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Post by gringalais on Jul 23, 2009 16:27:35 GMT
I have a similar view on teaching special ed students. I do have a special ed class for an hour a week, and that is enough. To me it takes away the parts of teaching I like the most because it becomes so little about the actual curriculum content and more about how to deal with a student's disablity. I have lots of respect for special ed teachers, but it is not for me... Yeah, that can be frustrating, especially when they have behavior problems, which is common. My mom worked for years in special ed as a speech pathologist. She preferred that than working with regular students, but it definitely is not for everyone.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 24, 2009 4:23:45 GMT
I just couldn't become an engineer, any engineer. When I think of what my friends had to do during their student years I'm so glad I did something completely different. I had a life!
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Post by tillystar on Jul 24, 2009 9:04:05 GMT
I would dislike anything to do with telephone sales or bloody massive spreadsheets full of rows and rows and rows of numbers.
Anything where I’d have to be hanging around a great heights would be out too – no plans on becoming a tree surgeon or a steeplejack.
My Mum is one of those who works well with special. ed kids. She has kids sent to her for one on one sessions for a variety of issues - both behavioural and learning needs. She loves it and has continued beyond retirement and says she can't imagine when she would be ready to give it up.
She goes the extra mile for them and often has a couple of kids round at the weekend watching films related to their course work or using her computer to look stuff up. Many stay in contact years afterwards as she builds good relationships with them, I think for some reason these kids trust her when they have lost trust in everyone else.
I wish I had her skill as it is something I would love to do, but not sure if I would live up to that!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2009 19:21:23 GMT
I have come across teachers in special ed, or in regular ed, who should not be in their jobs. People who have no patience and always seem exasperated with the students and dissappointed in them. I wonder if they somehow ended up in a job that is not right for them, or if they'd be unhappy no matter where they are. I wonder too. I have come across some teachers who seem to not really care for the kids and/or are unhappy with their jobs. I wonder if they didn't just drift into the profession without really thinking it through? I always keep my fingers crossed as each school year starts and hope my kids get a good teacher, the kind that every kid deserves. Ont
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Post by gringalais on Jul 24, 2009 20:07:13 GMT
tilly - my mom is retired too, but still does some consulting for the school district where she works. She mainly now is working in augmentive communication projects, different devices like basic computers that students that cannot talk at all or have a limited ability to talk can use to communicate.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 24, 2009 20:50:49 GMT
I would hate:
Any jobs dealing with numbers...accountant, banking, stockbroker etc.
Any telephone jobs. I dislike the telephone and much prefer talking to people in person. The telephone robs you of so much communication...expression, nuance, body language.
Any jobs that I go and sit in one room, day in and day out, year in and year out.
Working with children. I recognized very early that I did not have what a teacher should have... (patience, I hate constant noise, and being stuck in a room) and chose to leave the profession. I like teaching adults. Once I spent a summer teaching ESL to adults and loved it.
I think it takes a remarkable person to teach Special Education. In my early years, I supply taught a few times in these classes and was totally exhausted after a morning! There is a wealth of skills needed to do this...basic teaching, patience, understanding of many special needs, understanding of people, compassion and love. Much of this is innate. Tilly, Gringalais and Livaco, your mothers are very special.
Working on and off for a few years teaching, I sympathize with all parents. The teacher you get is a 'roll of the dice' and if your child is stuck with a mediocre teacher who hasn't evolved in years, this can have a powerful effect on whether or not your child will come to love or hate 'education'.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 25, 2009 8:49:12 GMT
I am not sure I could be a baker, getting up at unearthly times to do things to the dough. And here have it baked by 7 in the morning. I soon got used to those hours, and the early rising habit still is with me. What was bad, in the last bakery in which I worked, in part due to an surplus of hubris, combined with insufficient production space, the owners put me on a shift that began at 10 p.m. and I worked through the night (alone until midnight or later) until at least 7:00 a.m. Meanwhile, my wife went to work at 6:00 a.m and returned at 2:30 p.m. Getting up at 2 a.m. and starting work at 3:00 can be pleasant, when you get off at 11:00 and the workplace is well managed and all involved do their part.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 20:29:56 GMT
I could never be a chef.
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Post by livaco on Jul 31, 2009 14:29:29 GMT
I dislike the telephone and much prefer talking to people in person. The telephone robs you of so much communication...expression, nuance, body language. I so agree, jazz... I'd rather talk to someone in person than on the telephone any time. For one thing I find it hard to tell on the phone whether the person is up for a relaxed chat or if they just don't have the time for it. (I've been on the other side of that situation, too.)
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Post by gringalais on Jul 31, 2009 16:53:28 GMT
As much as I like to cook, and I think I'm pretty good at it, I don't think I could be a chef either. It seems like cooking as a profession would take the enjoyment out of it. The schedule also would be tough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2009 17:16:18 GMT
I would not want to try to convince junkies to straighten out their lives.
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Post by livaco on Jul 31, 2009 17:48:00 GMT
As much as I like to cook, and I think I'm pretty good at it, I don't think I could be a chef either. It seems like cooking as a profession would take the enjoyment out of it. Ha! I wonder if a similar thing happens to prostitutes....
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Post by lagatta on Jul 31, 2009 20:45:52 GMT
I'd hate to be one of those people who stands in public places convincing people to give money to some worthy cause (Greenpeace, Red Cross, Médecins sans frontières, campaigns against various diseases, etc).
Lots of friends have told me I should open a restaurant, but I feel the same as the others here since it is such hard work - remember running a small restaurant means accounting, dealing with various government agencies, probably hiring and training at least a couple of employees and all sorts of other things beyond cooking. Oh yes, same and worse definitely happens to prostitutes, moreover in most cases there is a definite "best-before date".
Kerouac, I work from time to time with the Native Friendship Centre here (Centre d'amitié autochtone de Montréal), and I would definitely not want to be the street worker working with homeless Indigenous multiple-addicted sex workers. So many defeats and even deaths to each one who manages to escape that life.
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