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11 hours from now I will officially begin teaching my first ever class. Ive been working for over 5 years for this, with lots of time, effort and brainpower (and money), and it all starts tomorrow. Im honestly nervous but so excited to start.
I may even share how it goes on here! Wish me luck everyone 🎉
So my first day is over! Went pretty well honestly, but it hasn't really sunk in that Im a *real* teacher yet. The students are absolutely gorgeous. They're a big group (2 classes of more than 30) but no complaints from me.
Got given a duty day one which kinda sucks, but it was just the after school bus duty. Only had 1 kid run on the road (feelsgoodman). The professional learning after that was kinda useless unfortunately, 80mins of my life Im never getting back.
Excited to do some more teaching tomorrow and taking a more active role in the classroom
11 hours from now I will officially begin teaching my first ever class. Ive been working for over 5 years for this, with lots of time, effort and brainpower (and money), and it all starts tomorrow. Im honestly nervous but so excited to start.
I may even share how it goes on here! Wish me luck everyone 🎉
Fuck I feel so anxious about going into placement today. For my final placement I feel like it should have overall gone much better than it has. I have to finish getting ready and head off soon but Ill add stuff later I guess
So I feel better after teaching this morning but damn. Its been a long time since Ive felt that level of anxiety about something. Really hope I feel better by the end of today
Fuck I feel so anxious about going into placement today. For my final placement I feel like it should have overall gone much better than it has. I have to finish getting ready and head off soon but Ill add stuff later I guess
My personal teaching style is just so different to my mentors, and its made this whole placement really difficult. For context my placement school is relatively high socio-economic status (SES). Because of this, teachers can be a lot more lenient on low-level behaviours (minor distuption, not engaged etc.) as you see a lot less high level behaviours (trashing classroom, yelling/screaming, violence, non-compliance, absconding). In low SES schools teachers are a lot firmer on the low-level behaviours, as it makes managing the high level behaviours a lot easier. Essentially, the expectations of students tend to be higher and firmer the lower the SES.
My previous 2 placements (ones where Ive been teaching) have been at Low SES schools. Because of this my experience with teachers has been with those who set high expectations and are fairly strict (not overly) with students meeting those expectations. My current school is higher SES, which means that overall student expectations are not as strict. My current placement teachers are even more relaxed around student expectations, focussing on using relationships to manage behaviour. This is a perfectly fine teaching strategy, however it is very difficult for me to come into a classroom with this behaviour management style as I do not have those same relationships that they have.
Its resulted in a placement experience where I feel really out of depth. Some of the behaviours that is seen as acceptable/ok would result in students staying in at recess/lunch. I have to align myself with my mentors standards, otherwise the change is too great for the student, but their standards for behaviour are so low that I spend more time trying to sort out behaviours than I do teaching. Idk , I just feel like this placement has been the worst for me overall.
Fuck I feel so anxious about going into placement today. For my final placement I feel like it should have overall gone much better than it has. I have to finish getting ready and head off soon but Ill add stuff later I guess