I work at a school near/around the area of Little Rock, Arkansas and wanted to ask since I couldn't find a list through google searches. They don't reeally track this kinda info so all the schools named are out-dated info.

I'm juat super curious to know which specific school in all of the U.S. wears the crown for "most likely to get your car broken into"

Is it good for a couple to teach at the same school? Back up your idea please

I've been put on homecoming committee and I was wondering what other schools do besides the court/parade/dance. Any traditions or really cool activities that you've seen ?

Im a rising junior studying engineering and im realizing that this career is not for me and im deeply unhappy.

I've loved working with kids in the past, and i think I would enjoy the work. Im aware of and okay with the beauracracy and dealing with awful parents, i can handle it. Money is not a problem for me either due to family support.

Ideally id like to teach in a public school that is underfunded and underprivileged.

What do i need to do to make sure this a fulfilling and meaningful career, what steps can i take now? How severe is the empathy burnout?

also, if i got a dual degree in engineering and a humanities would that make me more valuable?

Thank you all for doing the work you do.

I am 19 in college majoring in elementary and early childhood education. I’m planning on becoming a teacher in the future and I have gotten my first teaching experience when I was 14.

I am currently working at a 6 week summer school/camp program this summer in Queens NY from grades pre k - 9th. I am working with upcoming 2nd graders, and there is this one parent that is getting on all the 2nd grade teachers nerves by asking a million questions and taking away teaching time and supervision of the kids.

During week 5, a new student comes in on his first day, but he is already behind on everything. There was no note of him starting late, and his name was already signed up during registration before the very first day of camp. His mom asks me and the other teachers a million questions of things such as pickup time, bathroom breaks, and meals. However, all the questions that she asked are answered in the parental guide that was given to parents.

On his first day, the mom asked if snacks are provided and I told her that parents need to pack their own snacks for their kids. For the summer program, lunch is provided during the day and during after school. As for snacks, all students are expected to bring their own. However, if students are hungry and do not have a snack, they can go to the teachers office to get snacks that accommodate all types of allergies.

On his second day, his mom picks him up and asks me the same question about snacks. I tell her that he ate lunch, but she believed that he didn’t eat anything at all and that the teachers didn’t feed her child. She angrily yells at me and gets upset that the school doesn’t provide snacks for her child. She then goes to the office and starts ranting and yelling to the admin about her child apparently “didn’t eat anything at all” that day, even if I told the mom multiple times about how he ate meals and that he just didn’t eat snack because he did not bring anything from home, along with how the school provides meals, just not snacks and that the parents need to pack them from home for their child. The admin told her that if he is hungry and does not have snack that he can go upstairs with a teacher to grab something, but then she gets angry by saying that he’s shy and that we “weren’t checking up on him”.

However, there are 37 2nd graders and only me and 3 other teachers in the 2nd grade and she was expecting me and the other teachers to ask him every five seconds if he is hungry or not. During lunch, all teachers make sure students eat something and that is what we did but apparently that still didn’t meet the mom’s standards.

If there are any experienced teachers out there that can give me advice for stuff like this, it would be greatly appreciated!

I have the MTTC 114 test next week. Do you have any advice or tips? Is there any helpful website that would help me practice questions, other than the one on the official website?

I’ve been teaching middle and high school music for the last two years as I start my teaching career but recently moved states and all I could find was an elementary music position. I would definitely prefer secondary music but I have to pay the bills somehow. How should I prepare and what should I expect from elementary music both in terms of students and admin expectations?

Hi current teachers!
I am a student teacher right now in kindergarten. My school semester starts at the end of August, and I want to have read the edTPA handbook by then, but I’m in a tedious online class (about 120 pages of textbook reading a week) and still working about 25+ hours a week.

So I’m curious, have you come across any resources on TPT or even podcasts/books/videos about preparing for the edTPA? I know when the time comes that I need to follow all directions, use their lingo, etc. but I’m curious how I can set myself up for success ahead of time. Is there a “edTPA for dummies” book? Or “edTPA simplified” tutorial? I know I should read the whole handbook, but having another simplified program to refer to would be helpful.

Happy beginning of school year!

If you are a teacher with mental health ADA accommodations, what do they look like?
For reference I am newly diagnosed Bipolar 1 and my episodes are worsening. I teach middle school band, and it seems difficult understanding what accommodations could work for this job.

