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Original post by Autistic Merit
This is a first. :angry:


Are there some kids who you wish you could hit?

Is it easy to recognise the kids with no friends, kids with the bad home life, kids who are trying to fit in etc?

Do you have any interesting parents evening stories?
Original post by stargirl63
Are there some kids who you wish you could hit?

As annoying as they can be, I would never hit them. I don't really ever hate them either. Every student I've taught has had at least some redeeming qualities.

Is it easy to recognise the kids with no friends, kids with the bad home life, kids who are trying to fit in etc?

Yes and you can feel helpless sometimes when you recognise this and realise that, bad home life in particular, is something you have no control over.

Do you have any interesting parents evening stories?

Parents' evening is always painful for me. There are always 2 or 3 parents who come in angry at my alleged picking on their daughter. The parents of boys are okay though usually.


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Original post by Amphiprion
I worked as a primary school teaching assistant for a year on my gap year in 2010/11.

I can summarise a primary teachers work week for you in terms of paper work/hours spent working.

Bare in mind, paid hours were 9am-5pm.

Monday - Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Tuesday - Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Wednesday -Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Thursday -Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Friday -Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Saturday - Mark books most of the day and begin writing lesson plans for the next week.

Sunday - Finish lesson plans for the week/maybe get the day off if you've been well organised throughout the week/on Saturday.


Mine's, in a way, worse than that because I'm never organised enough to get all my lesson planning done over the weekend so I end up doing a lot of my planning the day before the lessons get delivered.
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Original post by LostGear
Teachers are professionals


lmao at thinking being a teacher will override primal animalistic instincts that have been around since the dawn of our species

god you lot are dumb
Original post by Doob
lmao at thinking being a teacher will override primal animalistic instincts that have been around since the dawn of our species

god you lot are dumb


I hope you don't become a teacher then...
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Original post by Autistic Merit
I hope you don't become a teacher then...


i dont want to
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When students talk while you are speaking, does what they say sound like the whispering of Lucifer instead of mediocre kids? I'm yet to understand the source of burning rage that ignites inside the souls of teachers when they catch students in the heinous act.
Original post by Amphiprion
I worked as a primary school teaching assistant for a year on my gap year in 2010/11.

I can summarise a primary teachers work week for you in terms of paper work/hours spent working.

Bare in mind, paid hours were 9am-5pm.

Monday - Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Tuesday - Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Wednesday -Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Thursday -Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Friday -Arrive at work between 6:30-7am. Leave work between 5-7pm. Get home and mark books until you go to bed.

Saturday - Mark books most of the day and begin writing lesson plans for the next week.

Sunday - Finish lesson plans for the week/maybe get the day off if you've been well organised throughout the week/on Saturday.


You've almost put me off primary teaching now. How the hell do you get time to relax and unwind with your partner/relatives if all you do is mark after school?
Original post by Fact
When students talk while you are speaking, does what they say sound like the whispering of Lucifer instead of mediocre kids? I'm yet to understand the source of burning rage that ignites inside the souls of teachers when they catch students in the heinous act.


If you don't stop them then even the good students will start doing it. If they're talking while you're talking then, chances are, they're not listening to you.
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this vampire girl is ****ing thirsty
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What's the hardest thing about teaching?

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Original post by zuzu096
What's the hardest thing about teaching?

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Behaviour management - in particular, pack mentality.
What do the teachers really speak about in the staff room?


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Original post by Secretnerd123
You've almost put me off primary teaching now. How the hell do you get time to relax and unwind with your partner/relatives if all you do is mark after school?


I exagerrated a little, but honestly only a little. It's not far off. To answer your question about when you have time to unwind, half term and summer holidays. :redface:
Why did you get into teaching?

Best thing about teaching?

If you have people in Yr 12 do you ever tell them to use TSR for it's university information or study help?

Do you ever search for your homework questions to see if they appear on TSR from your students asking people for help?
Original post by Amphiprion
I exagerrated a little, but honestly only a little. It's not far off. To answer your question about when you have time to unwind, half term and summer holidays. :redface:


Can't that timetable potentially ruin relationships (like marriages) as the couple have like little to no time to communicate as the teacher in the relationship would probably be shattered by the end of the day? :redface:

Is it possible to mark straight after school so you don't have to do anything at home?
Original post by Amphiprion
I wanted so bad to write "mark boobs untill you go to bed" changing one simple little letter could turn that from a nightmare job to the best job ever.



A lot of people(probably mostly guys) like the idea of roleplaying a student/teacher fantasy or watching it via porn

Would watching this type of porn make you feel uncomfortable, given that you're a teacher yourself?
Original post by Secretnerd123
Can't that timetable potentially ruin relationships (like marriages) as the couple have like little to no time to communicate as the teacher in the relationship would probably be shattered by the end of the day? :redface:

Is it possible to mark straight after school so you don't have to do anything at home?


Yes, it can. I know quite a few teachers who are in relationships with other teachers so it's sort of a mutual suffering thing and not the fault of anyone person if they dont get an awful lot of time.

Quite often I'd stay behind after work to help mark (not really supposed to as a TA) and try and lighten the load. It's possible to get free time in the afternoons just not an awful lot of it. My dad taught untill he was 60 and would always just stay up really late (2amish) to get time to watch tv etc.

Again if you're really organised and work really hard then you can free up time. I'm personally too lazy and disorganised to operate at that level of intensity for any long period of time, just to get my weekends off.
Original post by Ruffiio
A lot of people(probably mostly guys) like the idea of roleplaying a student/teacher fantasy or watching it via porn

Would watching this type of porn make you feel uncomfortable, given that you're a teacher yourself?


I wast technically a class teacher. I was a teaching assistant, I had to teach a bunch of classes, take focus groups outside the class, do playground duty and pretty much everything else a teacher did but less marking/lesson planning.

The single greatest fear in my life in the time I was there (a primary school) is a kid saying you did something to them. When I joined the school the head gave me a talk about never being alone with a student or a small group if you can avoid it. Never for example, ask a kid to help you get stuff out of a cupboard because the time you're in there anything could happen and if it comes to a kids word vs yours, you're screwed really.

Watch a film called "The Hunt" with Mads Mikkelson in it. Thats the ultimate nightmare. The whole teacher/student fantasy thing even at secondary level, for me isn't remotely attractive even in a role play scenario. Even if you were innoncent, if a kid accuses you, you will be branded a peado for life.

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