Website review: Wat da Wat & Education
cusaac1 discovered this in K-12 Education
•4 reviews since Mar 2, 2008
education
•watdawat.com/category/education/
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1Gypsyrose rated 4 months ago- great teaching site!
- ajanelle rated 4 months ago
- In reading this I immediately thought of teaching having no idea what the site was about.
Out of the post regarding "things I wish I'd known about teaching": #5 will happen, and it will cause #6 and I'm pretty much convinced that it can kill you. I couldn't handle more than a few months myself. I decided to wait to expend my staying up nights worrying about kids time on my own children. I won't be having 20 something of them/ year, either. - In reading this I immediately thought of teaching having no idea what the site was about.
- lunachikk rated 4 months ago
- It's Monday morning and you are summoned. Your boss informs you that in order to improve your company's production, your company will use a new computer program. Your task is to introduce the new program to the entire company and you're mandated to have 75% employee comprehension of the new program by the end of your presentation. You plan your lecture and you discover that in order to effectively execute your seminar, you need certain supplies, like an LCD projector and 30 computers. Unfortunately, your boss says that he can only provide 20 computers and no LCD projector. You modify your presentation and make do with the available supplies. Since there are 180 employees, you and your boss agree to divide the employees into groups of 30, which will result into 6 forty-five minute sessions for the entire day. You are excited and prepared for your first session. But before your lesson could start, one of your colleagues, colleague A, starts disrupting the group with crude jokes. Everyone laughs. You try to do your best to ignore him but every time you continue with your lesson, he interrupts and makes strange noises. Enough is enough! You call security and your boss to have the person removed from the room so that you can continue with your presentation. Your boss comes without the security and tells you that you will just have to manage. You are told that unless colleague A is threatening you or physically harming you, by law, he cannot be excluded from the training. You don't want to lose your job so you sucked it up. But wait, the fun is not over yet. Out of the 30 employees 6 are non-English speakers. This means that you have to modify your lecture so that these 6 non-English speakers can be accommodated because regardless if they understand you or not, you are still accountable for their comprehension. You decide to work with the non-English speakers after work, which is a great strategy on your part even if you will not receive overtime pay for doing so. Now that that problem is solved, you are still doing your best to ignore colleague A. You continue with your presentation. Half-way through, you notice that colleagues X, Y, and Z in the back are not paying attention. You change gear. You immediately try to get the audience involve with hands on activity and you succeed, but colleagues X, Y, Z remain apathetic. You don't know what to do anymore. The good thing is that time is now your friend. There's only 5 minutes left and a new group of 30 employee will come in. Surely these new group will not be as bad as the first group. But, only 10 minutes into the new session, you find yourself again in the same nightmare. And, with only minor differences, it appears that the remaining sessions are all similar to the first one. Can you imagine yourself being placed in this situation? Can you envision yourself re-living the same scenario for 8 hours a day, five days a week? Will you be able to keep your sanity and remain optimistic day in and day out? Will you succeed in this type of an environment? If your answers are yes, would you please sign-up and be a teacher. Our educational system needs people like you.
- Rixii rated 5 months ago
- I only had the chance to read two entries so far, but it's a wonderfully written blog.
