Their final results came in today. They did well! Yipee!!
Their final results came in today. They did well! Yipee!!
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
School swimming carnival today so I've just checked my e-mails. One of my lovely colleagues sent this around:
YOU MIGHT BE A TEACHER IF...
* You want to slap the next person who says "It must be nice to have all
those holidays!"
* You can tell it's a full moon without looking outside.
* When out in public, you feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behaviour.
* You can 'hold on' until after lunchtime playground duty.
* You can go to the loo, take a phone call, have a conference with a colleague, tend to first aid and have a cup of coffee in 20 minutes.
* You check for spelling and punctuation errors in every piece of writing you see.
* You walk around shopping centres wearing face paint, stickers and a daisy chain, and don't even notice the stares.
* You look 50 before you are 30.
* You can't pick a name for your unborn child as every name reminds you of a student.
* When you can't get your friends to listen to you, you put your hands on your head.
* You rate the educational value of cartoons.
* You count you life in periods of ten weeks (depending on term length).
* You can sing all of the words to Advance Australia Fair (even the 2nd verse!)
* You can't go anywhere without thinking 'what a great place for an excursion!'
* You cringe at the way bank tellers grip their pens.
* You don't know the date, but you know it's day 5, week 4, term 4.
* You believe the staffroom should have a Valium salt lick.
* You believe 'shallow gene pool' should have its own box on the new reports.
* You believe that unspeakable evil will befall if someone says "Gee, the kids sure are mellow today."
* Meeting a child's parents instantly answer 'why is this child like this?'
* You believe in the aerial spraying of Prozac.
* You get a warm inner glow when just one childsays "thank you for helping me.
Then I noticed the student I mentioned in this original post had sent a catch up note. It was sweet but it left me worried that he's finding the big world a lonely place. It's hard when you're shy.
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
I was a teacher for two years and still do this- to the consternation and annoyance of my fellow mods. Now I have an excuse.* You check for spelling and punctuation errors in every piece of writing you see.
This explains a lot.* You can't pick a name for your unborn child as every name reminds you of a student.
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I don't understand the part highlighted in red.Originally Posted by Beekeeper
AKA Silver Firefly — If I had to reincarnate as an animal, I'd choose to come back as a bonobo.
~ Manipulation is a tool that's too often abused.
My son's teachers do something else- they 'catch a bubble' (close and inflate your mouth) in preschool, and in elementary they do the peace sign (two fingers)- silence, like magic.
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Gemma said,
It's a common primary school practice in Australia (I'm a secondary teacher so we don't do this*). You get kids to put their hands on their head and it quietens them. I guess the theory is that they can't do two things at once. I think the catch-a-bubble idea is better since it requires a closed mouth.I don't understand the part highlighted in red.
CF, I bet it was fun in your classroom! Now if I could only convince you that clowns are good too.
*Having said this, with integration/mainstreaming the way it is, I now find myself with children with mental and emotional ages of 5 and 6 in my classrooms, including two Down Syndrome girls who I'm teaching for a second time this year. They're cute though.
"A dream is a question, not an answer."
(Therapist and dreamworker Strephon Kaplan
Williams)
Ah, thanks for explaining...
I've never seen anything like this when I went to school (well I finished school about 9 years ago).
AKA Silver Firefly — If I had to reincarnate as an animal, I'd choose to come back as a bonobo.
~ Manipulation is a tool that's too often abused.
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