But Jeans Every Day!

Love the teaching, loathe the BS/In my third decade of mocking educational bromides, pedagogical fads, PD hucksters, and would-be administrative visionaries

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Good ol’ TVAAS scores (value-added BS) release day! This year I was a 2; last year, a 5. I’ve had multiple 3’s and 5’s, a 1, and a 2. Now I just need a 4 to complete the quintet! 🙄

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I love teaching some days; occasionally I abhor it. But most days it’s just a job I take pride in doing well, in part because it’s meaningful work that benefits students and their communities for years to come.

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Only June, but this morning I winced at the thought of the annual “Find Your Why/Passion/Love” to kick off the year. My beef isn’t with teachers who are passionate & brimming with enthusiasm for their work. It’s with the idea such verve is requisite to being a good teacher .

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When I need the professional expertise of someone in another field, my main concern is their competence, not their passion for their job.

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Admin: “Yes, we have grades online and backed up several ways, but we need you to print out your grade books so that we can store mountains of paper somewhere with no one ever looking at them. Thanks!”

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Mind you, I find state-mandated EOC tests a colossal waste of time, but being that part of my evaluation rests on the inanity of TVAAS, then students should have some skin in the game. For our district that means 10% of spring semester avg.

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Once again the TN DOE failed to get TNReady scores to our district by the “fifth to last school day” deadline, meaning scores will have no bearing on students’ grades.

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@MsYingling Yes.

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@MarcusLuther6 Have you read any updates on how close “watermarks” for AI-generated content are? That seems like the only effective means of identifying AI content.

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How did your spring semester compare with the one described in this article? What’s your school’s—or your personal—approach to ChatGPT and the like?

https://t.co/gJCxhelT9y

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It’s fitting we read the Odyssey in Q4 since Q4 feels like it takes ten years to finish.

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@FixingEducation “Sure, I’ll consider it. Okay, I’ve considered it. No, I won’t teach summer school.”

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@ModestTeacher A terrible idea in the business world made all the more terrible in the world of education

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After a week where every day felt like it should’ve been Friday, today is, at last, Friday.

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Ah, the time of year when the state’s DOE perpetually emails requests to complete their survey, any negative answers on which they’ll conveniently ignore. Thanks, DOE, but I have better things to do.

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I find I’m more ready for summer than most years, and it boils down to having a higher % of taxing/annoying students (and, yes, we can admit, some are). I’ve expended more energy to keep students on task and learning than I’ve had to in some time.

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@saneELAteacher @OuizerTeacher Our Spring Break has come and gone. This past week was the first week of Q4. Summer, can you hear me calling?

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No snark intended:

1) What percentage of teachers find “Remember your why” and other would-be motivational shibboleths inspiring?

2) Do district offices and admins believe a majority of teachers find such things uplifting?

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Ah, statewide ACT day, when everyone besides juniors gets herded off to other rooms and other teachers, and teachers who aren’t proctoring become glorified babysitters

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The description of every education conference/workshop sounds like it was written by ChatGPT—even before ChatGPT was a thing.