School Notes: Headache
Mar. 5th, 2007 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
learnteach1. In the recent testing, the other teacher had a 70% pass rate. I had a 70% fail rate.
2. Students are still doing other teacher's homework during my lectures and fighting me about it. Solution: LECTURE LESS. More work, too. But that means a lot more prep.
3. With 3 different classes to prep every day, one prep period is NOT ENOUGH. Remember: don't take a class unless you have the curriculum handy.
4. It's so depressing (#1) that I went and asked that teacher "How?" as in "How can I improve?" Her answer? Go get 7 years of experience. She's being hired back next year to teach half days, yay for the students.
5. They offered me the physics position for next year. I refused; the district has lied to me too many times...and I don't think I'm right for HS anyway.
6. There are still way too many shitheads in my classes--I think that's a fact of High School, but this is getting bad. Every class has at least one idiot looking to prove he's better than the man, every day. Often, two, who try to feed off of each other.
2. Students are still doing other teacher's homework during my lectures and fighting me about it. Solution: LECTURE LESS. More work, too. But that means a lot more prep.
3. With 3 different classes to prep every day, one prep period is NOT ENOUGH. Remember: don't take a class unless you have the curriculum handy.
4. It's so depressing (#1) that I went and asked that teacher "How?" as in "How can I improve?" Her answer? Go get 7 years of experience. She's being hired back next year to teach half days, yay for the students.
5. They offered me the physics position for next year. I refused; the district has lied to me too many times...and I don't think I'm right for HS anyway.
6. There are still way too many shitheads in my classes--I think that's a fact of High School, but this is getting bad. Every class has at least one idiot looking to prove he's better than the man, every day. Often, two, who try to feed off of each other.
