Oddly, I really like that age - still enough kid in them to be fun , but they start thinking a bit, They can be really fun to talk to. They can be horrid in a group - they actually notice when you are rattled. However, when I threatened them with duct tapeing them to their chairs - they both got the message and thought it was funny. Of course, I only delt with them ina library setting
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 35: We Got a History
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - May 22, 2007 7:43:47 pm PDT #9834 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ChiKat - May 22, 2007 7:59:15 pm PDT #9835 of 10003
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
They need to be treated with a strong personality and little snark
I think I can handle that.
I threatened them with duct tapeing them to their chairs - they both got the message and thought it was funny
I could do that, too!
The job is teaching all drama classes which I would absolutely adore. I was just concerned about the age group.
Emily - May 22, 2007 8:09:06 pm PDT #9836 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well, the phone interview was for another middle school, so I'm still considering it an option. They want me to come teach a demo lesson next week (EEEEK) to an advanced 7th-grade class which is doing algebra. And I'm thinking, it's like you're asking me to teach aliens. I don't even know what that LOOKS like at this point. So I'm freaking a little.
Thing is, I've only taught eighth graders this year, and so much happens in so short a time that I think sixth graders may be ENTIRELY different (look at me, all with the asscaps). But some of my kids are really great. There are definitely pluses, and with a group without such huge outside problems, I think it could be great.
DavidS - May 22, 2007 8:31:00 pm PDT #9837 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sixth graders are entirely different. But i think less hormonal and more tractable.
-t - May 22, 2007 8:57:34 pm PDT #9838 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
From my minimal experience subbing in middle school math classes: sixth graders are completely different from 8th graderss, more still wanting to please authority figures; and teaching 7th grade algebra is huge big fun. Lots of good luck, Emily!
libkitty - May 22, 2007 9:02:49 pm PDT #9839 of 10003
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I am always so impressed with people who are good with junior high kids. I'm good with individuals, but not so much with groups.
IOmememeN, I think I may have mentioned that my supervisor is retiring and I'm applying for the position. I was just asked to publicize the position, and another one. After I indicated that I would be applying. On the one hand, I don't really mind. On the other, this is kind of awkward.
-t - May 22, 2007 9:38:16 pm PDT #9840 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
One of those deals where they have to publicize any position, libkitty? In any case, good luck to you, too.
Fay - May 23, 2007 12:13:26 am PDT #9841 of 10003
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Go ChiKat, go!
You folks have already said what I thought about the Joss post, so - yeah. That.
Meanwhile, in Kids At School news, conversation today in the staffroom:
Colleague: Guess what [5/6 year old kid] wrote today?
Me: Dunno.
Colleague: 'The alien smells like cock.'
Everyone in Staffroom: t dies of laughter
(apparently it was supposed to be 'sock'. Fair play to the kid for knowing about the C making an S sound sometimes.)
brenda m - May 23, 2007 2:22:34 am PDT #9842 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I was just asked to publicize the position, and another one. After I indicated that I would be applying.
Which you just did. By announcing it here.
What? We're on the internets. I say consider your duty done.
hippocampus - May 23, 2007 3:24:31 am PDT #9843 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
Jobs ~ma to ChiKat & Emily & libKitty! (plus some extra dense~ma for libKitty... maybe they're just having you post it for legal reasons. I second that it's announced - you're good to go).
ChiKat - I was going to say the same thing as Emily, but since she said it so well, all I have to add is middle schoolers and drama classes - great combo. (I think the age group rocks, but then I also get happy for poetry writing with 16 and 17 year old arts-magnet students ) You can be goofy and crazy and if someone looks in on your class with le raised eyebrow, you can just pawn it off on some sort of experiential theater. Plus, you can give them the great literary experience of actually hearing some fantastic lines spoken, not just read... I have a friend who, when things get completely out of pocket, tells her middle school drama kids that if they get to the end of the task, she'll teach them a mime trick. Sounds odd, but apparently works every time.
Joss' post. Very much that.
My sister and BIL come to visit tomorrow & I cannot wait. They're getting in at 2 am... (no amount of hinting that they should crash at a hotel near Dulles made it through the phone lines)... I think that I will drool on my desk tomorrow while they snooze off the jetlag.