District Based Training
I had to attend 72 hours of district-based training. I diligently brought a notebook to each session. Here are my most valuable notes taken in the form of verbatim quotations from the female african-american training presenter:
1. "The kids... they will test you. And you will test them, of course! You're the teacher. That's why. But don't forget: they will test you TOO! So be ready for that."
2. "Fine is in the eye of the beholder." (This was a response to an idiotic question about what to do if the student makes a romantic gesture toward you. Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment in Love's Labours Lost, 1588:
Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues
But I guess "Fine is in the eye of the beholder" works too.)
3. "To get results, provide incentatatives."
4. "Everyone wants to know how I do."
5. "They will test your boundaries."
Next to each of these nuggets of wisdom in my notes is a tally of how many times the woman said each one. Number 5 narrowly won with 7 repetitions. Redundancy had reached it's peak... or so I thought. There was still school-specific training left to go!
Also in my notes are several doodles and, no lie, 4 long division problems.
It should be said that most people attending these trainings are smart college graduates. Most people administering the trainings are "downtown" employees (teacher-speak for people who work in the district but have much fewer qualifications than teachers do) with bad grammar. It is a crying shame and paramount waste of time. But we got free folders!!!
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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