missas_fable ([info]missas_fable) wrote,
@ 2007-05-26 14:33:00
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Teaching rounds!!
Hi all

im currently doing my teaching rounds... and having a ball.. My pracs going amazingly... my supervising teacher is a 56 year old man who is pretty much the man version of me... god the man can talk :OP we get along soooo well and i spend the whole day laughing my ass off... hes abit burnt out.. and doenst like the system so much.. so he gives me an alternative view of teaching... hes also not at all proper with the kids(ie swaering etc) but they respond to that... hes also losing his memeory so ive kinda become his assistant... i remind him what he has and what he last did... its a running joke between us... and he keeps telling me he
wants to keep me so i can keep his things in order haha

The school im at is pretty much filled with refugees.. so the students are a bit messed up...not alot of them will go on to year 11... and they pretty much do no work... but theyre nice about it.. not like at pakenham (where i did my first rounds) where theyre violent and abusive...

I start teaching by myself next week... 4 of his 6 classes... ill be teaching 2 year 7s a year 8 class and a year 10 class... should be fun... I'll keep you posted as it happens..
Okies well i have about 18 lesson plans to write so i should atleast sit here and pretend to do them :OP

Hope everyones doing ok..

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[info]sootysmudge
2007-05-26 05:25 am UTC (link)
I'm interested in what you say about Pakenham. I still remember it as a small country town, but now its on the edge of suburbia.

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Not sure bout Pakenham but i do know about the school...
[info]missas_fable
2007-05-27 03:57 am UTC (link)
Not sure bout Pakenham the area... can only talk about the school.. which is a mess.. the students are or atleast a higher majority within each class are actually very aggressive/violent... I mean its normal for kids to act out or be cheeky.. but at Pakenham theyre trashing teacher cars and bashing their peers senseless... I had one student walk up to me in the playground.. and as he had his finger pointed in my face told me i better not be teaching me cos he hated my farking guts... i walked away and into the corridors only to have his mates slam the door into my back on the way in... these were year 8 students... there is no control and no respect... I have the greatest respect for the teachers who teach there... My current supervisor says pakenham never used to be like that.. he worked there many many years ago for 9 years... he thinks that its gone down hill cos of all the government housing theyve build there... he says a good 50% of the housing is government housing.. he says he wouldnt be suprised if there was a high level of drugs in the school too...

So did you used to live there? Or even go to Pakenham? I certainly didnt expect it to be as bad as it was...

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Re: Not sure bout Pakenham but i do know about the school...
[info]sootysmudge
2007-05-27 04:26 am UTC (link)
Most of my relatives live near by, my parents both came from that general area.

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Re: Not sure bout Pakenham but i do know about the school...
[info]missas_fable
2007-05-27 04:33 am UTC (link)
Ahh okies.. well dont get me wrong... im just talking about my experiences at the school.. If i had a kid i would send them somewhere else... The teachers try sooo hard... but its just not working.. Im not one for private schools.... I believe a kid has it in themselves to do well or not but in the case of Pakenham.. the peer pressure they would be under would be too much... and its not just the high schools.. something must be wrong in the primary schools too cos theyre rough and messed up in year 7 too... I really dont know what the answer is for them but i know that if Pakenham was my first teaching placement id probably be burnt out in my first year...

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