Teacher Frustrations
Hi. I'm Ria, second year public school teacher. Right now I feel like the kitty in this picture, looking up for help, trying to figure it all out, leaning on a wing and a prayer. If you know anything about teaching you will agree with me when I say that it is nothing like I imagined. I was hoping to be Ron Clark or Michelle Phifer from the movie, Dangerous Minds or something to that effect, but, I'm not. I'm just me, a young woman trying to figure it all out.
I love teaching, but it is agonizing , it is difficult , it is loud, it is disrespectful, it is undeserving, it is underpaying, and sometimes, it is belittling. I would just like someone to explain like really explain how to get kids under control.
I teach middle school in a Title 1 urban area. At the end of day I'm exhausted. I did not mention the mice and roach issue. I'm so tired of hearing build relationships. This means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. And for crying out loud if I attend another useless professional learning conference from some Beverly Hills teacher of the year, I will scream and resign all in one take. I am fed up. I am tired. I feel extremely incompetent because at the end of the day , I don't know how to teach behavior. How?
I taught my own kids by showing them, tapping their behinds when they did wrong , nipping things in the bud. That was from toddler to teenager, years of bringing up. So, how do I teach this to kids who has already been raised their way ? How? That's going to take time, lots of it.
Second of all, kids are acting up everyday , but we can not put them out of our class. Meanwhile students who really want to learn can't and are looking sad because like me they are frustrated. Can someone please help?
I need someone in the classroom with me to help out. Where is a good mentor when you need one? By the way I don't have one. This is only my second year teaching.
We've already had a teacher resign on the 4th day of school! Other teachers said before the teacher left she kept saying how she taught in the suburbs and is not use to this. She kept saying that statement, "I'm not used to this," the 4 days she was here. The following week, she was gone. I would do the same, but my husband and I are trying to get this house, plus I am receiving an endorsement paid by the board. Also, I have not received any call backs from the one position on base that I was hoping to get. I am so ready to get this year over with, but meanwhile I need all the help I can get to make this as painless and quick as possible!
I will keep you posted on how the year goes. I would like for new teachers to learn from the mistakes I have made. I wish someone would have told me certain things and I would have made wiser decisions. It was so dumb of me to sign this contract again. So I say learn from me. Don't make the same mistakes I did.
I'm going to try to survive this. God is my only hope.
"I can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me strength."
Keep you posted!!!
I love teaching, but it is agonizing , it is difficult , it is loud, it is disrespectful, it is undeserving, it is underpaying, and sometimes, it is belittling. I would just like someone to explain like really explain how to get kids under control.
I teach middle school in a Title 1 urban area. At the end of day I'm exhausted. I did not mention the mice and roach issue. I'm so tired of hearing build relationships. This means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. And for crying out loud if I attend another useless professional learning conference from some Beverly Hills teacher of the year, I will scream and resign all in one take. I am fed up. I am tired. I feel extremely incompetent because at the end of the day , I don't know how to teach behavior. How?
I taught my own kids by showing them, tapping their behinds when they did wrong , nipping things in the bud. That was from toddler to teenager, years of bringing up. So, how do I teach this to kids who has already been raised their way ? How? That's going to take time, lots of it.
Second of all, kids are acting up everyday , but we can not put them out of our class. Meanwhile students who really want to learn can't and are looking sad because like me they are frustrated. Can someone please help?
I need someone in the classroom with me to help out. Where is a good mentor when you need one? By the way I don't have one. This is only my second year teaching.
We've already had a teacher resign on the 4th day of school! Other teachers said before the teacher left she kept saying how she taught in the suburbs and is not use to this. She kept saying that statement, "I'm not used to this," the 4 days she was here. The following week, she was gone. I would do the same, but my husband and I are trying to get this house, plus I am receiving an endorsement paid by the board. Also, I have not received any call backs from the one position on base that I was hoping to get. I am so ready to get this year over with, but meanwhile I need all the help I can get to make this as painless and quick as possible!
I will keep you posted on how the year goes. I would like for new teachers to learn from the mistakes I have made. I wish someone would have told me certain things and I would have made wiser decisions. It was so dumb of me to sign this contract again. So I say learn from me. Don't make the same mistakes I did.
I'm going to try to survive this. God is my only hope.
"I can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me strength."
Keep you posted!!!
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