Secondary Thinking about becoming a teacher

[raskolnikov]

what do you do with your time in lessons where you have like 5 students present.

it's exam week and i've got a split year 9/10 class and like 90% of my class has ended up being year 10s and they're all absent as they're not required at school for exams.

it's a snoozefest now and it's only going to get worse

If you have laptops give them a project on a topic of their interest. For example, if they're into footy get them to research a topic involving footy and make a presentation in a format such as PowerPoint.

 

[raskolnikov]

I heard on the radio this morning the possibility of paying kids $50 a week to attend school. Thoughts? IMO it will create a lot more problems than it will solve.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I heard on the radio this morning the possibility of paying kids $50 a week to attend school. Thoughts? IMO it will create a lot more problems than it will solve.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[mcgrath_truther]

If you have laptops give them a project on a topic of their interest. For example, if they're into footy get them to research a topic involving footy and make a presentation in a format such as PowerPoint.

i ended up giving them a small project about the english language which ended up being interesting and engaging for them, thankfully

 

[burge13]

I heard on the radio this morning the possibility of paying kids $50 a week to attend school. Thoughts? IMO it will create a lot more problems than it will solve.

Why would this even come up as a possibility?! whoever come up with this must be on the drugs they confiscated off the kids they want to pay to come in

 

[pacemaker]

Why would this even come up as a possibility?! whoever come up with this must be on the drugs they confiscated off the kids they want to pay to come in

Soon enough the students will want to use teachers as their own personal slaves and have everything done for them. Wait I think this is already in progress .

 

[Jack Richards]

Teacher bashing season in the Herald Sun with 2 articles in one day:
Teaching methods to blame for poor Maths Results..

There was another one about the increase in teachers "rushing" to get students diagnosed for funding.

There isn't a rush, just more students being picked up that teachers are needing to make extensive adjustments that are going above and beyond what we physically and mentally can do.

 

[Jack Richards]

Don't the Herald Sun realise there is a teacher shortage and that these articles aren't helping?

I had a student teacher ask me if the profession is worth sticking around for as she wasn't sure if the outside hours and behaviours were making her question if the 4 years was worth persisting.

 

[pacemaker]

12 or 13th year and although I don't want to learn or do anything else given certain financing would it be possible to have one year on and one year off. I might be going crazy as teachers do but the way it would work is, you pick up a 12 month contract in a place that is remote and struggles to attract teachers. After that year is done you return home and well don't do nothing you work relief (if you can make it work) it's possible to get 2-3 days a week to make ends meet ( assuming you are single) or have a very supportive partner who will be the "bread maker". Holiday pay would be the major down side but would cancel out with no assembly items, reports IEP, SEN data entry, planning, assessing, constant parent meetings ect.

Anyone thought of this or have done it perhaps over a 2 - 4 year period?

Maybe even 6 month contract then 6 months off they are floating around.

Thoughts?

 

[raskolnikov]

12 or 13th year and although I don't want to learn or do anything else given certain financing would it be possible to have one year on and one year off. I might be going crazy as teachers do but the way it would work is, you pick up a 12 month contract in a place that is remote and struggles to attract teachers. After that year is done you return home and well don't do nothing you work relief (if you can make it work) it's possible to get 2-3 days a week to make ends meet ( assuming you are single) or have a very supportive partner who will be the "bread maker". Holiday pay would be the major down side but would cancel out with no assembly items, reports IEP, SEN data entry, planning, assessing, constant parent meetings ect.

Anyone thought of this or have done it perhaps over a 2 - 4 year period?

Maybe even 6 month contract then 6 months off they are floating around.

Thoughts?

I did CRT in Melbourne for a bit. Pros are little admin work. In at 8:30. Out at 3. Also if you have a shit class you only have them for one or two days. Cons are no holiday pay and you don't get to build a rapport with the students. Not if you're going through an agency and working at a different school every day like I did anyway, If I did CRT again I would get in with one school. We have a CRT at our school who only works with us and so it's like she's a regular. The kids wouldn't even know she's a CRT. Also, teaching primary CRT is a lot more fun than secondary. Primary kids, especially the younger grades, love having someone new in the class and they're like putty in your hands. Secondary kids just love seeing how much they can get past you. Primary I actually felt like I was teaching. Secondary was basically monitoring them while they do their work and making sure they don't kill each other. When I retire I may do 1 or 2 days a week at one school to supplement my super but it's not something I would do as a career choice.