I'm a teacher ask me anything

Any of the topics to do with differentiation and integration really.

Nothing in C2 do they particularly struggle on?

Sorry if these questions have been asked already!

How much time do you commit to marking books etc. at home each night?

Do you feel this heavily impacts on personal life?

Would you recommend teaching to someone who is considering it? (me )

If you did recommend, what advice would you give?

Sorry for the spam of questions

How important are A levels? And if you failed would you retake it? Or do a access course I'm really worried that I'm wasting my time since I am 18

I ended up getting E's and D's but I truly do believe I could have done a better job at it, but the problem is my college won't allow for me to retake my exams

I'm currently thinking about doing that since I really want to university next year, I'm wondering if it is possible for me to do the full A level in one year in a private college or either go into higher education and do a access course for one year

What do you think of teachers who don't ever finish teaching the syllabus and as a student your forced to learn it all on your own?!

Just out of curiosity, looking back, what were you like as a student?
As a teacher now, how would you perceive a similar student?

Great thread, btw! Inspiring to see that you're trying to connect with students yet you're still able to keep it professional! You seem like a credit to our education system!

I'm reluctant to put all the blame on the pupils. What's become clear to me since I've started teaching is that these problems would be pretty much eradicated if these students had strong, firm discipline both at home and at school. The outrageous reluctance for some parents to discipline their 'little angels' and the absolute cowardice from some senior teachers is the cause of these problems. That combined with the media glorifying airheads such as Kim Kardashian, David McIntosh and Lucy Meck who spend most of their lives taking selfies and going to parties as 'role models' is also to blame for the fact that students (yes, even some from middle and upper class backgrounds) treat the education system and its teachers like pieces of ****.

Rant over (apologies for any grammatical errors).

Couldn't help but think of this quote from Matilda!

'It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful...
School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports.
If I were a teacher...a particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying, "Fiona has the same glacial beauty as an iceberg, but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely nothing below the surface."'

Gotta love Roald Dahl


If you were given the chance, is there any other career you'd like to go into? (Don't think I've worded that well)

Would you ever like to live in a different country? If so, where?

34 pages...wow...not sure if someone's asked this before, but I don't want to look through every page.

I'm starting teacher training next week and I guess what I'm most anxious about is the workload. Do you have a good amount of free time still, or do you spent every night and weekends doing work? (this question applies for during the teacher training and then once you've got a job afterwards)

I was never disruptive but I was disengaged and lazy. I would always do the bare minimum in class and at home. I didn't revise for my GCSEs at all and missed my target grade on every single one, including maths.

I find it difficult to deal with students like this since their behaviour does not automatically demand attention. They know exactly what they can get away with and will always do just enough work so as not to get a detention. I will tell them that they need to put more effort in when I speak to their parents at parents' evening (assuming that they turn up - my parents never went to a single one). I will comment in their book that they need to up their game and keep an eye on them a bit more in the lesson.

The trouble is that there's usually something more pressing to deal with in a lesson; someone will be getting ready to throw a plane across the room or someone will be shouting obscenities relating to another student's mother and my attention will go away from the disengaged student who is sitting quietly twiddling his thumbs.

Again, I'm shocked that teachers have to deal with this sort of thing. What was your home life like as a kid?

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