February 2009 - Posts
The good - the people I talked to seemed to be interested. The bad - nobody is committing this early - in many cases, they don't even know, for sure, how many jobs they will have in the fall. The even worse - I just read the district's web page, and there
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I'm at Clover High School, in SC, at a Job Fair. It's crowded, but the administration is handling things efficiently. The poor elementary candidates aren't even able to get interviews - they're just taking resumes. (I wish I could figure out how to display
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I came to South Carolina in 2005, when the job market bottomed out. I mean, for over 2 years, there was not 1 opening for a science teacher. Anywhere in the public schools. And, for every opening in the private schools, there were 50-100 applicants. In
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I've been thinking about the process of getting past the first few years in teaching, and I think I may have a plan to survive the first year without going bonkers. Teacher-in-a-box. Every new teacher should get a canned set of lesson plans, based on
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I work in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. This week, the board released some likely cuts to the media (and to us) - and the situation doesn't look good. For myself, I'm not especially worried. I teach Physical Science & Chemistry (my areas are
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What could Obama have said? Well, not what he did say over the last few weeks: He said he viewed February 16 as a firm deadline for passing the stimulus bill, telling Fox, "Nobody disagrees with the idea that if we keep on putting this off that we're
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We'll be faced with this in class.
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I'm home today - we have an optional day, due to the weather. I decided to check out Hulu.com , which has streaming, free video. WOW! I've tagged some old Ironsides re-runs to watch later. There are current shows (previous seasons), as well at Nick-type
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