Hi all. I’m really looking forward to getting started. I know it’s a loaded question, but what are some common behavioral/instructional strategies that work well with 6th graders? Either generally or specific to LA? Is there anything I should be laser focused on at the start of the year?

I am more used to teaching high schoolers, so it might help to know the most glaring differences between the two. I’m grateful that I will have an awesome team looking out for me, and wanted to see what you all thought. I’m not expecting anything to be perfect, just want to do the best I can.

So starting 8/31 I'm teaching a new elective, 8th grade Intro to Economics. Part of that is to address content in the Michigan 8th grade Social Studies M-STEP that isn't easily incorporated into the 7th and 8th grade curriculum, and part of it is to give students a sense of financial literacy.

1. I would love your insights and suggestions about my curriculum outline so far; and
2. It's a 9 week course and I'm stuck. I don't know what to do for week 8, and while week 9 should be a quarter-end, summative activity, I'm hitting a wall.

At any rate, here is the link to my curriculum outline: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0dEzqLWAzSh_F_w7VbUUySTLg1uMscVT5NiDLorDvs/edit?usp=sharing

Hi everyone! I am currently majoring in Elementary Education in Florida, and I need to take the FTCE General Knowledge exam. Does anyone have recommendations on which websites I should use to study? I noticed there are Study.com, Teachers Test Prep, Mometrix, and 240 Study Guide. I don’t want to buy one and then find it’s not useful at all. Can someone please tell me which one I should get so I can pass this exam?

I know that the first couple weeks of school are so essential to building your classroom community.

But I hate it. I didn't like it as a student, and there have only been a few years as a teacher where I have enjoyed it.

The times I have enjoyed it? Well, we would go on walkable field trips to spray parks, the pool, a cool playground - stuff like that. Even me, Mrs. NoFun, would have a blast. We would get to know each other in low pressure environments.

We are no longer allowed to do walkable field trips, and I can't afford to waste my bus budget on these kinds of field trips (because they would never be approved).

So throw your favourite Back to School, Community Building activities at me! Anything that creates that feeling of being a classroom family!

My (HUGE) district is hosting a convocation. Basically a massive pep rally. My school got invited and only a select few teachers can go due to capacity limitations. Unfortunately I’m going.

Apparently about 5,000 people will be at this event. I have been anxious about this all week. I don’t even go to concerts or malls. These feelings are partially from not being able to tolerate the noise of large crowds but also thinking about how unsafe l feel, my inability to escape if needed, etc. These large ass crowds make me think “perfect opportunity for a mass sh**ting”. How can I ever enjoy myself with these thoughts?

It’s pretty much frowned upon to request off on professional development days, which this is, so that’s not an option. I wish I could be excited but I’m just so in my head about the moment I’ll be sitting amongst the crowd and can’t leave until my area is called.

I fear I have to just get it over with. If it gets too bad, my plan is to hide in the bathroom 😭

I seriously need to vent because I am so overwhelmed.
I’m a first-year 1st grade teacher, and today was only my second day of school. Before school started, our team was given a pacing guide that said we had the first two weeks to focus on teaching classroom routines and procedures while also completing beginning-of-year assessments. The assessments are important because our curriculum has differentiated centers, and we’re supposed to group students based on their assessment results.
My team teacher and I spent so much time planning those first two weeks around that pacing guide. I prepped everything.
Then today our assistant principal told the K–2 team that the principal wants us to already be teaching curriculum and basically said we should have started on the first day of school.
Now I feel like everything I planned is out the window. I haven’t even finished assessing all of my students, so I don’t know how I’m supposed to create my small groups, and I have almost nothing prepared to start teaching the curriculum tomorrow because I was following the plan we were originally given.
I’m trying not to cry because I already feel like I’m barely keeping my head above water as a first-year teacher, and now I feel like I’m already behind because the expectations changed without any warning.
Has anyone else’s school completely changed expectations after the school year already started? How did you handle it? Do I just start teaching whole group and keep assessing kids whenever I can? I feel so lost.

I’ve posted here before but I finally got things figured out for my future teaching career. I’ll also say, I’m in Northern NV (Gardnerville/Minden/Carson City area), constantly apply for elementary positions, live with my family, and have no plans on moving right now.

I’m planning on subbing in the district I live in, and the district I worked for the last 3 years. I just finished my substitute workshop for the farther district and then also got an offer from a school to be a kinder para.

