Thanks everyone!!!
Posted by apstaats on May 15, 2007 · Member since Mar 2006 · 661 posts
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped me calm down a couple weeks ago for my job interview. I got the job!!! It's contingent upon there being classes available for me to teach, but I am in the faculty pool!
THANKS!!! :-*
congrats to you, way to go.
That's wonderful! I knew you'd get it! They have very good taste!
I admire today's teachers, I really do.
I can't remember whether you said if this involves a re-location for you...???
I can't remember whether you said if this involves a re-location for you...???
Actually, it allows me to stay right where I am :) I will be working at the college I am about to graduate from. I am jazzed! (I really like where I live)
Yay! That is wonderful. 8) I am so happy for you!
I have great confidence that the American educational system will continue to turn out students who need your services! You did say you taught remedial math, right? How could anyone not need that?! :D
Thanks for sharing in my joy, guys!
Anna1111, you're right, I teach remedial math. And, yeah, it's both relieving and depressing to know that there will always be a need for me. :P
Amazing, wonderful news. I knew you could do it and you did!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!
Di
P.S. The teacher that inspired me the most in highschool was my remedial math teacher.
P.S. The teacher that inspired me the most in highschool was my remedial math teacher.
Aww... I love hearing stuff like that! Thanks for sharing.
P.S. The teacher that inspired me the most in highschool was my remedial math teacher.
Aww... I love hearing stuff like that! Thanks for sharing.
Well, obviously everyone in the class needed help big time with math. We had two classes a day and I believe it was grade 9 although could have been grade 10. He never made any of us feel stupid. It was because of Mr. Lieber that I truly believe there is no stupid question. He made us all over come our fear to ask what many would believe was the obvious. He had the patience of a saint. Thanks to him, our particular class beat over 90% of the province in our final provincial exam.
Teachers are so under appreciated. My grade 8 math teacher made me feel stupid and insignificant. Mr. Lieber changed all of that. He made the whole class realize there are different approaches to teaching. One with kindness and understanding and then one where the students didn't mean a thing. I will never forget him. I wonder where he is today and if he realizes what a difference he made in many of our lives.
Once again, congrats. I am very proud of you! Now you can go forward and change some lives!!!!
Hugs
Di
The school is lucky to have a smart and compassionate teacher like you. Congratulations!
I have to say I wish I had had remedial math in school more than just one semester's spotty tutoring on my lunch hour in highschool, when it was discovered I couldn't do the touted accelerated graduation if I didn't pass algebra!
I was turned-off on math in first grade by Mrs Pitts (ever so well named!) holding up my paper in first grade (first grade!) and saying to everyone, "This is how you DON'T do this!" My immediate thought was, "I'm never asking for help again."
At that time in that place, all math teachers seemed to be single women over 50 with attitude! So I really never learned it, or wanted to. And then there were the "puzzlers"--I'm sure math buffs love them, but if you want to turn a struggler off, just hit them with that boat-goat-wolf-cabbage-river scenario! Or the bathtub thing! (Trust me, if you don't put the plug in, it will never fill up!)
Soooo (before I go into full, glorious auto-rant), THANK YOU Apstaats for taking the trouble to help the unenlightened. As I get older my ignorance of numbers and their uses frightens me. Especially in a different culture and currency!
YAY!!!!! Good for you!!! :D :D :D
Now you must put your lick'N'stick giraffe on your desk!
BTW my Larabars only came with newspaper :( I was sad.
That is so great to hear! Good for you! :)
I can't remember whether you said if this involves a re-location for you...???
Actually, it allows me to stay right where I am :) I will be working at the college I am about to graduate from. I am jazzed! (I really like where I live)
It's a wonderful thing getting to do what you love in a place you love. Very exciting. When do you start (assuming there are classes for you to teach)? What will happen if there aren't classes for you to teach?
Yabbitgirl, what a meanie you had in the first grade! :( I always like hearing stories about what people like and don't like in their teachers. It helps me refine my own style.
Jenniferhughes, lol, my giraffe is right here on my home desk next to my computer! I will have to bring it in to work! Maybe I can lick his feet and stick him to the wall!
I will start at the end of August, if they have classes for me. I'm also applying to some Catholic high schools (sorry, teaching at a public high school frightens me--wish it didn't, they really need good teachers) and some other random educational jobs (test prep centers, curriculum design stuff, etc.) So hopefully I will be able to do one of those if this doesn't work out.
Amazing, wonderful news. I knew you could do it and you did!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!
Di
P.S. The teacher that inspired me the most in highschool was my remedial math teacher.
I had a great math teacher, too - sort of. I was mistakenly placed in advanced placement when I needed remedial - I was advanced at everything but math, but I am nearly innumerate! My 8th grade algebra teacher was hostile to her students - she would lecture a few minutes, poorly, then go socialize with the other teachers. If anyone dared ask a question, she would yell at them for "not listening." A remedial teacher, not my own, took pity on me and volunteered all her lunches to tutor me - it helped so much! At the end of the year, she was laid off, and the bad (tenured) teacher was kept. But I still remember Ms. Snyder quite fondly - that kind of dedication is such a treasure!
Apstaats, are they still doing "new math"? I went to gradeschool in the mid to late 60's, when sets, subsets etc were all the rage. So first grade was regular math, and halfway thru 2nd grade, they changed us to the new math. And they were illustrated problems, instead of numbers you'd have pictures of teddies or apples or oranges. Mrs Beaman (2nd grade) just could not deal with us adding or multiplying with one set of apples and another of gingerbread men! According to her, you just could not do that--"After all, what do you end up with? Appley men?" (goodness knows I quote.) She ranted about it for about 5 minutes at least one day. It ocurred to me, little overachiever, to look up and say brightly, "Dessert!" And I got a timeout for being a smartmouth... ::)
Then when I got to 6th grade, the "new math" suddenly disappeared, and it was back to the old. And by that time, I was totally confused. Let's not even touch on the "base" method!
When I was in gradeschool in that small rural town, ALL of our teachers seemed to be deep in the throes of a particularly nasty change of life...sigh. ;)
The back-to-basics movement has hit hard! It's all about procedure, procedure, procedure now! Understanding just doesn't matter. Test scores do! Of course, ask any teacher, and you'll hear a different sentiment, but there is not much we can do about it right now. I'm waiting for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction--and stop in the middle for a change!
Congrats!
What awesome news to greet my return from a trip. Congrats! That's really great.
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I've been gone for several days. Is that a picture of you from years ago?
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