Substitute teaching

[Yoblonda]

Here is a URL regarding the agenda to remove Christianity from society at large. In a nutshell, it discusses the role Horace Mann, the "Father of the common public school", and Robert Owen, one of the fathers of modern socialism, and others.

http://www.littlegeneva.com/docs/education.htm

Another URL regarding general moral decline in the United States and Horace Mann's purposes.

http://www.jewsformorality.org/moral_decline.htm

I've been in the schools. I taught 7-12 science for five years, two of those after I had already been burned out once and took a break to raise my children to school age. In Missouri, the average new teacher burns out and quits the public school system after 3 years, never to return. Sadly, with only five years of experience, I've got more teaching experience than >50% of the Missouri teaching population. Most of the burnout is due to the fact that the average teacher works 60+ hours a week during the school year, discipline is at an all time ineffective low, and the state's demand for continuing education for certification. It is difficult to find balance in your life as a teacher.

Life as a substitute is better because you have time to live your life outside, but in the classroom it can be worse because in the students' eyes, you're not a "real teacher". IME, the classes who behaved best for substitutes faced double the consequences for misbehavior upon the teacher's return.

Good Luck,
Yolanda

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> Are you into philosophical debates? </font color>

Not really, but I am into keeping the Subject the same within a thread and not changing it. [img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Yoblonda]

You and rozett began a discussion on 9/23/04. You mentioned the imbalance of christians represented in the visual media, and rozett talked about the parent's abdication of responsibility for their children's education. Horace Mann's agenda to promote socialism was implemented both by deliberately separating children from their parents, thereby limiting the parents' influence on their children's philosophies, and by setting up teaching schools (Normal Schools) to influence what teachers eventually taught.

The establishment of teaching schools and state certification has, by implication, led the parents of today believe that when it comes to their child's education, they are inferior to those that are formally trained, leading them to leave education to the professionals, when in fact the opposite has shown to be true. Studies have shown that by the time a home schooled child reaches the 8th grade, he or she is functioning on average 4 grade levels above publicly schooled peers.

I thought that the links I provided were relevant to this discussion. Besides, I personally believe that it is never a bad idea to know the historical contexts that brought us to our present state.

I did not mean to offend, and apologize if I did.

Yolanda

[Gatorboy]

Please don't change the Subject heading. When I look at the recent posts, it appears you have started a new thread when in fact you have not.

[RikBallard]

I enjoyed reading your perspective on this topic and I certainly don't mind you changing the subject line at all. Sometimes we just have to out run the post patrol. [img]/forums/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> Sometimes we just have to out run the post patrol </font color>

Muhammad,

Any chance you can implement the same safeguards here on CBN as you have on TBN as far as changing the subject line?

I know you are aware of the problems it causes.

[Yoblonda]

I'm sorry. I misunderstood. [img]/forums/images/icons/blush.gif[/img] I should have realized that leaving the subject line intact was what you were getting at. I personally prefer the different subject lines because it helps me to keep track of who is responding to whom. But it's not everyone's. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Yolanda

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> I personally prefer the different subject lines because it helps me to keep track of who is responding to whom. </font color>

That works great for forums that are threaded-view based -- however CBN and TBN are more flat-view based. You can tell who responded to whom by the Re:Username after the Subject Line.

If the subject needs to change, that should be an indication to start a NEW thread and not morph the original one.

[RonNY]

Dave,My husband shared this site with me and I got interested in it. I also was a sub, then I got a full time teacher aide position, working with children that had learning difficulties. Each student had a unique way of picking up a subject and when I was able to get their personal way down pat the rest of the year was fun. This year I am challenged with teaching a student who cannot talk, learns by touching and eye contact. It was scarry at first, and now I am looking for new ways to communicate with him and I and everyone observing us are amazed at how much he has accomplished. By the way a sub in rural central NY gets $50.00 a day.
'Good Luck.

[CJDave]

[img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I have taught several classes where some of the students had resource specialists right there in the room with them. Sometimes the students are pulled out for part of the class, and sometimes they stay the whole period. I am familiar with the "consulting role model" concept where the resource specialist identifies the learning style that works for the kid and then shows the teacher how to teach to it. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] I have also had classes where the professional "disrupters" are catered to by resource specialists who take them elsewhere to teach the lesson for that day. One of those brats came back after about half a period and I could see that he was cocked and ready to disrupt the class. I gave him a look that would melt cast iron and told him to sit in his seat and be quiet. That was the last I heard from him for the rest of the hour. [img]/forums/images/icons/mad.gif[/img] It's sometimes an advantage to be an "unknown quantity" to these kids so you aren't locked into the routines that they use on their regular teacher. [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]