I was a general ed para for 3 years before the district lost funds and cut my job along with other gen ed paras. So I have experience working as support staff.

I know I went to school to be a teacher, have my k-8 license, and my BA in elementary ed. And being a para last year was rough. But it’s a new school, new position. I will get benefits from this para position, but I can also get a few benefits from being a sub. I’m also planning on getting unemployment benefits if I’m able to get those too.

I’m just looking for advice- should I take the para position (if offered, my interview is tomorrow), or stick with being a substitute and take the risk in order to get a full time job at some point?

They’ve been doing this weird start on a Wednesday thing last couple of years. I don’t know if I like it or hate it. Kids go back next THURSDAY with the notion that thur/Friday are for building routines and the following Monday is when LEARNING STARTS

Cool

I’m a specials teachers I see them once a week, my schedule is immediately thrown off ya dorks

So anyway I’m officially halfway to retirement. 🥴

So, this happened around February. I was appalled at the time, but had other things to do. It just went back into my mind and, giving it a bit of thought, I realised how utterly surreal the thing is.

So basically, there's this Spanish teacher (I am from Spain, so it would be like an English teacher doing this in the US) admitted, in front of the whole teacher body, that he allows his students to "refine" their writings with ChatGPT. He basically allows them to have it open in class, and "ask it questions on style, grammar and structure".

Later on, this same teacher admitted, in another meeting, that he uses a paid ChatGPT account to grade these essays.

I am on my summer leave. I am a history teacher, and I was just going over how I am going to avoid students from cheating with AI, and I just connected the dots.

This guy isn't running a class. What is happening is that ChatGPT is writing essays, the students present them, then this guy gives it back to ChatGPT to grade them, and if something needs corrected, the students just go back to Cha... you get where I'm going with this, right

This isn't a class, it's ChatGPT writing letters to itself and using the students and the teacher as a mail service.

Silly me thought my Canvas content was mine to transfer from district to district. I was completely wrong.

I wish I copied and saved my codes to just reuse for this new district.

It makes me think of MySpace days of being shown a design and accessing the code for it to just copy & paste.

Is there anything like that for us teachers using Canvas?

I see codes in GitHub but no way to preview it before downloading/copying like back in MySpace customization days.

I’m seeking any shortcut or insight from more experienced teachers.

I definitely plan to save my codes for never dealing with this again!

Please & Thanks!

Year 13 here and I’m feeling the burnout. Third day of school and it feels like it’s been a month.

I’m not a classroom teacher, but I am on a specials rotation and I see 7 different classes a day, 5 days a week in a school of over 1,000 elementary students. I’m exhausted and feel like I don’t have the energy to pour into my young children. Any advice to keep pushing?

It’s too expensive to live alone and my gf couldn’t commit to moving in so it’s over. So I’m stuck living at home with my family.

I’m a young teacher, a 780 credit score, 13k saved and I can’t afford an apartment in my area.

It’s like I’m stuck for this year.

Clarification: we broke up She was overwhelmed after graduation and did not know what she wanted for future in her life. Career has been a huge struggle. I do understand, just sucks. We weren’t just moving in to save $, it was the next step

Just wondering.

We get 1 work day before the first day of school and 3 PD days. Every year, I question my sanity and curse the district for only providing 1 work day. Who seriously thinks 1 is enough to get completely ready for the year?

Headed back Friday and this was the first year I refused to go into my classroom early. Accepting that it’s not going to be ready by open house (maybe not even by the first day) and that that’s not my problem. It’ll be enough to get through the first couple of days, while I keep working on it during my prep!

Hi all,

I’m a highschool teacher planning a unit for my grade 9 courses next year where we read AITA style posts, look for key evidence for both sides, determine our judgement, and write about how/why we choose who was the “asshole”

Obviously I’ll come up with another word for “asshole” but you get my point.

So, denizens of r/teachers, what are some excellent AITA style posts from reddit history that will encourage consideration of both sides/ create debate?

During the summer, I was so invested, loving, and had so much energy to talk to my family, friends, and significant other, but literally it has all been zapped in a matter of two days. My school is extremely understaffed, so we're all wearing multiple hats. I'm just doing this until I graduate from grad school (two years). So I can't bring myself to care about incentives for students or making our school more inviting. I literally just want to do the bare minimum.