welcome bienvenidos. tip numero uno!

apparently there are many things that go untold whenever one enters this world of teaching.  One of them and it has by all means represent quite a task to me lately is the bands! And i'm not talking about the marching band of your school but the banding and little clubs that are inside your institution.  Some of them are for the bettering of the place and some of them are just to deteriorate any sense of sanctity you might have previous to know their existence.

tip numero uno! 
Learn to identify them.

I'm a guy therefore the art of chisme, or the classic gossiping is not my forte, and to top that I'm a minority inside the same conglomerate of teachers.  therefore with that said women surround me, and before I even wanted to enter this magnificent illustrious world of educated dictatorship I was like...
"guacha, a world full of Mujeres, pretty and awesome intelligent women"

what can possibly go wrong right?

Right?

A shit load of things can go wrong!

So learn to pick your teams!

There are different types and I will start with the structural and least responsibility holding one, depending on, thats right ladies and gentleman, there is a depending clause attached to it, it depends on your ring leader or what I like to call the administration.

You might be a bit bugged out about my lack of focus and nonetheless you earned it, reading this crap for an extensive amount of time might get you angry and at times aggravated but my hat tips to you kind sir and awesome madam, because even I can't read my stuff after its been published.

Anyways....

yes, you might be asking the same question the 2 people reading this blog are asking themselves, who is this guy talking about...

well my friends, these individuals inside your school are the Teacher Aids! or TA's for short.

I mean they rock and they are awesome, (usually when a sentence starts with this, it means everything goes downhill from there)...
but...

(here we go)

they tend to hold little to no responsibility other than to be there at certain times and help you sort of resolve issues, now this is directed to newly wedded teachers to the art of teaching!

No to you all seasoned wolves and lions of the sea teachers who can blind folded teach a kid to read using only a stick and some crayons...

yes to you new dudes (dudes is gender neutral, now with all that gender stuff going on I don't want to offend anyone) that why i'm using dudes! Non gender specific! pazam! wham!

you must not engage in long conversation with these individuals for this will only deviate into oddly built trails that relate to nowhere near the art of teaching.

This is coming from that part of me that is 31 years of age...

yes the adult part with the 401K and long lasting student debt that has scarred me for life,


anyways...

i have come to inform you that if you engage in those types of conversations they usually come with a package, and I'm not saying to go and avoid that part that is sympathetic to peoples troubles but to draw a line between you and reality! because believe it or not, you are there to teach the kiddos and make them feel great about learning about how to create and adequate main idea!  Isn't that just weird...

well, as I was telling you, yes you last person reading this... because I bet one of the other 2 already closed this page and is probably browsing what pornhub has to offer on a lonely night....

The TA's as we call them, hold a breed of their own and if they have been there for long it does not take much to know that they know quite a lot of things that happen inside your school!

They are a great source of news and what's going on and what not's but they also are the opposite of good, which in this case is not bad but evil!  The type of evil a person like Hitler might would love to have!  You Nazi!  PIG!

Oh well, yes be courteous to them and make them work, have everything ready for them and plan ahead because their idle times are sometimes filled with voids that get filled by other peoples demises!

Yes for example few of the conversations that I sort of eves drop! Unintentionally! Of course! sort of start or are caught in the middle with "yeah, he got fired because of..." or "yeah and I told her, I will tell your supervisor"...

now I don't know about you but when you take care of 44 kids whose identities vary like Kanyes financial crisis.... from chaotic to what the hell brah!  just quit it,...

well you sort of don't want to add to it with adult real life exciting talks about human superiority on other humans and whatever...

yeah, you don't want that...

that is one of the things that you kinda want to stay away from! FIRST YEAR TEACHERS!

it is by all means tempting to vent your teacher troubles to TA's but remember for every reaction there is an equal or greater reaction coming your way that will pimp slap yo punk bitchass!

so for your sanity do not poke on that beehive! even though they do produce an awesome and tasty product, you do now want to be mauled by their tiny little butts!  (yes we are talking about bees you perv, ewww)

so tip numero uno from profespanglish is the following!

Make sure you understand the herarchy of your newly acquired job! learn who are your allies but also learn to detect your unknown enemies.

That involves everybody even your boss, your principal!

but to keep focus lets stay with the TA's these are my tips to you if you have TA's in your room that help you drive your class into the greatness that it could be...

numero 1: make them work for the kids at all times
numero 2: please tell them whattahell you need to be done and what you expect the kids to do!

I used to be a TA once and I found it pretty annoying trying to understand what My teacher wanted me to do, they just handed me a paper and be like "there, go on muggle scum and find what I need you to do and the kids to understand and quick you got 40 minutes to figure out"...

numero 3: do not engage in personal conversations during the teaching moments and or try to figure out what is going on besides your kids.

Numer 4: designate the kids you need to help the most to her and create a plan that fulfills your needs and theirs.

Numero 5 and final, make friends with them they are human just as you and they most of the times rock! but it is easy to deviate and get distraught... you will get this.

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I'm sort of running out of things to say on this first blog but I guess we shall continue on that other one when I explain another type of group you will and might encounter in your journey in the arts of teaching....

and please please do not quit teaching! please it is imperative of you to keep fighting the urge to just stop! ..

we will make this our journey and you and I will be awesome teachers one day, it does not happen in a day I know teacher who are in the art for more than 30 years and they are so eager to learn the new ways and better teaching methods that I can't really tell how old their brains are, because they are young!!!!!!!!!!

well have a great day and see you all soon, next episode

tip numero 2: episode of the definition of bands! (in school)


  

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