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My Experiences and Advice
 My Experiences and Advice ... one? What are your qualifications? What are the ups and downs of the profession?Newest Review: ... day, looking forward to the day when it got easier. After two years I was told "Well it really takes about five years - you've got to see all the pupils through the school that were here when you started". I had also learned that the only way to get promotion was to move schools, which meant a life of constant angst as you settled in to school after school. Corporal ... more ... punnishment was banned, detention could be withdrawn at the will of the parent and that meant lines were the only punishment short of expulsion. Naturally, nobody did the lines because there was no stick to enforce it with. I wasn't even allowed to make th...more |
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My Experiences and Advice: Jobs From HELL (466 words)
by petehall - written on 26.03.02 (Useful, 97 readings)
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I have to support BNibbles in his honest opinion. As an escapee from the profession, I know that every word he utters is true. After many years in industry, I went into secondary education as a teacher of mathematics, remembering the disciplined learning environment of my days at school. What a shock, shootings, stabbings, vandalism to staff cars and property, theft, lies and numerous assaults on staff, and that was just my first year. "It'll take you a couple of years to settle in" I was told when I first arrived, so I slogged it out and worked hard at controlling the thugs that I was blessed with each day, looking forward to the day when it got easier. ...
You do have to go to school today. (824 words)
by jessyclown - written on 22.02.02 (Very useful, 150 readings)
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I am writing this as the wife of a newly qualified teacher. My husband had had a good job in the computing industry and gave it all up to follow his dreams of becoming a teacher. I look on from the outside at what teaching involves these days. I myself was a teacher a long time ago and I can see that it has changed a lot in the last decade. Let me first of all dispel a few myths. I get quite annoyed at times when people make these comments. 1) Teachers have long holidays. How often have I heard this well in some ways it is true they do have quite a lot of holidays 6 weeks in the summer, 2 weeks at Easter and Christmas and 3 further weeks. ...
My Experiences and Advice: Wanted- One Rhino To Teach Maths to 3B (2030 words)
by Nolly - written on 16.09.01 (Very useful, 111 readings)
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This might well be one of the toughest opinions I have ever written. I would like to write the definitive op for this section, but am worried that I will be caught up in a whirl of subjectivity. So please, please bear with me. The other thing that I would like to be is utterly professional, as befits someone in the teaching profession, so I will state now that if I mention the name of any school it will be fictitious, as will the name of any pupil that I mention. Teaching is one of those strange jobs, you know? It used to have the status as being one of the 'professions', but over the years its status has been subject to continual erosion by governmental ...
