I am feeling better ( Read more... )

So school has started. I made it through my first week. It's really really full on but I'm loving it and coping ridiculously well. Very proud of myself. It's a really tough school. Just about every kid has some welfare issue or learning disability. Every kid has very low literacy skills. It's a massive change to what I have been used to. I've had ( Read more... )

I am feeling somewhat more positive today.  Not feeling all that sick anymore.  I got two classes worth of reports done yesterday plus a job application.  Go Eltham High School!  Why are all the jobs in the middle of nowhere? Bloody annoying ( Read more... )

I am so unimpressed with the world today.  Maybe even moreso than yesterday, and I was pretty pissed off yesterday ( Read more... )

It's time again to write a reflection on my time at school for my uni tutor.  So i figure I'll slaughter two birds with one rock. :P

I can't believe I have been teaching for 10 weeks.  Sometimes I feel confident that I know what I'm doing, and then there's times when I feel like I'm drowning.  These feelings can, and often do, occur to me in the ( Read more... )

It's been a tough week.  Really freaking tough.

Somewhere near the middle of the week I had my short stories class and it was a bit nuts.  I kept 6 kids in at lunch time on detention.  STILL they didn't do what I wanted them to do.  A teacher came in and yelled at them.  I didn't ask her to and I'm not overly happy that she did.  It's the second ( Read more... )

I've had complaints from my fan base that I haven't posted in a while.  My bad.   So here goes ( Read more... )

And then there was period 6 today.

Remedial Year 9/10 English.

I can't control them.  They laughed in my face.  They wouldn't stay in their chairs.  They wouldn't do the work because "what's the point, you're gonna fail me anyway" or "I'm leaving school at the end of the year so i don't care".

I am angrier with myself than with them.  I know what I ( Read more... )

I wrote the following reflection for a tutor at uni who is going to use past student's experiences as a teaching tool.

Week One (and a half)

As you know, the school year started with a heatwave.  Thanks a bundle, weather gods.  I felt incredibly nauseous on my first day of school even though I wasn't going to be meeting the kids for another couple ( Read more... )

Oh gods I am glad it's the weekend!!  This week has dragged and dragged.  Today I got myself all worked up for apparently no reason.  FOR NO GOOD RAISON.  I had a meeting with the English supervisor idiot and I was really nervous about that.  I had to show him a plan for next week and today.  I thought he was going to dismiss it, laugh at me and ( Read more... )