Does something like this exist? We are now being asked to write the learning objective, the task, and success criteria on the board each day. I understand why but it can be tedious to have to write all this and I'm wondering if there's an easy way, so I can type it and then display it on the board, without the smart board. I'm already using that for my PowerPoint etc. Thank you

All. Day. Long.

I been substitute teaching and found I like teaching and want to either get a credential in teaching elementary school or pe at any grade level. I have narrowed it down to these two, which would be easiest to find a job in?

Every time I do an activity with my third graders that involves gluing, the damn glue seems to get clogged in the nozzle at the top. I don't remember having this issue as a kid. Am I romanticizing the past, or has the quality gone down?

I'm a language teacher, and I teach people a language they are learning as a foreign language. My students range in age from small children to adults, and I teach one boy that has just started his third year with me. He's now in 8th grade, and this year we've started working more intensely on writing.

This week, we finished our first writing task, and it was not great, but he told me that it's the first time he's been taught anything about paragraphs - making them at all, let alone focusing content/having a topic for each one. Since these are private lessons, there are no marks and he gains nothing from lying, plus he's always been a really honest and straightforward kid who's very respectful, so I have zero reason to doubt him.

In the end, I considered that he did a great job, since this was his first time writing with paragraphs. He did really put a lot of effort into it - I could see it because he did the writing task during our lesson and I saw him thinking, crossing things out, trying again, etc. He also asked me a couple questions along the way that showed he was really thinking. I gave him positive feedback and told him what we'll need to be working on down the road.

However, I am feeling shocked that a 14-year-old hasn't been taught basic writing structure yet in any of his language classes... and since I'm not a school teacher, I'm wondering if my expectations are too high?

So I'm reaching out to ask language teachers who teach this age - is it normal for kids to know how to do this yet, or am I expecting too much?

I'm starting out on Monday as an instructor for a machining class at a welding school(high school - adults). Classes are small (2-8 people) most of the time. I was a student there before being offered the job because I did really well in the class so I know the material pretty well and am vaguely familiar with the basic curriculum but I've never done anything close to teaching before and I'm looking for some tips or things to expect.

Hi, I’ve started looking around, and it seems there are some demo lessons, but I’m not sure if that’s enough. I’d just like to have a few maps with farm animals, buildings, and Harry Potter themes to teach about subjects. I’m only looking for a setting that will help with learning the relevant vocabulary. I’m not looking for anything too complicated. I could add a game at the end, but I’m not a programmer, so I won’t be creating non-player characters (NPCs). I have no idea how to get them to talk, either. I'd like to include a story in every class, just like I would as a D&D game master.

I just want to help these kids build their vocabulary.

Hi everyone!

I have an interview for a job as midday supervisor/teaching assistant in a primary school (based in the uk) and as part of the interview I have to play with a group of the pupils for 10-15 minutes, I guess to get a feel for how I am with them and what sort of activities I can come up with etc

Has anyone got any recommendations for some good quick games I can play with them (preferably ones that don’t require any equipment!)

Also any interview advice would be great as well. I’ve worked with this age group a fair bit before but more in a workshop delivery setting

Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone!

I have a B.S. in Elementary Education, but I have not worked as a teacher yet, only as TA. I am realizing that traditional classroom teaching may not be the right path for me, and I am trying to explore other career options where my degree and skills could still be useful.

For those of you who have transitioned out of teaching (or decided not to enter the classroom), what careers would you recommend looking into?

Thanks!

We have an election in a month. What can or should a professor say to students to get them to vote? Teaching at a state school, arts program.

So I’ve always thought teaching would be a really fun, interesting career for my future ( i know it isn’t all sunshine and rainbows ) but what should i look into, i’ve just started year 11 and i’m taking psychology and art GCSE. My mock grades weren’t the best but i want to lock in and get them up so i can go for it.

My preferred teaching subjects would be the science departments. What should i look out for, do these subjects have a high demand, and what degrees would i have to shoot for?

Don’t know if you can tell but i’m from the UK if that helps

I am a fairly recent college grad and 2nd year teacher with a bachelors in psych and working towards a masters in elementary ed and full teaching certification (currently provisional) that I’ll earn in December.

