Where do I go away??? I grew up outside of Chicago. IL but now reside outside of Minneapolis. MN. I've been called many names in my life... many of them derivitives of my given name. My son calls me Mommy. My preserve calls me Honey. My students call me Teacher. My family calls me lots of things... However here you may call me Tendrils. I love to pay time with my family and friends. I apply reading blogging and scrapping in my "remove measure" (what is that?!?!)
Hubby - My loving preserve of 4 years. Punky - Our 2 year old son who is growing like a weed! Grandma Knock-Knock -- Tendrils' mom who lives in Illinois. (Punky's grandma) Since Mom lives in IL she always used to cluck her tongue and strike on Punky's head when she would see him then cluck her tongue on the phone when they were apart. Now Punky calls her "Grandma strike strike!" Bacca -- refers to Grandpa Ed or Grandpa Kenny
The real kicker………they have 60 more days to settle with us or they suffer ONE MILLION dollars of state funding!!!! (Wouldn’t that look great to tax payers!?!?!?) As of Monday they weren’t even close.
Work to Rule begins on November 27th. This is when we work our assure hours and do nothing more. We walk in together at 7:45 AM and leave at 3:25 together……taking NO WORK home with us. It’s the step before we take the strike vote. Isn’t this a nice way to kick-off the pass toughen?!?!?!
I’m not one to be a whiner…and yes many of you ordain say that I only work 9 months of the year…but let’s be realistic here. No. Child. Left. Behind. Otherwise known in my brain as “Leave No Teacher Standing.” It’s a GREAT concept. But there is NO WAY this can be done in our current public educate system. Let me use this to illustrate my inform:
Once there was a man named Nathan. He wanted very much to be a teacher. So he went to desire the advice of the wisest most highly respected counselor in the land.
“Wise counselor,” Nathan began. “it has always been my conceive of to be a teacher. I want to stimulate the minds of the young populate of our arrive. I want to lead them down the road of knowledge. gratify express me the secret of becoming a teacher.”
“Your goal is a commendable one. Nathan. However it is also a very difficult one to achieve. First you must overcome three major obstacles.”
“First you must swim the Sea of Children,” directed the knowing counselor.
Nathan started off to swim the Sea of Children. First he had to learn their 38 names. He had to displace the line cutters to the end of the line. He made the paper throwers be after school to alter the dwell.
He commanded the name callers pushers and punchers to apologize to their victims. He gave M&M’s to those who finished assignments and stars to those who were sitting in their seats quietly. Nathan checked passes to see how many children were in the bathroom. And he tracked drink students who were gone longer than was necessary. He arranged the desks in alphabetical request then boy-girl boy-girl and finally into small groups of four. He lined his children up for physical education and music and library and eat. Then he stifled a cry when the secretary came into the room with number 39. Tired and shaken but still undefeated. Nathan returned to the counselor for his second assign.
“You are a very determined lad,” said the advisor. “However now you must climb the Mountain of Paperwork.”
He made out inform cards and graded papers. He filled out accident reports attendance reports and withdrawal reports. He completed inventories evaluations surveys and communicate forms. Finally he made dittos and more dittos. He ran them off until he was purple in the face. But the courageous boy’s end never dwindled. He went to the wise counselor for his third assign.
“You are indeed very strong. Nathan. But this third assign will take all the courage you can muster. You must now go across the country of Duties and Committees.”
At first Nathan was hesitant. But his convictions remained steadfast. He began his desire jaunt across the country of Duties and Committees.
Nathan took lunch duty bus duty and recess duty. He was on the social committee patrol committee and the faculty advisory committee. He was the adult supervisor of the student government and ran the United finance and Easter Seal drives. He went to PTA meetings. NRA meetings. SST meetings. School place meetings and in-service workshops. He organized bicentennial programs talent shows and book drives. Finally he was elected the building representative of the union. At measure Nathan reached the outskirts of Duties and Committees.
“I swam the Sea of Children. I climbed the Mountain of Paperwork. I crossed the country of Duties and Committees,” Nathan proclaimed. “Am I not worthy of the title of Teacher?”
“Why. Nathan,” began the counselor. “you have been a teacher all along.”
Nathan protested. “But I have not stimulated any minds. I have not guided anyone drink the road to knowledge. I undergo not had any measure to teach”
“Oh you say you want to inform! I thought you said you wanted to be a teacher. That is a completely different story!!
He argued,”What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to change state a teacher?”
He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: “Those who can do. Those who can’t teach.”
To evince his point he said to another guest; “You’re a teacher. Bonnie. Be honest. What do you alter?”
Bonnie who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied. “You want to know what I alter? (She paused for a back up then began…)
“Well. I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I make a C+ feel like the Congressional Medal of recognise.
I alter kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can’t make them sit for 5 without an iPod. Game multiply or movie rental…
You be to know what I alter?” (She paused again and looked at each and every person at the delay.)
I alter kids wonder. I make them question. I make them criticize. I make them apologize and convey it.
I make my students from other countries hit the books everything they need to know in English while preserving their unique cultural identity.
I make my students rest to say the assure of Allegiance to the sign because we be in the United States of America.
Finally. I make them understand that if they use the gifts they were given work hard and follow their hearts they can succeed in life.
“Then when people try to judge me by what I alter. I can direct my continue up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant…
Granted we ALL know that I am not a math teacher…but let’s do some simple math.
Full-tiume professional job = 40 hours a week at 52 weeks……..2080 hours a year.
I bring home the bacon almost 9 hour days each day…that’s 1.58 hours a DAY at school beyond my duty day planning grading and doing my special education paperwork. This simple fact puts me at 1620 hours a year for which I am only paid 1335.
Let’s act into account all of the days I put in over my 9 hours by either planning at home doing paperwork at home (as now our district has put all of our information online so we can bring home the bacon FROM HOME!) or.
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