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I think it is interesting that a superintendent told a group of teachers that after he retires this summer, he is going to teach English in a neighboring state (South Carolina). His discription of the school was centered around the fact that he basically just wants to teach. After being principal, director of professional development, and superintendent, he still has a high reguard for the autonomy of the classroom. I held my tongue as he rambled on about how excited he was about going back into the classroom. I had a former principal that tried the classroom after he retired a couple of years ago. His experience is one I wanted to share with my superintendent, but, I held my tongue. I nodded my head and smiled. I will see him in December, after he will have had a couple of six weeks in the trenches. I can not wait to hear his story. It has been a long time since our superintendent has been in the classroom. The kids are-- different. He will have to deal with cheaters using the Internet to do their creative writing, cell phone cameras capturing tests for kids in another period, telling his kids for the 10 thousandth time that MF is not an appropriate word to discribe your teacher, you fellow student, or your mother. He think they are going to soak up all his knowledge and write poetry about how wonderful things are. In reality, many of our students today struggle to print and have never been taught cursive handwritting. They can not even read cursive handwriting on a chalkboard. Think I am wrong, it has been a long time since you have seen the inside of a classroom. All is not lost, it is just harder than ever to motivate, and educate. More demands of your time, and less time to prepare. Managing student behavior is an art. The demands of high stakes testing rules every second of your classroom time and to have poor tests scores is worse than having cancer. My advice would fall on deaf ears. If he wants to teach, haha, go ahead. He, he will be drawing his superintendent's retirement, and whatever they pay him to teach. But, he will be earning every penny. Good Luck. He will need it. |
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