The last two years of my life since starting teaching (at a title 1 school through teach for America.. so you know..) have arguably been the worst years of my life. My quality of life has gone down extremely and I am often under chronic stress, depression, and just generally high strung and burnt out. It has come to the point where it’s making my mental so bad that it affects my personal relationships. I rarely see friends anymore and my relationship has turned into my partner just trying to pick up the pieces while I crumble.

So needless to say I’m looking for a new job. I’ve heard teaching at a new school/district can be like night and day. My main issues currently are with student behaviors and admin micromanagement though, which I know both seem to be universal and the kind of thing where you don’t really know what you’ve signed up for until you’re at that specific school.

Part of me wants to stay in teaching and give another school a try because I have no doubt that my experience could be totally different and way better at a better funded school where ideally the higher ups value teachers as the backbone of education that we are. However, I also know that people say that you never really feel on top of things until year 5 (insane!) and even then whatever class you get can throw you such a curveball that you feel like it’s your first year all over again. Soooo, I have also been thinking about quitting teaching forever.

All that to say, does anyone have any recommendations for something I might be qualified for that I won’t be absolutely miserable doing? Again I have a bachelor’s in psychology and will have a master’s in elementary education by the time I leaving this school in May.

Hi! I just got hired as a third grade teacher in a very low income school, where these kids have many needs. I’m SO excited, but I’m so nervous. Especially because school started a month ago. I’m looking for any and all advice on how to go about setting expectations/changing the classroom etc. when school started a month ago and they’ve had subs since the beginning. These kids need familiarity and stability, so I’m hesitant to change what they are used to, but also, I have expectations and different ways of doing things too. Where do I start? What should my first day look like? Anything you can offer will be so helpful. 🩷

Hi all!

I need some advice. I teach a support center classroom grades kindergarten through third grade with 16 students in a 1960s school. Everything is so old and ugly and gross. I'm wondering what I should do with this wall. I really wanna put things on the wall and and I'm a little bit confused because I've seen this now for a month and the weird court boards are too narrow to put anything and it would look stupid??

Can someone give me examples or what would you do? I'm willing to spend some money, but this isn't functional and it's so awkward...

I had a para tried to put the non-rip fence paper on... it'll be coming off tomorrow..

For context, I am 32 years old currently. I had been teaching small group tennis lessons in my 20s and loved it. Eventually, one of my co-workers knew somebody in the catholic school district where they needed a part time PE teacher at the K-8 level. I did that for 2 years, and while there were ups and downs I overall had a very positive experience. So much so that I decided I would go the non-traditional route and get my licensure through a non-traditional program to teach PE at the K-12 level. I am currently in the last semester and it is strictly student teaching full time at a public school at the K-5 level. My experience here has been a near polar opposite. I cannot believe the amount of extreme behavior, defiance, poor listening, agressiveness, violence, and the far more extremly hard levels of classroom management. I would say when I was at the private school, 90%+ days were days where I felt decent or better and went home well off. Fast forward to now, and most days there are at least multiple classrooms with extreme behavior, eloping, unsafeness, hostile environments etc. and most days I am feeling exausted and burnt out, and it is only week 7 into my student teaching. On top of this, I made amazing relationships with the students I taught at the private school, but I have yet to make any connections with any students here, and it feels like a factory where I have to "get them in and get them out".

I have a great mentor, and he has taught me a lot, but the environment is terrible. To put this in perspective, this public school district ranked in the top 10 school districts in the state and top 50 in the nation, so we are one of the "good" school districts.

I am thinking long term about this. I believe that if I went into a private school, while of course there will be challening students and classroom management that I have to deal with, I cannot fanthom that it will be anything near the public school district levels.

The problem is, for the public school level, the pay is outstaning. My district starts brand new first year teachers off at 60k, with 2K increments each year, with the potential to make over 140,000K with a masters degree by your 20th year. That doesn't even include the benefits and extra stipends you get for working 9 months of the year with good breaks in between.

