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hideincarnate

Substitute Teaching Day 2

Oct 19, 2010 19:24

I got called by three different schools this morning. One of which I have YET to visit and hand over my business card/profile sheet/resume. Which I guess means that the schools are reloading/updating their active subs database, which is a good thing ( Read more... )

good day, work, america, layne

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glitterburn October 20 2010, 09:05:54 UTC

The kids sound cute :D I hope you can get something permanent at one of the elementary schools!

hideincarnate October 20 2010, 12:24:29 UTC

They are. I have determined kids around the world are cute. But American kids sure are confident. I didn't have any child cry they can't do it or don't like it or hate it. They simply say they need help because they don't understand. *tugs at her heartstrings*

I hope so too? I mean I'm just subbing for now...kind of a way to get my name and face out there and to like...see if this is REALLY what I want to do for the rest of my life hahaha. 8;D Elementary school = lots of energy!

glitterburn October 20 2010, 13:03:32 UTC

That's really interesting that the kids aren't afraid to ask for help. Were the kids in Japan more reticent about asking? The kids in my mum's class (6 to 9-year-olds) often didn't ask for help even when they needed it - seems counter-productive really but I think a lot of it was a lack of confidence.

Can you specialise in a subject in elementary school? My mum was an art teacher, so even though she taught all subjects, she taught pottery and cloth printing etc to the kids from other classes. Don't know if you have a similar system in the US but my mum did get paid extra for the specialisation!

hideincarnate October 20 2010, 22:23:50 UTC

The kids in Japan...if they had confidence, they were not afraid to ask for help. But if they were shy, or afraid of criticism/the teacher/that big white lady holy cow where did she come from aka ME, then they wouldn't ask. I mean in elementary school there was absolutely very little writing or reading - it was all oral and visual learning. In middle school, they did a lot of self-checking and I would go back through some composition notebooks and basically correct all their errors and put them on sticky tabs for them. (THAT WAS HELL.) But keep in mind I simply did English ( ... )

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placetohide October 20 2010, 10:06:37 UTC

QUESTION:

What is in American school lunches these days? Since you have seen them firsthand recently! Japanese people ask me this all the time but I've been out of school so long I don't know if it's the same as back when I was in mandatory education D:

hideincarnate October 20 2010, 12:29:36 UTC

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placetohide October 21 2010, 09:13:10 UTC

Oohh, thank you for all the links! Looks like good lunches to me!

I have nothing but bad memories of school lunch, not because they were horrible, but because my parents refused to pay for lunch, so I had to go 5 days a week every week with no lunch. So hungry!!

hideincarnate October 21 2010, 13:13:01 UTC

You're welcome! Yeah, they're pretty good! A bit different from when I was in elementary school, but pretty much the same as when I was in high school, except the bread. The bread was smaller I feel.

That sucks! I don't like your parents at all.