Posts tagged teachers

What do you do if your mentor teacher is “out to get you”? My mentor teacher distinctly does not like me (and hasn’t since the moment she met me), and to finish the semester off, she has been sending in negative recommendations. What do I do? 

After trying to teach through the “love” that was in the air, today, I am a firm believer that Valentine’s Day should be banned from school. It is such a distraction for the kids… and can end up being pretty darn creepy! Students giving me love poems and asking me (in all seriousness) to be their valentine… it’s just downright awkward! 

Is there any good reasoning to allow students to celebrate Valentine’s Day at school?

At the end of each school day, I am absolutely exhausted and all I want to do is crash on the couch and zone out.

Sooooo….

As a teacher, how do you manage to stay in shape?

I took a summer class on World Literature through a community college to help finish my degree. While I thought this would be a wonderful course, seeing as I love world literature, I was greatly mistaken. For an assignment, we were required to come up with a character that lived in Vietnam in 1965 and develop that character over a period of time. The character was to be used as a way to gain insight on Vietnamese culture. When I attempted to make my character an outsider gaining insight on a foreign culture, my professor informed me that it is impossible to gain insight on a culture if you are a foreigner. You can only accurately observe a culture if you are a native of that culture. 

Now tell me, if this is a professor, what does that say about those who are instructing the future teachers of this nation? What kind of education is the country actually providing when they support notions like this?