Essentially Math

@jeu_desprit815 @FixingEducation Don't know what school you're talking about. Drop off at my school begins at 7:15 am and pick up runs until 4:30 pm, but it's a middle school. All elementary in my district offers after-school care until 5:30. Business hours. For free.

@EssentiallyMath @FixingEducation But schools don’t run business hours. Last time I checked, most folks don’t get off work between 2:15 and 3 pm

What do you think about a later school start?

@teachthemx3 Parents dont know this either. They think we are giving all these special things to their kid. They have no idea that its basically a rubber stamp that everyone gets. It's broken.

Just sat through one of my last IEP meetings. Can’t say I’ll miss reading through 20 accommodations that are listed purely for documentation purposes. Most (non-honors) students on my campus receive the same “accommodations” without an IEP: extra time, text-to-speech, check for understanding, hard copy of notes, repeated review, re-do assignment, etc. At this point, there's not a lot of "individualized" in IEP.

@FixingEducation 22 years in middle school math. Years 1-14 I was very happy! Then administration changed 3 times in 4 years, and the school went to hell, so years 15-19 were pretty miserable. Moved towns and changed schools and years 20-22 have been fantastic!

For research purposes: How many years have you been teaching? And on a scale of 1–10 (1 = strongly dislike, 10 = love), how much do you enjoy it? ⬇️ Comment below

@Principal_Jon Every grade level and subject has unnecessary standards. Whoever decides those things knows there needs to be enough to fill a 7-8 hour school day 10 months of the year. After all, school is free daycare.

Uncomfortable truth: Kids don’t need to know letter names to learn to read. Regrettable fact: Every state has naming letters as a kindergarten standard.

@JackDangerLIVE So my 2005, 2014, and 2016 beater cars just went way up in value?! Awesome!

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Buy 80s/90s trucks and never look back. 
This is how they kill personal freedom, one “safety” patent at a time. Ford & every traitor company behind this can go straight to hell. RT if you’re done being spied on in your own damn truck. 🔥 #FordSpyTruck #NotMyTruck #BigAutoIsTheEnemy #DystopiaNow

@FixingEducation Don't use student loans!

You can go back in time to the moment you decided to become a teacher. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 5 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. What do you say?

@educator4ever36 I've had that happen a couple of times over the 26 years I've been raising kids. I always did/do this kind of assignment for them. I make my kid sit and read or practice math facts, etc, while I do the word search.

Parents, if your child ever comes home with Word Search work, I give you permission to immediately judge the teacher as bad.

@MrMetacognition Show a question. No pencils, just discussion. 1. What do you see? 2. What kind of math is it? (I teach math) 3. What academic vocabulary is used? 4. Would you use a calculator? 5. Would you get this correct? Teaches them to analyze before attack and builds confidence!

Stop teaching content, start teaching exam skills... A statement which seems counter-productive, perhaps, to ensuring deep and thorough understanding from our students across the subjects that they are studying. Why should we teach to the exam? Now there's two approaches here. The first is giving students gimics and tricks to 'fluke' their way through an exam. No real understanding, but they know how to gain marks. Helpful in the last days and hours before an exam, but not a good long term strategy. The second approach is to make sure that students understand the exam questions thoroughly, so that they can deploy the knowledge that they do have (knowledge of self and knowledge of strategies). What do the command words mean? What structures are available to answer the question? Is subject specific vocabulary understood? Etc... If students know the stuff, but they aren't able to access the task, then this is an issue (knowledge of task). So as we enter the final weeks before SATs and GCSEs, we don't want to head to gimics, but we do want to spend time ensuring that students are able to understand the questions that they're being asked and knows how to deploy their knowledge and skills.

@KingONumbers @FixingEducation In some (I realize not all) schools, no teaching degree is required. A bachelor degree in anything and pass the certification test for your subject area. Plenty of people fit that, can't get a job in their field, and still choose not to teach. Wonder why?

@FixingEducation Because 94% of Americans are legally unable to be a teacher. They don't have a teaching degree. Are you just trolling?

“You have such an easy job!” “You don’t work many hours!” “You get to go home at 3!” “You get summers off!” “You have so many breaks during the year!” IF IT’S SO GREAT, why does America currently have the biggest teaching shortage in U.S. history?

@MccauleyAudra @Inspiredbylogih Yes!

@Inspiredbylogih @EssentiallyMath $22 k per year means teachers have a classroom budget to pay for supplies and don’t have to beg online for benevolent community members to pony up for notebooks.

We have a student who can't not get in a fight in the hall, so she has a behavior aide assigned to her all day. This person gets paid to just follow the kid around all day. No academic help, no behavior coaching. Stuff like this is another reason teachers can't get paid more.

@MccauleyAudra Yes!!

@EssentiallyMath Meanwhile, the school could have hired a tutor for 50 kids a week with that same budget. So ridiculous!

@Biochem115 I actually agree!

@EssentiallyMath Hot take: teachers should be paid less and have a max of 10kids to teach. Quantity over the absent quality. Bring back the farmhouse schools lol.

@groovyfinds @Industry3D Maybe a diagnosed behavioral issue. ADHD, Oppositional Difiance, Emotional Disturbance, etc. She has not been able to get a doctor to give her a diagnosis. Mom has tried. She's just a bully.

@EssentiallyMath @Industry3D It is for behavioral issues as well. I'm a foster parent. Most kids in care either have an IEP or a 504.

@educator4ever36 There will be consultants to study the root causes and administration to implement bought programs to try to attract and retain student population. $$$

How much do you want to bet the number of staff increases though?

@Inspiredbylogih The point is, this shouldn't be a thing.

@EssentiallyMath Those aides make like $22k a year, that’s not moving the needle at all

@Ricci1Jerome Yes!

@EssentiallyMath How about just kicking the kid out of school and let them get on with their life.

@BurgerHald Or have consequences. If she can't NOT get in a fight walking from English class to math class, then she shouldn't be in our school.

@EssentiallyMath This seems like a "divide and conquer" type of statement. The para in this example makes less than a cashier. They ain't taking funds from you. It's either get a para or more regular kids depart for private or home school. Drop in students lead to budget cuts.

@mchinegunkelli @educator4ever36 It shouldn't happen at all.

@educator4ever36 @EssentiallyMath It’s not prevalent where I live I should say. I can’t speak for others.

@PaulMclo @wonderlandmom What?

@wonderlandmom @EssentiallyMath Women are always trying to have their cake and eat it too