Being a teacher sucks
Actually want to cry. Think I might.
The end!
I finished on a really high note. The kids were engaged and responsive and the lesson itself was all mine and it workd so well. I now have limerick calendar anthologies as proof that I can and have taught these kids something new.
It was a happy day.
Now I get to spend the rest of December sleeping. Zzzzzz ....
;_;
I just got home from the pub. I didn't even get a break. I have to be up in 4 hours. I'm teaching three classes today. I've been wearing the same trousers for twenty hours straight - not coincidentally the amount of time I worked or was in transit to and from places of work.
I'm so exhausted I want to cry.
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Epiphany!
It was also a really boring job, but I digress.
I thought teaching would be terrible primarily because you can't help but take it home with you. There isn't a choice. Between planning and resource-making and marking and reports and all that jazz, it's either take it home or not do it. And y'know what I've discovered? I'm okay with that. So long as I get a couple of hours immediately after school to myself, to eat dinner and veg out for a bit, I don't mind being up until midnight making PowerPoint presentations.
In other teaching news, I had my official university observation today. My class was Yr10, and they were sitting their controlled assessment, so there wasn't a great deal for me to be observed on, but I apparently did well and ticked a good few QTS Standards boxes. So I'm happy.
Two more observations tomorrow. Might see if I can get the third in with the second in 5th period. Asking for trouble, perhaps, but better them all out of the way.
Oh this boy! <3
Yesterday I was serenaded by an 11-year-old boy on his ukelele. He sang 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
<3
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Omg so much fail
Staffroom conversation: "did you see that tranny documentary on tv?"
Fail: "He. She. Whatever."
Fail: "I wouldn't go on tv with that kind of stuff."
Fail: "You must feel really strongly that you're in the wrong body to have this surgery!"
Fail: "Some of the girl ones are quite pretty. One of them doesn't want surgery, she's happy just being a tranny."
They're loudly discussing gender reassignment surgery. The ignorance is utterly astounding, and these people teach our kids. I think a couple are from science ffs!
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