I don't know what to do...
First of all... I still don't know what to name my plant...I've had many suggestions, and I think I like Mildred and Gwyneth the best. Carnal Treasure (submitted by Adam) does not even enter my list of names.
And now onto my life...I don't know what to do. I just don't know...I went through my list of schools that have openings for next year, and I have a solid list of ten positions that I would like. Two of them are at the school Mary teaches at. I know I would enjoy teaching there, and I know the principal wanted to get me into the district, but I don't know...I don't want to sign up for it, and then in July/August tell her that I'm leaving for back home. I don't want to do that to someone who wanted me to work at their school for this school year, and I turned her down, and then tell her I'll be there next year, and turn her down. But, she never emailed me back a month ago when I told her I was looking for a new job...I don't know what to do! I've never not known what to do like this before. All through my life I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to become a teacher. I've done that. I knew I didn't want to work in the Madison schools. Check. I never wanted to move to Vegas...I moved out here, to everyone's surprise. I've never had second thoughts about teaching like I'm having now. Maybe it's just the politics out here in the district. The only thing that our principal and our assistant principal can talk about are test results. It's all about getting our test results higher. That's the only thing that's talked about at school. I know that test results are important, but we need to focus on the students. I know we can look at the test results, and determine what we need to work on with our students. There just has to be more than test results. I've never really taught in other districts, but when I was student teaching, I never heard talk of tests like this.
It all goes back to the No Child Left Behind. In my opinion, we're leaving kids behind. We're teaching them to the tests. That's not how we should teach. I'm not sure exactly how we should teach, but teaching to the tests is not right. There are other ways to assess the students, and the teachers. These tests are putting more stress on the teachers. I know I'm stressed with the tests that we give our kids. We take our interim tests next week, and the lessons I have planned for Thursday and Friday of this week are geared toward things we didn't get to this trimester that will be on the test next week. I want the scores to be higher than last test, because the last test I had the excuse for parents that the low scores were due to the lack of consistent teaching. Whatever. I'll stop my rant. But...I was emailed a great article about teachers today.
In good news, I got an email from the Director of Res Life at SNC. I had emailed him last Friday to ask if it was alright if I used him as my supervisor for my RA/AHD positions since my HDs have since left SNC. I mentioned to him that I was thinking about going back to school for Student Affairs if I ended up not wanting to teach anymore. He told me that he could really see me doing that. He offered me a soda and a discussion if I ever wanted to pick his mind about it...Awww...good times.
Well, I should think about going to bed since it's 11, and I need to get up for school tomorrow. I really should've gone to bed early all this week, and gotten up early...Oh well...
And now onto my life...I don't know what to do. I just don't know...I went through my list of schools that have openings for next year, and I have a solid list of ten positions that I would like. Two of them are at the school Mary teaches at. I know I would enjoy teaching there, and I know the principal wanted to get me into the district, but I don't know...I don't want to sign up for it, and then in July/August tell her that I'm leaving for back home. I don't want to do that to someone who wanted me to work at their school for this school year, and I turned her down, and then tell her I'll be there next year, and turn her down. But, she never emailed me back a month ago when I told her I was looking for a new job...I don't know what to do! I've never not known what to do like this before. All through my life I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to become a teacher. I've done that. I knew I didn't want to work in the Madison schools. Check. I never wanted to move to Vegas...I moved out here, to everyone's surprise. I've never had second thoughts about teaching like I'm having now. Maybe it's just the politics out here in the district. The only thing that our principal and our assistant principal can talk about are test results. It's all about getting our test results higher. That's the only thing that's talked about at school. I know that test results are important, but we need to focus on the students. I know we can look at the test results, and determine what we need to work on with our students. There just has to be more than test results. I've never really taught in other districts, but when I was student teaching, I never heard talk of tests like this.
It all goes back to the No Child Left Behind. In my opinion, we're leaving kids behind. We're teaching them to the tests. That's not how we should teach. I'm not sure exactly how we should teach, but teaching to the tests is not right. There are other ways to assess the students, and the teachers. These tests are putting more stress on the teachers. I know I'm stressed with the tests that we give our kids. We take our interim tests next week, and the lessons I have planned for Thursday and Friday of this week are geared toward things we didn't get to this trimester that will be on the test next week. I want the scores to be higher than last test, because the last test I had the excuse for parents that the low scores were due to the lack of consistent teaching. Whatever. I'll stop my rant. But...I was emailed a great article about teachers today.
In good news, I got an email from the Director of Res Life at SNC. I had emailed him last Friday to ask if it was alright if I used him as my supervisor for my RA/AHD positions since my HDs have since left SNC. I mentioned to him that I was thinking about going back to school for Student Affairs if I ended up not wanting to teach anymore. He told me that he could really see me doing that. He offered me a soda and a discussion if I ever wanted to pick his mind about it...Awww...good times.
Well, I should think about going to bed since it's 11, and I need to get up for school tomorrow. I really should've gone to bed early all this week, and gotten up early...Oh well...
posted by Kristy @ 11:14 PM
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