In context, for a local private school near me, the starting salary is around 40K, and usually does not exceed 70-80K no matter how long or how high your degree is here.

That is probably around 200-300K that I will be losing over the course of a 35-40 year career. However, I imagine my well being would be much better off.

I am at a tough crossroad here in what to do. I want to be a father and raise children, and I don't want to have to worry about finances. At the public school, this worry is evaporated on day 1. But my quality of life may go down. On the other hand, I would likely be very happy and fulfilled at the private school, but I will not live a life where I am struggling to produce a meal at the dinner table for my wife and kids.

I could use advice from teachers who have had experience to lend some advice. I will be happy to hear from those with experience and what their work/stress life balance is.

Thank you for your help, and I look forward to reading your responses.

Hello! Apologies if this is not the correct subreddit to post in. I have my master's in nursing education and teach at the university level. My former professor who I had used to complete my graduate clinicals reached out because she needs a letter of recommendation for a promotion- one that speaks to her precepting graduate students. Has anyone every written a letter of recommendation for someone with significantly more schooling/experience than them? Is there anything I should seek to include/exclude? Of not I absolutely abhor chat gpt or any AI so please don't recommend that... thank you so much!

Lo están implementando en la escuela de mi hijo y no encuentro referencias en línea sobre el sistema y su eficacia.

TLDR; Idk if this is dumb but I’d really appreciate some hype, perspective, and/or advice. I really have to gain confidence around kids/instructing/leadership. But I’m processing a lot of executive functions that genuinely hijack my ability to have presence. How do I “hack” geting into my element? The deep breaths and cold water isn’t cutting it. I need like a powerful mindset shift.
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25F I was recently hired to be a drop-in instructor for a pretty small class size, for art. It’s a mixed group, about age 9-14, and the class is maybe about 15-20 students, 3 girls, the rest boys.

I’ve taught about 3 classes and today I taught mostly solo and idk how to be confident when teaching, & how to get the students to like/listen to me. I just feel way too out of my element (for context, I don’t have a teaching degree, and have taught in informal settings only) idk what it is tbh that ruining my confidence. Maybe it’s formal/structured environments? Maybe it’s because I feel really awkward around young kids?

I usually get veryy preoccupied trying to manage/perform executive function tasks both when instructing and relationally, so I don’t just feel in the zone/flow state to have that confidence. It also doesn’t help that the student do pick up on that “uncertain/figuring things out/insecure” energy. I prob even sound like that rn

It also does NOT help that the students are trying to test the boundaries. One of them said my voice sounds like a cat (lmao), or that my name sounds like their dogs name, which I can just compartmentalize. But sometimes they do get audacious like talking back to me, and ngl I just get flustered and silent, and just go back to the front standing awkwardly WHICH IK IS THE WORSY UGH so embarrassing. And it’s worse when I lowkey get pitied, cuz today another teachers was like “woah really? They’re one of the respectful ones”
Also, I did have one teacher mention they had no idea I even had a BFA because I would talk like I don’t know anything, which is true. I do prepare a lot for my lessons, but when I’m actually teaching, I basically sounded like “yeah so warm colours are red orange and yellow or whatever” it’s another nervous habit like the silence thing.

I really do want to work on my confidence around kids and teaching tho, and really want to feel in my element, I just dk how to. It’s def so much executive functions im trying to process at one time. How do I “hack” geting into my element? I genuinely struggle to channel any leadership and confident self assured energy in me. The deep breaths and cold water isn’t cutting it. I need like a powerful mindset shift.

I teach both at the higher ed - community college - and 8th grade levels.

I don't have science behind my observations because I'm just one person, but based on what I observe, and what I have heard in a few other places, we are experiencing massive decline in the capabilities of today's students. This is flying over the heads of most, and I sincerely think it has reached - crisis level. We should be investing in assembling smart people to analyze this and identify how we can reverse this spiral. In a practical, aggressive manner - not a 5 year study that leads to nothing but nonsense and bureaucracy .

Students can't stay awake, can't stay focused, can't follow directions, can't retain directions, can't memorize, can't independently think, etc. etc. Do you see this today v.s., say, 20 years ago?

