so, I have finally found some employment, in the form of substitute teaching. Last Friday was my first time and I got to work as a substitute librarian. Pretty nice, albeit a little on the quiet side. HA! the thought that I ever complained about that makes me laugh like a prima donna, first lady of the hour.
BECAUSE, today I substituted for jr high history and it wasn't quiet anymore. It was pretty much full-on insanity. just like the movies--teacher leaves; cut to the sub, head down on her desk in despair while ADD ridden cretins run around the room yelling. At lunch (30 min.) it was all I could do to sit there dumbstruck after the bell rang and the last hellion had filed out of the class. I think I sent out a few distress signals.
help me. I've been swallowed by a whale. a pre-teen whale.
I've always been a teacher that didn't have a firm grasp on discipline. I remember now, that would sometimes frustrate me with my missionaries and with my anatomy students. But this is on a totally different level. this is nuts.
I'd say 50 bucks isn't worth a day of this strange hell. but I already had to put so much money upfront (14 bucks for my TB test; 15 bucks to run my fingerprints), plus my pride/desire to be master of all I see. I mean, here I am handed a weakness on a silver platter. shouldn't I make a go at making it a strength? but I may die trying. Really. I may die.
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ugh, jr. hugh. That strange planet of in-between-ness and way too impressionable minds. Oh yeah, and they have no respect for their elders. Try living with a few...
but wait, it does get better.
Discipline?
For Jr High kids?
Are you serious?
It is my (first hand... from being in Jr High) experience that discipline only works if you where a trucker hat and whistle, and are teaching gym. No, I think your best bet is to focus on your strengths... either that or make them suffer. Insert wicked laugh here.
I feel so bad for you. I keep thinking about this jr high teacher I had that everyone decided was lame and they pulverized her. she was really sweet and nice, but kids are so terribly cruel.
anyway, just learn from your experience and choose your future sub jobs more carefully. avoid jr high? avoid history? or find out discipline methods and have a strategy ready for next time? kids are a whole 'nother ballgame from missionaries or college kids. I am not interested in being a teacher (probably mostly because of what brats kids can be!), but when I taught in korea, I explicitly looked for a job teaching adults because I didn't want the headache of discipline. anyway, power to ya. just don't die, ok? (what about the sushi restaurant?? you could be eating sushi all the time!) ;)
wow. i feel for you sister. maecy did her student teaching in jr. high. she had one thing going for her- being pregnant. it sounds wierd, but she was so grouchy with all those pregnancy hormones that she'd give a kid just one of her "you-better-not-ever-try-that-again" looks and they would behave, for the most part. but she would never want to go back to teaching jr. high. good luck with the task ahead of you. you can do it! you can do it! I love you!
Pretty much yucky. It sounds a litte like the problem we are having with our sunday school class. Lesson? What lesson? Pretty much big stink heads. Mindy is doing her student teaching right. Maybe she has some pointers.
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