, meetings, setting up lessons, classrooms. But still, every job has it's challenges....but atleast teachers get off earlier than most 8-5'ers...and long summer breaks. :bonk:

Yeah... Every job has its ups and downs.

bmwracer wrote:
Get your camera ready...! :hehe:

i tried but failed miserably. seemed like everyone turned to me when i got my phone out! :shakehead:

Gah, I hate it when people think a teacher's job ends when we leave the school building!

I mean, my march break AND Christmas break are spent marking exams, marking assignments, and planning the next Unit. My usual work day is this: getting up at 6 to get to work at 7, teaching from 8 to 3, then doing extracurricular for another hour or two. Then staying behind to finish setting up for the next day. So I get home around 6, eat, and then make lessons or mark from 7 to bedtime. I sleep, wake up, and do the whole thing all over again.

Most of our work is OUTSIDE the classroom, and outside our usual teaching time, because we hardly get time during our regular hours to actually plan our course. I don't care what people say, we do NOT "wing it" when it comes to teaching kids. My lessons are thoroughly planned out. When you realize that what you say will remain in that child's mind, that's a lot of pressure. To be fair, there are a lot of teachers who DO wing it because they're either tired of their job, or just don't care. I'm not like that at all. I value education and my students.

And all this is ON TOP of behavioural issues, suspensions, duties, parents, etc. I can recall spending NIGHTS trying to contact parents from home because they can't be reached during the day.

Now, all that being said, we DO get summer vacation off, but it only amounts to about a month, which I know is more than what most people get, but I, for one, think teachers deserve it, since we have no life during the other 11 months of the year.

Wow, gomen for the rant! :sweat:

I know everyone has ups and downs and issues at the workplace. But I do think people need to stop thinking that we get all these weeks off, because we don't. At least, I don't.

^ My wife's a teacher....so I completely understand. :patpat:

dochira wrote:^ My wife's a teacher....so I completely understand. :patpat:

YAY! :glomp:

It's a grand job when all is said and done. There's something really rewarding about it.

dochira wrote:^ My wife's a teacher....so I completely understand. :patpat:

My sister-in-law's a teach, too. You should hear crap about "the idiot kids in my class..." :hehe:

I wrote this blog entry on teachers.

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Legacies. It's such a daunting word for the younger ones. Only now do I appreciate teachers and professors. Seriously. Aside from parents, they are the ones who can easily leave a legacy behind. I look back in my educational years and some of the most profound truths in my life have been learned from some select individuals who taught me in that 4 corners. It actually makes me want to be one. Go ahead and leave the legal field in which I need to prepare for battle every single day to just teaching and leaving one liners that might change or shape the future generation.

Teachers shouldn't undermine their chosen path in life. Students on the other hand, should learn to appreciate teachers more. I guess the rule to appreciating teachers is akin to the rule of appreciating your parents. You tend to appreciate them more once they're not there anymore. So, general rule applies: Better show you're appreciation while they're there.

bmwracer wrote:
My sister-in-law's a teach, too. You should hear crap about "the idiot kids in my class..." :hehe:

Oh, I hear it everyday. Those students should be glad I'm not a teacher....except I may end up on the news at some point. I tend to have a short fuse.


...and I'm a programmer, so go figure.

littlemissfab wrote:I wrote this blog entry on teachers.

[i]
Legacies. It's such a daunting word for the younger ones. Only now do I appreciate teachers and professors. Seriously. Aside from parents, they are the ones who can easily leave a legacy behind. I look back in my educational years and some of the most profound truths in my life have been learned from some select individuals who taught me in that 4 corners. It actually makes me want to be one. Go ahead and leave the legal field in which I need to prepare for battle every single day to just teaching and leaving one liners that might change or shape the future generation.

Teachers shouldn't undermine their chosen path in life. Students on the other hand, should learn to appreciate teachers more. I guess the rule to appreciating teachers is akin to the rule of appreciating your parents. You tend to appreciate them more once they're not there anymore. So, general rule applies: Better show you're appreciation while they're there.

:shamefulcry: :glomp:

You've made my day.

bmwracer wrote:
My sister-in-law's a teach, too. You should hear crap about "the idiot kids in my class..." :hehe:

yea but in reality those idiot kids are the ones that make our job so much fun!

Wynter wrote:yea but in reality those idiot kids are the ones that make our job so much fun!

Yeah, without them you wouldn't have anyone to talk about. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, without them you wouldn't have anyone to talk about. :hehe:

LOL yesh. And I find I'm more myself in the classroom when I have behavourial issues to deal with. Kids who are attentive and always raise their hands really freak me out... hence my being afraid to teach I.B.

wow.. my bro-in-law was a teach, he just got promoted to art director for LAUSD...

krim wrote:wow.. my bro-in-law was a teach, he just got promoted to art director for LAUSD...

WOW! Congrats to him. What did he teach prior?