School House Diary: Reflections of a Retired Educator

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So...why did you choose MIDDLE SCHOOL? It's the question that is always, and I mean ALWAYS asked in conversation about my job. It's usually accompanied by a wrinkled-up nose or another look of distaste from the asker. I mean, I get it. They're 12, 13, 14 years old. NO ONE likes this age, am I right? Somewhere around the age of 12, you go from being called "Mommy" to "Mom" to "Bro." Throw in a "whatever" and an eye-roll, and you get the picture. Ben was gaslighting Peter by now,” says DS Earl. “He was saying, ‘you have dementia. You’re going to die soon and need to make a will’. Ben was hiding things in the house and insisting that Peter was forgetting things.” With only 5% who know that they can retire at their chosen age, it is clear that teachers haven’t already thought about the answers to these questions. When considering taking early retirement from teaching you need to find the answers to the following questions.

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I regret that I can’t remember my students. When they FB friend me, I go to their profiles and try to figure out if I was their sixth grade math teacher or eighth grade language arts teacher or middle school librarian. We are enjoying our life in Wales. and getting organised slowly, very slowly. Its almost as though we're recovering from all the stress of selling and buying.. So this is who I am. It's not just what I do for a living. It's a solid, tangible part of me. It consumes my daily thoughts and has shaped my life into who I am today. The thought of NOT doing this? Retiring? It's like saying I'm going to stop being...me. How so I say goodbye to a significant part of myself. And who would I be without this? Although there is a comfortable groove in teaching the same grade for years at a time, sometimes the school’s need for a teacher to switch grade levels can bring great things. Those years you will stretch your skills and grow professionally, and those benefits will always outweigh the loss of complacency in the end.I have had many memorable students die in tragic and unexpected ways: electrocution; car and plane accidents; running bases; pernicious anemia. I ache remembering these kids: a gregarious redhead; a likeable imp; a boy with impossibly deep dimples. They are frozen at the age when I taught them, when I took for granted they would outlive me. And I grieve for them. And maybe, it is just that time. We’ve experienced a challenging era and survived; hopefully, we feel fulfilled, that we’ve helped so many people. And it’s just time to move on to another phase of our lives.

Challenging Myself: 2020 - Blogger

You'd think with a year of more time and less ability to do so much of what we normally do in our day to day lives completing Challenges would have been a doddle, but in many ways this year has proved harder than most to set my mind to anything. My passion for my subject and for educating students into becoming independent learners is only growing with age and I don't see myself ever stopping. I no longer think that weekends are for catching up, or that vacations are for enriching my curriculum. That a grocery trip must be a race against time, or that a traffic jam will put me hopelessly behind. Austin Hutton, 45, has moved across the country to Fort St. John, British Columbia, but he told CNN that his mom told him about the post. This is a really interesting trend and we’re just at the beginning of the change,” said Lucy Kellaway, who quit “the world’s nicest job as a journalist on the Financial Times to train as a maths teacher in an inner-London school” in 2017 when she was 58.I hope you like what you see. Please feel free to leave a comment if you wish and thank you for reading. xx In the January after I retired, my old head of science at Christ's asked me if I could do a week's supply teaching. He then told me about the 'starting out' programme run by LSN – an initiative to help support science and maths teachers, due to 50% from these disciplines leaving the profession in the first three years of teaching. I started working for LSN almost full time as a mentor to support teachers, a role I savoured and I know it made a difference to teachers' lives.

Is It Time to Retire? Finding a Meaningful - Mindful Teachers

Since 2011, I've been working as a chemistry teacher one day a week at St Peter and St Paul Catholic Voluntary Academy, and would like to thank the leadership there for their vision in giving me pretty much a free hand to teach A and AS level chemistry the way I want to and know works.I had a 30-year career in the NHS, rising to be a senior health service manager and setting up a stroke unit and spinal clinic. But after Covid, the government wanted me to create as much activity while taking all the money away, and I just ran out of steam. With retirement brings the relief of no more ringing running your life, or parceling your time into 47 minute increments. Living now in the town where I was born in Wales, where we can walk by the sea and enjoy the country side too. Retired Australian Teacher-Librarian shares picture books, middle-grade novels, and nonfiction from around the world. Blog posts are written for teach ... ers and Teacher-Librarians and contain links to extra resources and companion reads. more

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It's just an everyday diary sort of thing but people seem to enjoy it so why not pop over and take a look. Here's a link. One of his exes didn’t realise the true extent of his expert manipulation until she heard it in court.” A time (before COVID) when we held someone’s hand when they were walking through a tunnel of fear or a moment when we helped someone face what they couldn’t face alone. He said he got “emotional chills” when he received the diary, not only because it was a time capsule from his life, but because his teacher cared enough to save it for 33 years.Maybe I wasn’t such a good teacher after all. There was the time I was reading the dramatic conclusion of Nightjohn to my eighth graders who encircled me, and I overheard 13-year-old Jonathon say to 13-year-old Emily, “You have the longest eyelashes.” And I was furious at this acned adolescent who, quite naturally, found this fetching girl more fascinating than the conclusion of a book about slavery. Officers also found a disturbing video on Field’s phone showing him goading an elderly dementia patient until she lashed out at him. Of course, if you are coming into a school as a self-employed educational consultant you will need to have your own insurance. As a chemistry teacher I am known for my "bubbles of fire" demonstration, so insurance was important for me to sort out.