FW: happy teacher appreciation week

I thought this was cute.  It is also a great job description of a teacher. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wales, Karen
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:44 AM
To: (BL) CHS Staff
Subject: happy teacher appreciation week

 

From a fellow teacher to all my peers here at CHS,

Have you heard about the next planned “Survivor “ show? Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped on an island for 6 weeks with a copy of their school district’s curriculum and 28 kids each.  Each class has 5 learning disabled children, 3 with ADHD, 1 gifted and 2 who speak limited English.  Three have been labeled as severe behavior problems.  There is no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch. Each business person must complete lesson plans, modify accordingly, teach the kids, handle misconduct, implement boys’ town training, write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, write lesson plans, complete report cards and benchmarks, communicate with parents, have conferences with parents, sell tickets at athletic events, chaperone dances, supervise hallways.  The business people only have access to the golf course on the weekends and they can’t afford it anyway on their new salary.  The business people must continually advance their education on their own time,  which they must pay for themselves either by moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with a lot of money.  They must attend workshops; complete drills for fires, tornados and shooting attacks; and tutor those that are behind.  They cannot let it show when they are having a bad day, must always be prepared and must incorporate reading, writing in their lessons,  get their students prepared and proficient enough to take the WASL and ITBS tests, and provide a stimulating environment at all times.  The kids and parents vote them off the island based on performance.  The winner gets to got back to his corporate job.

It is a pleasure to serve with such a fine group or “Survivors” and I appreciate all you do for my son here at CHS.

Karen Wales

American Sign Language Teacher