They put teachers in a room that are sleep deprived, hungover, constantly showing up late and everyone is complaining about students.
I hate meeting there. There is nothing to ever be done but all that ends up happening is my energy is consumed to a certain degree.
Nobody really shares any ideas. The room is too bright, it’s loud and it’s a total waste of time.

Hi guys i’ve never been on here and I normally wouldn’t have a reason to. I myself am not a teacher but my mom is. I am 20 and live at home so I have been firsthand seeing the effects of teaching on my mom who’s a first year kindergarten teacher. Today my mom was thrilled to do an activity with her kids in which they painted pumpkins and they made up a story where the kids would suggest the adjectives like sad or happy. I forgot what those are called lol. Anyways, during this she had a parent volunteer who just so happened to be associated with the people that make the curriculum. I am not quite sure in what way as I don’t want to pry on my mom’s already fragile mental state from this all. She proceeded to get an email a little later scolding her on her teaching. He was upset that what they were doing wasn’t exactly part of the curriculum.

My mom was so excited to be a teacher and worked her butt off to do so. She is terrified her job is in jeopardy and doesn’t know what to do. She’s gone as far as to think about giving up and i’m very worried. I personally she needs to see it through and not think she did something wrong but i’m not fa teacher. I don’t understand how scary this is but I want to. Can anybody give any insight or any comforting things for me to say? Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of getting my teaching license here in Massachusetts (I've completed 1 of 2 licensure exams) and it occurred to me that whenever I manage to find a job, I won't have any types of lesson plans readily available. I feel like this might be kind of a silly question but how does that work in the first year? I did created a couple of lessons in my program but not enough to fill a semester. The program I completed was a hybrid biology/science education program. There was also a practicum component that would have allowed the college to endorse me for licensure. Unfortunately I had to opt out of it and exit the program early due to financial constraints. So unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to teach in a real classroom. Any advice anyone can offer regarding lesson plans for the first year or just advice for someone going into this without having entered a classroom would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I'm being dramatic. Kind of. It's my second time teaching sixth graders that I have had time to get to know. They were SO good the first time I taught. Today, my first two periods were god awful.

I did a station activity, and I was very aware my CT's first two classes are extremely below grade level and have various behavioral issues. I wanted to experience the difficulty of trying to incorporate group work with classes like that, so I definitely welcomed this.

However, I feel like I yelled at them too much. The assistant principle came in and walked around during second period, which was embarrassing... She has already been somewhat judgmental toward me, so it was extra frustrating knowing I had basically been begging them to quiet down as they were in groups, and she overheard.

Is there anything I can do to command the classroom more efficiently? My CT said I was definitely not yelling at them constantly, but maybe that's because I'm not naturally THAT loud lol. I also get that students see me as a sub, and it's already so hard for them to get a class to respect them while their teacher is out.

Anyway. Any advice/criticism is welcomed and appreciated :)

I've had my share of bad experiencing regarding behavior scores, and I really think behavior should be completely separated with academics.

First of all, when a student has a final score of 90 on math in their final report, what do people think of it? They would think that this student has good mastery of the subject math, and not that they behave well in math class. If you were to make behavior affect this final score, would it still reflect the mastery of the given subject? I think it is really unfair to the students who master the subject better, because their scores do not completely reflect their academic capabilities anymore.

Second, scoring behavior of a student itself can be extremely biased. Each teacher would have their own standards of what gives good marks in behavior. I've even seen some teachers never giving their students full marks on behavior because 'nobody is perfect'. Then take in favoritism into the equation and this behavior score becomes even more biased.

Teachers might subconsciously (some even consciously) give better behavior scores to students who they are closer with. In this case, scores wouldn't be a reliable method of measuring a person's abilities anymore. This makes behavior scores not standardized, which is the opposite of what scores should be.

Last but not least, how flawless of a person are you to judge a person's character? Can you even say for sure this is their real behavior and not just a mask? I've seen many students act polite in class, but straight rubbish among their friends and parents. What's the point of the behavior score at this point if it doesn't even judge their true behavior? You would be scoring how good their appear in front of others/how good they are at deceiving people about how they look, instead of their genuine behavior.

I've seen this policy/rule sabotage bright students that are genuinely good at their studies, just because teachers don't see their effort. Teachers can only observe them at school, and yet they judge and give scores on their behavior, affecting one of the few things they can genuinely and honestly measure, which is academics. Even worse, a second, hidden purpose I've seen some teachers/principals imply of this behavior score is to help students that are struggling with their scores, so that just by showing good effort, their scores would be helped up.

What do you guys think of behavior scores?

edit: to add context here, this system is implemented in indonesia, and i just wanted your opinions about this. therfore, it might be abit different to the systems you guys would use in your countries.

I wonder how far you guys are in using AI for your workflows.

I see that in the rules here it is mentioned that there is no SI content allowed.

I think this will hold us back pretty soon, since using AI is a huge ressource.

Even the so hated vibecoding to me is a genious way to create some small selfcheck-applications that my students can make or further gamification of my lessons.

Edit: For the downvoters, I would appreciate your view. Why do you downvote? How do you handle the increasing influence of AI in our profession?