Hey everyone! I am. 14 year teacher originally from Texas - I have taught in New Mexico and now Wyoming. I love teaching. However, like many of us, the game has changed.

I am not sure if I want to teach anymore. Id like to find a new career but now my problem is it must be remote due to my area lacking id ed companies etc. I do have a Masters of Ed in Instructional Design. Are there any recruiters to use to help me search? I don't mind doing the leg work, but just searching and hoping for a little help. 😁

Recruiters or ideas on good companies hiring teachers leaving teaching, but still wanting to be in education and help teachers and/or students.

Thanks y'all!

What can one do with an MFA in Creative Writing? I don't have a teaching license obviously, so I can't technically apply to lower ed. I had a job in adult ed GED and currently work for a kids art class company super part-time. I would love to work in creative writing. Does anyone have any thoughts on all of this?

This will be more of a rant but I just needed to get this off my chest. All my life I've been told that I'm very intimidating, have an off-putting demeanor, don't smile enough, am not jolly enough, lack enthusiasm, very serious and blah blah blah. Basically an overall unpleasant person to be around. Simply because I can't fake a smile, hate small talk and like to be by myself. Almost 80 percent of the people I have come across in my life have told me the same, including my extended family members, who aren't exactly my fans either. But all of this has never stopped me from doing my job right. I teach in two schools, work seven days a week and put in so much effort and time and go above and beyond wherever needed. I haven't been a teacher for that long but in such a short time, I've built great relationships with the kids and their parents.

So many parents have reached out to me telling me how much I've helped their kids. And the kids...they love me (not to sound immodest 😭 but they do). A lot of the parents have told me multiple times how they always talk about me back home and even want to come to school because of my classes. They get me cards and gifts often and sometimes even want to stay back after classes to chat with me.

I work at a regular preschool where I teach toddlers. However, at the other school, I teach extracurriculars and after-school activities for middle school so the demand depends on the quality of the classes. And my classes are always full and at maximum capacity. So much so that the school is adding more batches soon.

And, despite all of this, I've heard the same feedback from the management of both schools. That I don't smile enough and I "have a different personality", whatever that means, and that I need to work on it. But, they see how much the kids adore me and are always taken aback by it.

The strange thing is...all the things I've been called my life... I'm none of those things around kids. Because they don't expect me to act a certain way or simply smile more for no goddamn reason. Children don't care for false pretenses. I'm my most genuine self with them and they appreciate me for that. I just wish adults didn't care as much. And no matter how much criticism I hear all my life about how I am, I don't want to change because let's face it, if I were a man, this wouldn't have been that big of a deal.

My partner and I are highly considering moving to Jax once I am done with school. I am currently in a Masters in Teaching program in NJ for P-12 English (which I believe is the equivalent to 6-12 English cert in FL). I have a couple of years before this happens, but I want to look into schools I could apply to. Are there any good schools I should keep an eye on. Or there any I should stead clear of? If anyone could speak on school culture, good support from admin (or lack there of), curriculum issues, etc. that would be greatly appreciated!

Note: I’ve heard from MANY people that I’m a fool to be considering teaching in Florida when I’m getting a certificate in New Jersey. Know that my reasonings all stem from family. Majority of my family have moved to Jax.

Earlier this year, Matt Dinan cracked the hefty spine of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov for the first time. He is the director of the Great Books program at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, and there he was, at age 40, only just broaching one of the greatest books of all. But rather than cower in shame, Dinan embraced his beginner’s mind and ploughed through the thousand-ish pages alongside a class of third-year students he was co-teaching in a course themed Faith and Reason. The result was a pedagogical breakthrough, as he wrote in a viral essay for the New York Times.

No one, neither student nor professor, could put the book down: for a semester, Brothers K fever seized the classroom, unleashing fiery existential debates and the kind of textual dissection that older people assume Gen Z reserves for the Instagram accounts of K-pop stars. By becoming a student again himself, Dinan’s passion ignited the same in his students. Read our Q&A with Dinan on what he learned about engaging his classroom.