h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A528419

Maybe this is just me, but this sounds like it was written by a student rather than a teacher familiar with the topic.

You left out all the negative interractions with parents, administrators and apathetic students.

I reckon this one needs rather a lot of work...

- X

Cheek! Student indeed! Incidentally, I saw in excess of sixty year 7 students parents earlier this week. The article was called "A day in the life..." interactions with parents arent part of daily teacher life, they're more a sort of dreaded termly event where you suddenly are forced to remember minute details about scores of individuals in very short time spaces, and often try to explain their progress to non English speaking parents. Not to mention dealing with scores of other issues such as bullying, figuring out ways of dealing with sexuality without contravening stupid Section 28 regulations, racism (not just among kids but often dircted at you as well), trying to get to the root of the problem of intelligent children who are failing / losing direction for inexplicable reasons, trying to recover virus infected coursework for near hysterical A level students, giving up large amounts of spare time to help near hysterical A level students rewrite unrecoverable virus infected coursework, or coursework that was accidentally deleted by technicians when disinfecting the school network, trying to work out ways of diplomatically dealing with students who have developed a proactive crush on their teacher. In fact, dealing with Parents takes up so little time when viewed relatively, I completely forgot to mention it.
Having said all that, it can also be one of the most rewarding jobs. In teaching, there are days that are not so good, followed by days that are purely horrible, but the occasional good day more than makes up.

Please be more careful when you try to label people. I am not a student, I am however a Newly Qualified Teacher who is about to embark on the daunting task of marking multiple sets of GCSE and A level coursework for the first time. There are large amounts of information left out of the article, simply because if I was to include everything, it would be a novel.

...and another thing...

..the interractions with Parents, Administrators and apathetic students are not neccessarily negative, to brand them as such would be hugely inaccurate, not to mention slightly unproffesional. There are certain activities which many people seem to regard themselves as experts on, teaching seems to be one of those activities.
Sorry, but I'm feeling slightly irritated by the first comment, anyway, rant over.

> "the interractions with Parents, Administrators and apathetic students are not neccessarily negative"

Unlike the interactions with ofsted inspectors? Saw a friend of a friend who's a headteacher recently - he's just recovering from his - VERY glad they're gone...

I'm not sure about this entry - though I'm not entirely sure why... it claims to be a day in the life of an average teacher - but in practice, there's no such thing as an average anyone... My mother, for example, would (hopefully) not be overly concerned about the most attractive teacher in the school totally ignoring her...

Hmm - what do you think?

As an aside: can I be the first to welcome you to h2g2? It's good that you've got started with writing entries straight away - the community here is great, and I love every single one of them - but for me the whole purpose of the guide is the entries - everything else is just in support of that...

Others disagree completely with me on this of course: so it goes...

Anyway, Peer Review is open to everyone to comment - so let me encourage you to read some of the other threads here - and give a little feedback to the other researchers in the same position as you. Who knows: you may pick up some pointers that you can apply to your own writing - or get some useful hints from people who return the favour for this entry here...

Have fun!

Fair point, the article was origionally intended as a sort of alternative to: A480737 A Day in the Life of an Average High School Student. Mabye I should rename it A day in the life of an average, single, young, male high school teacher.

I thought it might be related to sea's work...

It's worth mentioning that that entry isn't in the edited guide - we don't have an entries in the "day in the life" style in the edited guide - though sea has quite a few in the united guide. I'm not quite sure why, but there you go.

Perhaps a better title might be "Learning to Teach" or "Advice for new teachers" - such an entry could be good reading for those who are planning on becoming teachers, or have just started, or are thinking of going into the business - you could give them the benefit of your experience, so to speak...

[aside - referencing post 2 and a certain other PR thread: I see that even the great Jimi X occasionally screws up the 'stay positive' thing. That's a relief.]

Come to any conclusions here, Morph, one way or the other? It'd be great if new teachers could turn to the guide for help and guidance - and maybe a chance to have a cup of with others who've been in the same boat!

So, Morph, any reactions to Lucinda's last few postings?


Mikey

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