Going not by jargon but linguistics, likely someone who is not entirely (or officially) trained for said profession but can function in it to some crucial/acceptable in a context degree (?).
Basically the paramilitary of less gory professions
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Going not by jargon but linguistics, likely someone who is not entirely (or officially) trained for said profession but can function in it to some crucial/acceptable in a context degree (?).
Basically the paramilitary of less gory professions
Borachio
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Going not by jargon but linguistics, likely someone who is not entirely (or officially) trained for said profession but can function in it to some crucial/acceptable in a context degree (?).
Basically the paramilitary of less gory professions
Sounds something like a teaching assistant, to me. Especially the gory bits.
In the US, Paras are teaching aids. They do not haven't the credentials or the education to be teachers in their own right (you don't need a 4 year degree to be a para), but will serve as an additional adult in a classroom. A Para might help with classroom management, small group tutoring, running an extra-curricular, or working with special needs kids.
The job pays like absolute crap.
warpus
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Both my parents were teachers in Poland, and my aunt is a teacher here in Canada. The only thing they have taught me about their experiences is that the job is a huge headache, and that most kids are stupid. Truronian, thanks for your answers.
In the UK 'teacher' is used specific to denote a qualified professional wokring with 4-18 year olds, while educator is a more general term for anyone who has educating others as part of their job description.
@Truronian:
How do you deal with the inherent routine structure of presenting a set course for a considerable duration of time? (after 15 presentations in my own program, with its step/progression structure as well, it still is becoming an annoying issue for me..)
I'm quite flexible. I plan most lessons a night or two before so that I can take the students reaction to previous lessons into account. We have a scheme of work to get through in a given year, but maths is a broad enough subject for their to be considerable variety in my day-to-day working life.
Yeah, teaching assistants don't get paid particularly well here either. They are immensely useful provided they are planned for: too many schools in the UK underutilise them IMO.
dusters
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i got education as an English and Latvian teacher, yes.
Yeah, I did a one year Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course. It was (an largely still is) a requirement for all teachers in state schools to possess such a degree.
Postcards, not valentines.I'm not sayin' it, I'm just sayin'.
Story time:
I was working in my old high school building the set for a show. It was a weekend, I was working alone in the theatre. At the other end of the school was the gymnasium and pool. Apparently there was some sort of swim competition going on, and a guy went into the girl's locker room and raped one of the competitors.
Another girl was in there and saw it. She alerted an adult and the authorities tried to find the guy, unsuccessfully.
I heard about this two days later from a student. I asked the drama teacher about it. He told me that the faculty were told it was a guy in his mid twenties, flannel shirt, blue jeans, beard, ~160 lbs, 6' tall. I got nauseous - I fit that description *perfectly* and I had no verifiable alibi.
Then I got nauseous again when I realized a girl had been raped a couple hundred feet away from me and nobody ever asked me about anything. I had no idea that it had happened at all. No. Police, no nothing.
Not cool at all.
Yeah, i was wondering about the early mention of "at the other end of the school"
In literature one would try to make that less direct, so as not to immediately raise suspicion, at least to alien-cooperating familiars like myself. But i always have the alibi that "heh, it is just literature man, chill
". Works most of the time..
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That is a horrifying story. Not your connection to it, although that is awful too having a moment being like, I hope this doesn't get mixed up.
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Easy to have happen. Scooted out of an elementary school school I was subbing at to grab a 10 minute lunch and smoke. Totes got the cops called on me for "creeping on the children" for ducking around the corner so as to not make a visible and horrible role model(it's easy to grab the "cool dude sub" vibe when you're 24). That was an awkward conversation with the principle.
My school is in a new building (about six months old) and the way in which child safeguarding has been incorporated into the design is quite interesting. The toilets have open sink areas, all the rooms have large windows into the halls, no rooms are far from the main passageways and the school is partitioned into ages groups. It certainly feels like a safe school.
In the US you typically do. I did not.
