First Year Teacher Survey?
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I wish I had known how much paperwork and "fluff" was involved.  After student-teaching, I was SO EXCITED to have my own class and just TEACH.  I was motivated and had fun, interactive lesson plans on which I had worked VERY hard.  However, when I started out the school year, I quickly realized how much fluff there is - committees, meetings, paperwork, demands of your time from administration, etc. and felt that I wasn't really being given much time to do what I truly loved and what brought me there in the first place...to TEACH.\n\nI learned to be as efficient as possible and use your planning time VERY effectively so that those things can be minimized and put to the side...as they should be.  Then you have more time with your students, who are all that really matter.\n\nHope this helps!  :o)\np.s. I have taught third and fifth grades...mostly third.
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give me the information needed for the survey
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ask them nicely to demonstrate for you, so that you get a better idea of what exactly they want from you. if they can't, i don't think they have a clue what teaching is about. if they do a good job, then just copy it.
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25 in Minnesota. My social studies teacher is running eventually and has offered me a spot on his staff. Pretty sweet offer hehe
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go to a website where you can create a rubric....they have great suggestions which may work for you...your assessment should depend on what you actually taught and worked on....I'm thinking of edHelper or rubistar.....
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Congratulations to you, and a hearty cheer for taking on such a challenging task.\n\nI arrived mid year once to teach 8th grade English and History.  The situation was not as...degenerated as you describe, but it was tough for both sides.\n\nI think others have given valuable advice.  These kids need structure and enforcement of rules, whether they know it or not.  Make your rules fair and apply them equitably and you should have some success.\n\nI do disagree with the idea of using a Homework pass as a reward.  Don't we assign homework because of it's value to learning?  Letting a student earn the privilege not to do an assignment completely dilutes its educational value to the students left doing it.  Other rewards are certainly useful, though.  Stickers actually work to motivate a lot of kids.  Even though they're in 10th grade, they'd still like to bring home a "refrigerator paper" to show mom and dad (or whoever's at home).\n\nI think you also need to acknowledge out loud the things many of these kids have gone through outside of school, as well as the turmoil they have faced in school with this course.  Lay out your rules early and often.  Follow through with disciplinary action, but be a nice, reasonable person.  Find out what the school administration would consider success for this course this year, tell the kids, then go for it.\n\nBest wishes.
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Being a teacher myself....I would want to see why it is important, who should do it, who should you respect, how you show respect, and how if you show me respect, I'll show you respect!!  Hope this helps.
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I am a second grade teacher in Corpus Christi, Tx. Sounds like a great idea. Let me know more if you haven't found anyone yet.
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I am a 3rd grade teacher at an elementary school in California.  My class collects box tops and we would gladly accept your donation if you're still feeling generous.  We use our box tops for field trips or extra incentives for homework excellence.  Thanks for writing!
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Your administration should provide you with standards, I would think?  Or ask another teacher for examples?
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a little, because you have to change classes, and keep your books in a locker, and have 6 or 7 teachers.  Be brave, have a friend who knows where some of your classes are and make friend with your teachers.  They ARE there to help you.  don't forget that 400 or so other people are feeling the same way you are.  If I were you, I'd go before school starts and find all your classes and make a map.  That way you're not fighting crowd, and you can get familiar with the layout of the building.  Talk to the staff at the office, and just be friendly!  It will be hard at the begining, but it will get easier! good luck!
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Well i love my alg 2 teacher cuz he makes the class fun and really cares about us. My english teacher is compelelty crazy. I think she really is from another planet, she is so fun to mess w/. My Human Anatomy and Physiology teacher is soooooooooo boring, but he's still cool. Last my World Cultures teacher is a real b***h. She loves to give us 2 projects at once, as if we don't have any other classes, and she doesn't give us notes or anything!
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I think it's fine for teachers to come here and ask for advice/suggestions to use as effective teaching tools/techniques. \n\n But when teachers-or any other professional for that matter- come here and ask the general public to provide them w/information that they need and is the basis needed to perform their job...in a teacher's case---curriculum, then maybe it does come across as being "lazy".\nBased on the past questions you've asked, there's not really anything there save but 1 or 2, that you couldn't have typed in your own search for....probably within the same amount of time it took for you to log in and post your question here....and the info found could've been printed out in the same or less time then it takes for you to keep checking for posted answers.\n\nTurn the table here...how do you feel when you see students on here asking us to provide them with the FLAT OUT answer to their homework questions--with NO explanations.  They don't want to know nor do they care HOW it's done, they just want to GET it done.   Perhaps that's the light some see your questions in?
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Ask an employee a question about how they like work, and viola! You have an employee survey question!
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Are u a fifth grade Teacher??????????
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The first class should introduce the children to what they are going to learn the rest of the year as well as your expectations for them as students. You might have them do a little bit of reading and writing, or any other part of English. For example, read a short story together and have them write about the story (retell the story, give their opinion, rewrite the ending, etc...). Be sure to introduce your procedures for completing and turning in the work. Good luck!