Reblogged from bluprint
What a brilliant cartoon! So accurate. It’s true that the training and courses we take before taking our first steps as an NQT really doesn’t prepare us for that moment when little Mikey throws the chair and we’re all alone in the classroom…
(Source: vidbeau, via iamlittlei)
Just found out that my assistant principal’s wife, who is a good friend of mine, and an elementary school teacher in the district, has been non-renewed for next year because of test scores. I am in shock. She and her husband had a son 5 weeks ago, are planning a wedding, and just bought a house. I cannot possibly imagine the stress and heartbreak they are experiencing.
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg (film still)
“During 1926 cold winter, all the horses from the hippodrome fled away after the stables went on fire. Their only scape-way was the river. But they all froze before managing to reach the opposite side. Their sculptural heads with terror still in their eyes served as a leisure park that season. I wonder in which moment the following spring carried them out into the sea, without anyone noticing.”
(via kateoplis)
No really. I have to explain this stuff.
Just received my evaluation to round out my 2nd (contract) year of teaching. AND it was positive, which is a double-plus. We get the opportunity to add additional information to our evals on why we’re so great/why we should be hired back next year, and I was able to give all the following reasons…
Whew. I think (hope) I have succeeded in getting my claws in deep enough and in enough places that it will be *very* difficult to dislodge me from my position come renewal time.
Tomorrow is a parent/teacher conference exchange day for my school. (READ: vacation) BUT we’re getting a foot of snow right now, so it would have been a snow day. I hope the superintendent thinks of this when it snows later this Spring and he could call it either way. I had so many plans for how I would spend this day! On a brighter note, dry January is over, and one of our gifts over Christmas was a “wine of the month” club, which is actually a “case of wine of the month” club, so we won’t be thirsty…
Attended a court-ordered meeting for a highly truant student. The other teachers went before me and said nothing but negative things about the boy to the mother and court case workers. Mother took it pretty well. I began by telling her that my son is doing great in my class, no behavior issues except one. Explained that he flipped off another student during class in order to get attention (which was acknowledged by all his teachers to be his biggest issue) and the mother turns to the translator and says, “I don’t believe her. What did the other student do to deserve that?” I assured her (via translator) that I was watching the whole situation, the student was working, her son called out to him, and flipped him off. She repeated “I don’t believe her.” Keep in mind, I’m the ONLY person at that meeting who had anything nice to say about her son. I went into my Vice principal’s office and vented and found out he’s always at those meetings unless it’s for that student because the mother hates him too. It’s really hard to separate the mother’s behavior from the student now. So angry.
