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teacher check in
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I have been lurking for a few months now and have noticed that there are a lot of teachers on this board...so I thougth we could all check in!
Grade: Kindergarten
State: Georgia
Years teaching: in my third year
Memory: During my first year, I transfered schools the second week of school and was given a class of students that were selected by administration. I had one adorable and smart little girl that knew how to push my buttons...and me. She hit, pushed, and stomped on my feet when she did not get her way! I went home and cried to my husband on a daily basis. Her parents and I met frequently and by the end of the year she was a changed child! She was respectful, polite, and in charge of her actions and emotions...and she had stolen my heart! She is now a second grader and frequently comes by my room to say hello! I am so thankful to have learned so much from her and with her and to have helped her manage her behavior effectively! This is why I love my job!
TTC since June 2010: Blocked tubes due to Endo
IVF July 2013
4/2 accepted into New Hope Fertility Clinical Trial in NYC
7/5 ET one blast transferred
7/12 first beta 7dp5dt: 39 Pregnant!!!
7/15 Beta: 146
7/19 Beta: 935
7/26 Beta: 14,671
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Re: teacher check in
Grade: 3rd
State: Maryland
Years Teaching: This is my fifth year.
Memory: My first year was quite a handful of fifth graders and they had explosive behaviors like choking, throwing chairs, flipping the bird, cussing, and so on. When my third graders drive me crazy I just think back to this group and remind myself that they are a piece of cake compared to my first year teaching the fifth grade.
Grade : 4th grade math
State: Texas
Memory: Student labeled mentally retarded and told he would never be capable as his non-diabled peers. Student passed state mandated exams after some very hard work and determination.
Year: third
State: Michigan
Grade: high school English/journalism
Memory: One of my kids recently wrote a story about pink dolphins for class. As he was typing it, he asked me to come take a look at the first few paragraphs. I read them over, then noticed his title which was "Two in the Pink." If you know anything about A) a sex move called "the Shocker" and b) high school boys, then you'll get why this title was totally inappropriate and why I quickly said "those paragraphs look great but you really need to change the title" before walking away very fast as he giggled to himself and his fellow male classmate. Not the "best" memory, but a funny one that I recently had.
OMG!!!! This is hilarious! I bet he will forever remember that moment as well.
I'm not a teacher, but I do work in the school system as a School Psychologist, so I'd thought I join in!
Grade: School Psychologist in 3 elementary schools
State: Kansas
Years Teaching: 2nd year
Memory: I have WAAAY too many memories of funny things kids have said during cognitive/intelligence tests. Some showed intelligence, others ... not so much.
But I treasure all my kiddos, anyways ... each one is special and unique in his/her own way!
I don't know if I count. I have my associates in early childhood education and I currently sub at a pre-school/daycare type facility. We have a full kindergarten, preschool, and my son goes to the day care across the hall.
I just started this new job a month or so ago.
Memory: Last week we were asking the children "How are your christmas trees decorated?" and this little boy pipes up "We have a Christmas Hanukah bush when grammy comes over"
His mom later explained that her husbands mom is very jewish but they celebrate christmas. So they "fake it" and call it a christmas hanukah bush. I thought it was pretty cute
OMG! That is just so fabulous. I live for students like this making statements!
Grade: Kindergarten - I have also taught 2nd and 3rd grades
State: NC
Years: This is my fifth
Memory: On my very first day of teaching I was doing the candy ice-breaker. Each child takes as many pieces of candy as they'd like from a box. After all children take out their candy, they have to tell something about themselves for each piece that they took. One little boy in my class took two pieces of candy and this is what he said, " My name is Brian, and I kiss girls." I had to turn my back because I was laughing so hard! This was a second grade student, and he is now in middle school. He still comes by to see me because I am teaching his sibling now. I will never forget that moment!
This made me laugh...how funny! They are just so adorable!
Ooh, I'll play, too! I am also a School Psychologist!
Grade: School Psychologist in 1 elementary and 1 special school for middle and high school kids identified as having behavior disorders considered to be too severe to be in a regular school.
State: Iowa
Memory: This is my first year, so I don't have many stories yet. My kids are awesome! People like to call them the "bad" kids, which makes me mad because most of them aren't bad. Most of them live in situations that I can't even fathom and I think that they are just the kids most likely to get caught doing something wrong and not that they actually do worse things (for the most part...)
Grade: Speech Language Pathologist K-5
State: Indiana
Years teaching: 8th year
Memory: I have a little girl with selective mutism that I have been working with for 3 years. (Selective mutism is where you can't/don't talk in certain situations/places such as school, related to anxiety disorder.) She finally started talking in class this year!
Together since 5/08 ~ Married 6/19/10 ~ TTC #1 since 8/10
BFP#1 3/26/11 ~ EDD 12/2/11 ~ Ectopic Twins left tube 7w3d
BFP#2 11/2/11 ~ EDD 7/14/12 ~ Robert Edgar born 7/18/12
BFP#3 9/28/13 ~ EDD 5/20/14 ~ Benjamin Clarence born 5/15/14
I had a selected mute last year. She whispered to me but would not speak out in class. I heard her true voice only once last year. One day she cut her finger with scissors and sat there bleeding all over the table. She sat there until I noticed the blood. It was scary that she'd rather sit there in silence than let me know that she needed help. It was sad.
