[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 7 KB, 288x175, me lol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18187281 No.18187281 [Reply] [Original]

I start a job teaching English (literature) at a working class school.

What am I in for bros? My work experience was fun, but I was basically just watching teacher's work rather than doing anything myself.

>> No.18187283

*next term

>> No.18187353
File: 671 KB, 910x1998, Screenshot_20210331_133702.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
18187353

>>18187281
I'm also a teacher and enjoy my job, but you should note that teaching at a public/inner city school is almost an entirely different role compared with teaching in a prestigious private/grammar/Liberal arts/selective school.

>> No.18187491

>>18187353
Luckily I'm working class and am from the same area (have the same accent), hopefully my students won't be too bad lol.

Thanks.

>> No.18187509

>>18187281

you are in for blue drape jokes and teenagers groaning about shakespeare

>> No.18187525

>>18187281
Hmm here's my advice. Although I'm a total stranger, so of course take it with a grain of salt. Don't try to be friends with your students. They will eat you alive if they don't think you are in control or willing to throw the book at them if need be. If you try to be friends they may get along with you for a while, because you'll be the 'cool' teacher. But the 'cool' teacher quickly becomes the teacher they know they can push around.

Be a cunt. It's the only thing that works, particularly with unruly teenage boys. If you are cunt, then you have order. If you have order, then you can actually teach. Whether they want to listen or not is up to them. If you can teach, then you'll have some respect (even if its begrudging) and once you have some respect THEN you can be friends with the ones that seem to maybe give a shit. Remember that these are teenagers, you don't need them to think you're cool. I've seen so many young teachers try to be friends with their students and get chewed up and spat out.

>> No.18187539

>>18187525
Yes this sounds right to me. During my work experience an older teacher advised that 'I maintain a distance, never blur the teacher/student relationship'.

>> No.18187548

>>18187353
He said working class, not welfare class.

>> No.18187554

>>18187548
Yes, it's considered one of the best schools in the area.

>> No.18187559

What are the demographics?

>> No.18187571

>>18187559
Almost all white, a few Sikhs live in the area.

>> No.18188482

>>18187548
working class is pretty much welfare class in America at this point desu