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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 8h

Possibly. I’ll praise kids regularly for good and hard work, but I’m not rewarding any old thing especially if its just expected 🤷🏻‍♀️

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 8h

I understand why teachers do it, but as you said, it’s a tough world out there

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 9h

I have been told to do that though, and I know many colleagues who do it

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 11h

I know. We’re really setting the kids up to fail when we do that

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 11h

It’s basically rewarding bare minimum and lowering expectations; “Have a sweet for not snapping your pencil in half and lobbing it across the room” no.

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 13h

But I’m expected to ‘manage their behaviour’. They’ve no intrinsic motivation- not only for my subject. I resent the idea of bribing them to get them to behave

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 1d

All I can do with them is fire fight and I hate it. I can’t be the best version of my teaching self with them and I hate it. I hate it for me and them.

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 1d

Someone once said on here to me that being a good teacher is context dependent and they are proof.

I can do my best teaching with them. They are FLYING and making loads of progress.

It makes me resent who I am with my Year 9s & 10s. Where they’re rude, disruptive and often dangerous. 4/4

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 1d

They parrot thing back to me, which started accidentally:

Me: “if it’s heavy…”
Them: “it’s expensive!”

Me: “That sounds like and ish-you and not…”
Them: “an ish-me” (we say this one with love)

And me: “If we’re talking…”
Then: “then we’re not listening”
3/n

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 1d

Support each other. They are helpful, kind and show each other compassion.

They are also hilarious. 3/n

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 1d

They are Masters of white board work.

We can switch from books to white boards at warp speed at they don’t miss a beat 2/n

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t taught year 7s in years and mine are an utter joy.

Here are some things that they’ve been doing this first term:

They call me ‘bestie’ which means their ‘best teacher’

Waited for 10 mins outside my lab at end of break. Then yelled “she’s here!” and dropped to their knees 1/n

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 5d

Yes - I’m using a lot of those and everything that’s still in my head or my Big Book of Biology (my heavily annotated spec)

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 7d

We’re same exam board as my old school, but my previous HoD deleted anything I made so I don’t have anything. It then takes additional time to put everything in the MAT style PPT. This seem to be taking the longest

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 7d

These means we’re making lessons ALL THE TIME and it’s exhausting. I don’t want to work like this.

Think I’m just too fed up of now to see the light.

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 7d

Not going to lie, current workload is really getting me down. Currently working every evening and most of my weekend.

Dept have nothing suitable to use from last year (old HoD wasn’t much cop) and we’ve got entirely new dept. We’re all great but we’ve got nothing to work from 1/2

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 7d

We had one shared as a family. I remember learning to edit codes for Sonic with my friend in secondary school.

Before that it was spending HOURS hand drawing maps of Magic Land Dizzy

a video game called the excellent dizzy collection has a cartoon character on the screen

ALT: a video game called the excellent dizzy collection has a cartoon character on the screen

media.tenor.com

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 8d

In no particular order:
Chernobyl
BSE crisis
Star Wars
AMSTRAD CPC464
SEGA Megadrive

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 8d

Being a [single] teacher is really rubbish. Washing machine broken and engineers are only Monday to Friday. So have had to book for half term as can’t take time off for it and Smells it at uni.

Makes me so cross sometimes.

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 12d

Oh don’t 😩 trouble is they don’t get it and, far too often, neither to their parents

La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 12d

They’re not allowed them on benches in the lab here. But it doesn’t stop them asked to get up for a drink and then wee every 10mins

La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 12d

I had this today - pupil asked to take a time out in the SEND dept. Asked the TA (apparently) not me. Even the person sat next to them didn’t know they’d gone

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 12d

Since when did this become a thing? We’re not talking about pupils with SEND.

We’re talking about a complete and utter lack of social cues and, dare I say, down right rudeness.

What’s going on??

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 12d

Why are kids (2ndary) just getting out of their seats to wander around when the teacher is talking?!

Today I’ve had one pupil get up, interupt me, to say they’d lost their pen. Another to get up and brush their hair, someone else got up to steal a pen off another kid 1/2

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La Biologuita @labiologuita.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine being at a school where your deputy head stops you for a chat and you don’t freeze in fear…

because we’re going to a really nerdy science talk at a local venue and they wanted to chat about bringing snacks

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