How lax would you say you are on cellphone use? One of my math teachers let me use my phone once I finished the day's lesson and not distract other people with it.
Any experiences with teaching a class with a weird kid in it?
[QUOTE=Riller;44156710]Close the drawer again, draw no attention to it. Once kids are out on recess, dispose of it, wash hands. Bringing it up would absolutely destroy any hopes of attention for the class.[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's true. If you did, that would be a wrap for the day.
[QUOTE=redback3;44157505][video=youtube;eswQl-hcvU0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswQl-hcvU0[/video]
Do you have to take any qualifications among what you want to teach? I want to teach film/photography in a college (what comes before university) for a couple of years before I go into camera trainee work.[/QUOTE]
I didn't, no. I'm not allowed to do chemistry experiments or woodworking class, though.
[QUOTE=Octopod;44157565]How lax would you say you are on cellphone use? One of my math teachers let me use my phone once I finished the day's lesson and not distract other people with it.[/QUOTE]
Not very. It's distracting to everyone, even if you're not doing anything distracting. Just knowing that one kid is allowed to play with his cellphone will distract all the others, in my experience.
[QUOTE=Tibbolax;44157599]Any experiences with teaching a class with a weird kid in it?[/QUOTE]
Loads. I'll see if I can remember some when I get back from work.
Ever had a situation with bullies picking on a certain kid during your classes?
What's your last name so I can know if I run into you at my school and ask "Are you that dog guy from Facepunch?"
How well did you do at school at the subjects you teach now?
[QUOTE=Gubbinz96;44157663]Ever had a situation with bullies picking on a certain kid during your classes?[/QUOTE]
Just the other day, yeah. I usually see if I can resolve it on the spot by talking to the bullies about what they did, but if not, I note down the names and pass it on to the teacher in charge of class, since I can't really do anything that carries over beyond when the bell rings on my own.
[QUOTE=gk99;44166299]What's your last name so I can know if I run into you at my school and ask "Are you that dog guy from Facepunch?"[/QUOTE]
No, you can't have my last name. Riller isn't my first name either. Besides, I'm in fuckin' Denmark, you won't bump into me.
[QUOTE=Bordellimies;44166443]How well did you do at school at the subjects you teach now?[/QUOTE]
Well, I'd hate to brag, but I was damn near a straight A student, only scoring lower in German, physics and Danish - layout. My math is a little rusty by now, though.
As for anecdotes with weird kids, I do remember one now. I was teaching 6th grade 'nature and science', a combined subject of geography, physics and chemistry that kids around here have before they get the real subjects. Anyway, topic was geography for the day, with questions about how the earth was made. This religious girl in class put in nothing but young-earth creationist answers to all of the questions. 'How old is the Earth? 4.000 years.' 'What are fossils? Tricks put down by the devil.' 'How was the Earth made? By God in six days.' and such. Took me a moment after I saw the paper, before I told her that these questions were all related to the thing I had been teaching, so while I wouldn't say her answers were objectively [I]wrong[/I] (They were, but saying that would get me in a heap of shit), I would like her to answer based on what I had taught in class, to make sure she listened. That was a bullet well-dodged, I'd like to think.
She also has a less-religious twin sister, and they look and dress [I]exactly[/I] alike. I didn't know there were two of them at first, so the first couple times I was teaching that class, I thought she was a fuckin' switcher, able to move from the library to classroom and back again in the blink of an eye. Freaked me out, I tells ya!
How fast can a giraffe run?
[QUOTE=mochisushi;44168548]How fast can a giraffe run?[/QUOTE]
52km/h, or about 30mp/h.
Ever had many experiences of pupils sticking up for you when others are being shits? I recall it happeneing a few times in my secondary school years.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;44156968]I used to play Command & Conquer with my homeroom teacher[/QUOTE]
I used to play wow in 4th grade with my history teacher.
He asked if anyone knew what auction meant. I told him and he asked "how?". I replied with "a game." And he figured it out!
[QUOTE=Riller;44167606]No, you can't have my last name. Riller isn't my first name either. Besides, I'm in fuckin' Denmark, you won't bump into me.[/QUOTE]
What if I spontaneously move to Denmark?
First off, shameless self-bump, you'll know why in a moment. Second...
[QUOTE=Nightsure;44169011]Ever had many experiences of pupils sticking up for you when others are being shits? I recall it happeneing a few times in my secondary school years.[/QUOTE]
Well, once, after a 6th grade Danish class with a lot of noise and fucking around from the students' side, one kid came up and told me that he thought I did a damn good job despite the chaos. That was nice.
Then, reason for selfbumping... Today, being the uh... What're they called, teachers who watch over the playground during recess so kids can come to them if there's trouble; playground watchmen? Whatever. Doing that shitty-ass duty in shitty-ass weather, I was approached by a girl with sticky mud all over her. I ask her what happened; she fell. Alright; where did you fall? She showed me where; way in the back of the playground, by a couple trees and sure enough, a muddy pool. However, out the corner of my eye, I spotted a group of four boys age five to six; covering something up with their jackets as I approached.
"Hey boys, what do you have there?"
"Nothing!"
"Then why're you covering it up?"
"No reason."
Obviously, they were up to something they shouldn't, so I picked a jacket up and found [I]a pile of twenty empty beer-cans[/I], some with still a bit left in them; just y'know, a half mouthful someone didn't bother to drink. The kids had been spending recess fuckin' drinking old, half-empty beers they found in a god damn garbage can across the street. In kindergarden.
[sp]Sadly, this story doesn't have a hilarious, awesome ending. Reported it to their homeroom teacher who reported it to parents and management. Just, the fuckin' idea of five-year-olds drinking beer out of the trash at school. What the hell?[/sp]
What's the age range of kids you teach dude.
Teens? If so then be cool man.
Are you cool?
Also are you one of those boring 40-60 year old male teachers? Or are you one of those young looking 20-30 year olds with a head full of hair.
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