That is so awesome that she has started talking! I'm an SLP grad student. I did an undergrad research project on selective mutism, and have also nannied for a little guy with SM, so I understand your excitement!
4th&5th grade Sped
Massachusetts
6th year teaching
I enjoy teaching in the district that I grew up in. My former teachers are now my peers, which is an interesting concept.
On another note has anyone been trained in the Orton Gillingham Reading approach.I just finished after an year in a half....thank goodness!!
Happy new Year!!
HelloI teach 14 to 16 year olds in the UK. I teach health and Social Care, for students who are hoping to go into nursing, social work, etc...
it is my 3rd year of teaching after changing career from an OR nurse into teaching.
my funniest (yet worrying ) memory was in my first anatomy and physiology lesson with a new group and a 16 year old turned to me when talking about the heart and said in all seriousness ' does the heart stop beating when we go to sleep?' i had to put a lot of effort into that group!
Grade: 4th and 5th grade Spanish in 3 schools
State: Virginia
Years teaching: 3
Memory: I love that moment when everything clicks and learn to apply their knowledge to other situations. They always look so surprised when I have them translate or conjugate something they have never seen and they find that they can do it. That "ah-ha" moment just never gets old.
Grade- PreK ( I have also taught K)
State: Pennsylvania
Years: 5th year of teaching
Memories: You cant teach prek/k without a bunch of memories. My favorite would have to be when I was working with a student who is learning English and I was trying to see how much she could understand. I was naming body parts while she was holding a giraffe and seeing if she could point to those body parts (leg,eyes, ears). Another little girl was sitting with us and she kept jumping in to help my ESL student, whenever the ESL student didnt know. Well I was getting nowhere so I started to be silly and asked if she knew where the giraffe's tail was, and then I asked if she had a tail. The second little girl answers "She doesnt have a tail, but boys do" .
"Even miracles take a little time"
Great stories!
I am in my 7th year, right now I am teaching 1st grade for the first time, and I will loop with them to second next year (I am super excited for that!) I also taught am/pm K for 4 years, and 2nd for 2 years.
I seriously could write a book of the strange, funny, heartwarming, and just plain insane moments I've had...couldn't we all?! One that comes to mind is of a little girl who was in my morning kindergarten class during my 3rd year teaching. She was the sweetest, most adorable little thing. Her family was sort of "in hiding" from her father, who beat her so bad that she had permanent brain damage to one side of her head that affected her vision and visual processing, and caused other learning delays.
One morning while eating breakfast in my classroom, she spilled her milk all over the floor. My assistant and I watched her for a full 5 minutes attempting to clean it up by herself: she would go over and get one small section of paper towel (like a square foot), and try to wipe up this HUGE spill on the floor. Then she would carry it, dripping wet, a few feet away to the garbage can. Then get another small paper towel, and repeat the whole thing a few times. My asst and I were dying, it was just too funny. Finally I went over to her, thanked her for cleaning up her spill, and asked if she would like some help (she severely needed it! This spill was not going anywhere fast!). She said "no thanks, I've got it." We helped her anyway
That is sad
Well, for anyone else who is or will work with a child with selective mutism, let me tell you what worked for my little girl, other than I think her just being ready this year. We used a 1-5 scale. We defined each number (1=quiet, no talking; 2=whispering; 3=inside talking; 4=outside talking; 5=yelling and screaming) and identified times/situations where each level would be appropriate (i.e. 2=working with a partner in class, 5=on a roller coaster). Then we practiced each level over several sessions, or I demonstrated if she would not do it. She had the little scale on her desk, and I and her teacher can now remind/encourage her to talk at a 3 or at least a 2, and say "great job on level 3" without bringing too much attention to it. Also once she started talking with just me in the speech room, we slowly added in friends she chose, then kids I chose, then working right outside her classroom, then into the room and around more adults.
Edit: Oh, and in the beginning to help her whisper/talk at all just with me, she earned stickers, and then specific stickers which she had to ask for (i.e. Hannah Montana). Can you tell I'm proud of this?
Together since 5/08 ~ Married 6/19/10 ~ TTC #1 since 8/10
BFP#1 3/26/11 ~ EDD 12/2/11 ~ Ectopic Twins left tube 7w3d
BFP#2 11/2/11 ~ EDD 7/14/12 ~ Robert Edgar born 7/18/12
BFP#3 9/28/13 ~ EDD 5/20/14 ~ Benjamin Clarence born 5/15/14
Grade: Self contained special education grades 2, 4, & 5
State: New Jersey
Years teaching: 7 years (oy...)
Memory: My class is technically a "language impaired" classroom, so there are NUMEROUS adorable things that are done/said on any given day. One of my students takes medicine in the morning and calls them her "gulpies". I melted when I heard that!
This is my 9th year teaching. I am currently teaching K in PA and have been for 3 years. Prior to that I taught 2nd grade for 5 years and 5th grade for 1 year in NC.
Thank you for sharing this...I have a little girl that barely talks...and has just begun to ask to use the restroom. Previously, whe would just stand near me and go in her pants. I am proud that she has finally begun to ask to use the bathroom. I think I can try a chart like this to encourage additional social language in the classroom! Thanks again for the great idea!
Thank you for sharing this...I have a little girl that barely talks...and has just begun to ask to use the restroom. Previously, whe would just stand near me and go in her pants. I am proud that she has finally begun to ask to use the bathroom. I think I can try a chart like this to encourage additional social language in the classroom! Thanks again for the great idea!