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Job Dilemma! Teaching

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So ... I am a teacher and in my dept they are shuffling people around like crazy between the hs and the jr high...

I travel from school to school and enjoy it but bc of all the shuffled people... There are openings where I could just stay in one place... 

Im so torn bc there are pros and cons to this...

Con - 

1 of my current principals is awesome and the other is retiring...

Pro 

so I could get a bad one..

 Con

Now the school I can transfer to has a principal retiring also so I dont know who will be there...

Pro 

Staying in one place I could have a home and not have to do double everything - like paperwork staff meetings - decorating classrooms... 

I dont know what to do :( but if I do something I have to do it now!) 

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  • Nicole_G28Nicole_G28
    Ultimately you have to do what makes you happy.  As a teacher myself I can't imagine having to do double the work!  Good luck with your decision.
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  • dragon_chicadragon_chica member

    imageNicole_G28:
    Ultimately you have to do what makes you happy.  As a teacher myself I can't imagine having to do double the work!  Good luck with your decision.

    This.  I'd much prefer to have one classroom to call my home.  Principals come and go.

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  • dunvillesdunvilles member

    I was in your position 3 years ago. I taught kindergarten 1/2 day at two schools. It was a lot of work keeping up with the staff at two schools, two classrooms, two sets of standards, two sets of kids, and the feeling of not truely "belonging" at either school. I LOVE teaching 5th grade at one school :)

    One room, one principal, no travel between, more prep time, closer relationships with colleagues... the list goes on and on! :)

     GL!

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  • grapeape73grapeape73 member
    Oh good lord, don't travel.  I used to have to travel in a different district, but changed districts so that I could be at one school.  You would not believe the time I saved not having to do things twice.  I'm lucky that my district now doesn't have a lot of general music and choir teachers that travel.  I'm also lucky that I'm able to stay part time and work at just one school.
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  • AliciaBethAliciaBeth member
    If you can stay at one school, DO IT!! I used to travel between 3 schools (I teach band), and now I have my own place. I don't leave things in the wrong classroom, I don't have to go out in the rain / wind / hot / cold, and I really do feel like I'm closer to my other faculty members.
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  • Topi-JanTopi-Jan member

    Ditto everyone else...one campus if possible!  In addition to the huge practical things like less paperwork, not misplacing things, only having to deal with one set of rules/expectations, having less prep and more time in general I, personally, didn't feel connected to a school community when I was traveling (I had been at only one school previously so I really felt the difference).

     I couldn't connect to students in the same way because I wasn't there half the time to be able to help them and it was hard to connect to colleagues because I was always jetting off or playing catch-up.  I liked my job much less when I was traveling because of this different type of connection.

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