I've invested in a lot of board games that I've paid out of my own pocket
Quote from: Chinguetti on July 24, 2017, 10:17:20 amI've invested in a lot of board games that I've paid out of my own pocketI would like to do this, but I could never prevent the kids from wrecking them. I bought a deck of cards for one vacation class and tried my best to get them not to fold, spindle or mutilate them to no avail. I'm not risking that with a $40 board game. Elementary kids almost subconsciously destroy things.
My school has started to take the piss. They told me about a week ago that they didn't have the budget to renew me and ever since nothing has gone right. The principal has decided that I'm no longer allowed to turn on lights, aircon or the fan to save power and my co-teacher , who agreed to write a letter of reference for me, has run off on an out of country business trip for the next 3 weeks. To make this worse my afterschool classes were finished for the semester last Thursday but apparently that just means they send the kids to come hang out in the English room when they would be in my class. I have all of second grade in here being their usual "touch / move literally everything while screaming constantly" selves. Only 32 days left till unemployment and I'm genuinely not sure if I'm scared that I won't find a job or just happy to not have to come here again.
Please make 2 games for Monday for the Grade 3 class. Ok. (Jesus, 2?) (Proceeds to talk for 30 mins of a 40 min class)
Started camp and did a scavenger hunt. Spent a lot of effort hiding the items in 16 locations all around the school. I also made clues for each of the 4 teams. Started the game and found my CT following the students telling them EXACTLY where each thing was hidden!
I know the province I'm in is not replacing teachers who are leaving and are spreading the rest of us among the schools.
Quote from: Aristocrat on July 24, 2017, 01:07:28 pmStarted camp and did a scavenger hunt. Spent a lot of effort hiding the items in 16 locations all around the school. I also made clues for each of the 4 teams. Started the game and found my CT following the students telling them EXACTLY where each thing was hidden!This sort of thing drives me up the wall. What compels some teachers to do this, lol?One of my coTs does this for every class. The laziest, most unmotivated students don't mind it, but a lot of the students get visibly irritated with her because she doesn't give them a chance to think things through at all.
Quote from: Chinguetti on July 24, 2017, 03:33:08 pmQuote from: Aristocrat on July 24, 2017, 01:07:28 pmStarted camp and did a scavenger hunt. Spent a lot of effort hiding the items in 16 locations all around the school. I also made clues for each of the 4 teams. Started the game and found my CT following the students telling them EXACTLY where each thing was hidden!This sort of thing drives me up the wall. What compels some teachers to do this, lol?One of my coTs does this for every class. The laziest, most unmotivated students don't mind it, but a lot of the students get visibly irritated with her because she doesn't give them a chance to think things through at all.It was especially infuriating as I went through a lot of effort in order to make the scavenger hunt fair and balanced. Each team was comprised of a combination of strong and weaker students, the 16 hidding spots were divided into 4 sets (set 1 being easy to find and set 4 being harder to find). Each team had 1 hint from each set so they'd have 1 easy, 2 standard and one challenging clue to go on. I also put mechanisms in place to make sure teams couldn't 'steal' the treasures others had clues for... It was fair, balanced and fun.Thanks to her, a 20-30min scavenger hunt lasted just over 5min.
I'd have lost it. I am really glad I don't teach camp with a particular coT who likes spoonfeeding the students. She'll even translate "who," "what," and "where" for them FFS
Quote from: yirj17 on July 24, 2017, 07:34:35 pmI'd have lost it. I am really glad I don't teach camp with a particular coT who likes spoonfeeding the students. She'll even translate "who," "what," and "where" for them FFSI've said it before and I'll say it again.ESTABLISHING SHOT -- Grade 6 class Student 11? 십일번