Teachers' Staff Room Thread

[maomao]

Nice.
Tell Spookyfrank he can have his thread to say whatever objectionable shit he wants, I don't need Urban to talk shop.

Not sure it's his thread. It says 'teachers' in the title.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Not sure it's his thread. It says 'teachers' in the title.

"teachers' "

 

[nagapie]

Not sure it's his thread. It says 'teachers' in the title.

Well he's been banging on about setting it up to have space for him to vent and really I don't care, I have my spaces on Urban.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

We all need spaces to vent.

I do a lot of venting to people.

Getting kickback while venting can cause a bit of a mess.

Even when it only perceived or when it's a fair point (not saying anything about this situation just in general)

Perhaps we all put down the viciously sharpened pencils and have a tea and a bit of a quite moment hiding in the supply closet.

 

[maomao]

quite

quiet

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

quiet

Quite. As in a lived moment. Being mindful.


(Hides big book of student excuses)

 

[planetgeli]

"teachers' "

quiet

Well, if we're all marking homework on a Friday evening,

I wasn't calling out what you do for your students, which is why I clarified when you thought I was saying you were a shit teacher.

It doesn't matter what else you said, you said something very uncollegiate about your colleagues but moreso, you showed contempt for some of the families you serve. Those are probably the families most distrustful of education that you need to access and support the most.

I've said my bit. You can carry on calling me a cunt but don't bring it if you don't want it back.

Uncollegial

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Uncollegial

That would be an ecumenical matter

 

[maomao]

I got made to play in a staff v students football match today (we must be very short of male staff). I have told mrs maomao that since this was during directed time I am now a professional footballer, but she's not having it.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I got made to play in a staff v students football match today (we must be very short of male staff). I have told mrs maomao that since this was during directed time I am now a professional footballer, but she's not having it.

Technically as you were picked for your status rather than an ability you are more of a celebrity footballer

 

[rutabowa]

We all need spaces to vent.

I do a lot of venting to people.

Getting kickback while venting can cause a bit of a mess.

Even when it only perceived or when it's a fair point (not saying anything about this situation just in general)

Perhaps we all put down the viciously sharpened pencils and have a tea and a bit of a quite moment hiding in the supply closet.

strong agree. I'm at the end of my half term so already had a week off, so feeling a bit more zen about everything, tho

 

[planetgeli]

strong agree

Jesus, have you spent inset day filling in staff feedback forms?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Jesus, have you spent inset day filling in staff feedback forms?

About an hour doing stage 1s on promonitor

 

[baldrick]

The kind of thing I was hoping it might be able to do was eg. finely differentiated or even bespoke writing frames, creating PowerPoints to a formula and keeping track of quiz questions and quote repeating cycles. I would still be setting learning objectives and doing all the teaching.

You can definitely use it for that. It takes a bit of practice with the prompts - you won't get exactly what you want the first time of asking but the more you use it the better it works

 

[chilango]

Has anyone tried using AI to plan? I'm a slow producer of materials and often struggle to start things. I also have a very high planning load at the moment. I have a lot of individual needs to plan for and end up doing everything from scratch even though I have folders full of materials. Could it help?

I was playing with something that does a decent job of spewing out materials based upon a spec based prompt the other day. Remind me next week when I'm back at work and I'll post a link.

It's not something I'm likely to use in my role, but many colleagues saw some potential in it

 

[chilango]

maomao (and anyone else):

app.diffit.me was the one I had a play with.
and Gamma seems good for presentations.

 

[Orang Utan]

been a while since I worked in a school but reading this last page or so reminds me that I’d often eat my lunch in the shower or the disabled toilet and it wasn’t just to hide from the kids

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

reminds me that I’d often eat my lunch in the shower

Don't your sandwiches get soggy?

 

[chilango]

We've an "emergency staff meeting" after school today. The rumour is that they're pulling us out of the teachers' pension scheme. I joked that they'd soften the blow by giving us school branded water bottles. Arrived in school this morning to find a school branded key ring in everyone's pigeon hole

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

We've an "emergency staff meeting" after school today. The rumour is that they're pulling us out of the teachers' pension scheme. I joked that they'd soften the blow by giving us school branded water bottles. Arrived in school this morning to find a school branded key ring in everyone's pigeon hole

Presumably because you can't turn keyring into school branded molotov cocktails

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not even worth a fucking bottle off Temu

 

[chilango]

Most pointless "gift" ever (bar one which I'll mention in a separate post below). I mean they're actually quite nice keyrings but nobody's gonna use it for personal keys right? and all the staff using identical keyrings for their work keys? What could possibly go wrong?

 

[chilango]

Another school I worked at gave us all fancy crystal wine glasses engraved with the school branding. Problem was every single one of them leaked. They'd been produced for a fancy schmooze up in London, but with a batch manufacturing defect. So they dumped them on us.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Another school I worked at gave us all fancy crystal wine glasses engraved with the school branding. Problem was every single one of them leaked. They'd been produced for a fancy schmooze up in London, but with a batch manufacturing defect. So they dumped them on us.

Unintentional pythagorean cup?

Pythagorean cup - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[DaveCinzano]

Another school I worked at gave us all fancy crystal wine glasses engraved with the school branding. Problem was every single one of them leaked. They'd been produced for a fancy schmooze up in London, but with a batch manufacturing defect. So they dumped them on us.

"OMG there must be a leak, it's the only explanation, I could have sworn it was filled to the brim a minute ago"

 

[maomao]

I don't get much swag. Got a school plastic cup but only cause mugs are banned. Had to pay for one that worked anyway.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I don't get much swag. Got a school plastic cup but only cause mugs are banned

Except in the SLT amirite

 

[zedr]

We've an "emergency staff meeting" after school today. The rumour is that they're pulling us out of the teachers' pension scheme. I joked that they'd soften the blow by giving us school branded water bottles. Arrived in school this morning to find a school branded key ring in everyone's pigeon hole

Hope everything is okay & hope theres some fight in the staff if they're taking yo out of the TPS.

 

[chilango]

They're taking us out. Unsurprisingly. Passing on the VAT costs to us rather than the parents.

I doubt there'll be much of a fight, just a lot of resignations replaced by cheaper teachers.

 

[chilango]

Well, I'm pleasantly surprised. Lots of talk of collective action and a Unionisation drive!

I still don't think a bunch of private school teachers have the stomach for the kinda fight we'll need. But good to see a positive gut reaction across the board.