Wow, when I launched this blog yesterday I didn't expect such a reaction. I can tell from the emails (all 7 of them!) that my blog is obviously going to be a big part of your lives during 07, but there really was no need to go and organise international firework displays in honour of this blog! I couldn't believe that as the New Year began, symbolising the start of this epic journey (otherwise know as my blog), fireworks rang out across the horizon. A fitting tribute to an explosive blog....
Ok (drum roll please) so what is the first of a hundred and one things that you should do while teaching?
No#1 Visit an eBay Shop!
Before I entered the teaching profession I honestly has no idea how difficult it would be. Sat behind my mind numbingly boring accountancy desk I actually thought teachers had life pretty easy (I changed my mind about day 1 of my PGCE course!). Start work at 8:45, finish at 15:00, holidays every second week, teach the same lessons year after year. From my vantage point teachers had it pretty easy (I guess Year 1 teachers still do but that is a point for another post!).
How wrong I was! Teaching as a job is more difficult than anyone working in other professions will ever realise. So why am I telling you what you already know? Well my point is this. Every now and then, when you are full of a cold and people are commenting that you look as though you have recently died and been resuscitated in quick succession, visit an eBay store or a resource website and buy something which will make your life easier. I know we shouldn't have to spend our own money, and I wouldn't recommend it every day, but one thing that teachers should do when teaching is occasionally visit an eBay store and spend £1.99 on a resource which might save you hours of preparation. Seems like good sense to me….
Now put your feet up, relax and (depending on your subject and phase) visit one of the shops below and let them worry about that lesson you forgot to plan P1 tomorrow.
http://www.instantdisplay.co.uk/
http://www.leafy-teaching-resources.co.uk/
http://www.leafyeducation.co.uk/
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Teacher-Toolbox
Until next time….
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Monday, 1 January 2007
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Welcome to 101 things to do while teaching...
Ah teaching, the worthwhile pursuit of filling young minds with bright ideas. Every day filled by little bundles of joy inquisitively seeking new droplets of knowledge. Well that's what they tell you in teacher training college anyway!
Whatever your view of teaching as career (personally I love it almost as much as I do the sight of white bunnies skipping down a flower filled meadow in Spring) the chances are that you feel as though your life is ever so slightly unfulfilled. Sure, filling bright young minds with droplets of knowledge is its own reward (until the bright young minds become dreary drenched puddles of doom around about year 9), but the long hours and mountains of paperwork mean that it is likely that you don't do as much outside of teaching as do employees in other professions.
There is nothing like the searing intensity of a day in the classroom (unless you teach Year 1, playing in the sand is hardly searing intensity is it?!) to kill any enthusiasm for living any kind of life outside of teaching. A day in the trenches (sorry classroom) is unlikely to lead you to want to go home, put on your dancing shoes and head to the disco (unless you teach Year 1 of course).
Well this is where the '101 things to do while teaching' team (ok one man and a very active imagination) comes in. Over the course of 2007 it is our intention to fill your lives with the most fulfilling things that you can do outside of the classroom while teaching. Of course, intention and reality often get muddled, but you can be sure that during the next year you will receive expert advice and guidance to spice up your non-teaching lives! All you will need are Swimming Trunks, a JCB, and an Oxygen Tank (I made those up, but if we did need them it would be a pretty cool list of 101 things to do!)
Heres to 2007, and the living of a life outside of the classroom! Number 1 thing to do while teaching is coming tomorrow. Make sure you tune in, it will be an awesome ride!
Whatever your view of teaching as career (personally I love it almost as much as I do the sight of white bunnies skipping down a flower filled meadow in Spring) the chances are that you feel as though your life is ever so slightly unfulfilled. Sure, filling bright young minds with droplets of knowledge is its own reward (until the bright young minds become dreary drenched puddles of doom around about year 9), but the long hours and mountains of paperwork mean that it is likely that you don't do as much outside of teaching as do employees in other professions.
There is nothing like the searing intensity of a day in the classroom (unless you teach Year 1, playing in the sand is hardly searing intensity is it?!) to kill any enthusiasm for living any kind of life outside of teaching. A day in the trenches (sorry classroom) is unlikely to lead you to want to go home, put on your dancing shoes and head to the disco (unless you teach Year 1 of course).
Well this is where the '101 things to do while teaching' team (ok one man and a very active imagination) comes in. Over the course of 2007 it is our intention to fill your lives with the most fulfilling things that you can do outside of the classroom while teaching. Of course, intention and reality often get muddled, but you can be sure that during the next year you will receive expert advice and guidance to spice up your non-teaching lives! All you will need are Swimming Trunks, a JCB, and an Oxygen Tank (I made those up, but if we did need them it would be a pretty cool list of 101 things to do!)
Heres to 2007, and the living of a life outside of the classroom! Number 1 thing to do while teaching is coming tomorrow. Make sure you tune in, it will be an awesome ride!
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