Just A Relief Teacher. Tracey Walker
Just A Relief Teacher
by Tracey Walker
Copyright 2017 Tracey Walker
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2818-5
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Preface
This book came about through the continual frustration of a system that I know can work if everyone is on the same page. If the school believes staff are valued and students learn respect and give respect.
When everyone wants the same goal and is prepared to work together as a team to achieve the same outcomes it makes for a warm and friendly work environment.
In my years of being a “Relief Teacher” I have found that some staff are driven by power, greed, control, manipulation, fear, or lack of awareness.
I have been lucky enough to have been introduced to a program that taught me how to put “principles above personalities”, which I have practiced for many years.
What I mean by this is that the principle should be the most paramount in any organisation.
In this way everyone is on the same page and heading in the same direction. Not sailing their own ship or have their own agenda and ignoring the principles of the organisation.
I feel a need to awaken people to open their own eyes and question themselves and their standards and values. We seem to live in a world, where it is everyone else’s fault.
You can’t give it away if you do not possess it.
Therefore, I would like to help pre-service teachers and any other teacher that are willing to challenge their thinking and to open their mind to reflect on their own standards and values.
Let It Begin With Me.
Your Professional Standards
Ask yourself these questions to help you evaluate your own personal standards, then, apply them in the context of your profession.
Do I dress to the standard of my profession?
Do I take pride in my appearance?
Do I set a good example for my students?
What are my standards for my profession and do they need to be improved?
The language that I use or the topics I select to discuss in my workplace?
The following are some of my experiences:
•I had to supervise a female pre-service teacher who was teaching a year 9 class of boys. She was leaning over to help a student and all anyone behind her could see was this red thong hanging out of the top of her jeans.
I feel she should have been sent home and told to dress for the profession.
•At one school I worked, students would make assumptions about me because I dressed for my profession so they would try and pull me down and find fault with me in some way.
I feel by dressing for my profession I am setting a good example for students. Also, the school and helping students learn to have respect for themselves and their employer.
•I had a staff member enter my class and wave her hand at me and say you can’t help me and continued on to speak to a student.
•I had a staff member relieving a class tell me to go to another class because the students wanted her to stay as they knew they would have to do the set work with me..
•I had a student that would turn up to my class and see that I was relieving their teacher so they would go to this particular teacher and they would write a note for that student to spend the lesson in their class.
•I had a class where I was required to collect work from another staff member who was away. That staff member told me to come back at first break which I did. Then I was told they would have it at the beginning of the lesson. Then I was told that they will settle their class and then bring me work. The end of the lesson came and I still had not received any work for the class.
•I had a teacher that wanted to be the students best friend and it didn’t matter what I reported back to them when they were away on the behaviour of the class. It was never dealt with and the teacher never approach me to discuss any of the issues with me. The students were never taught to respect the school rules and a relief teacher.
The lessons I learnt from these experiences was what NOT TO DO as a teacher. These teachers think they were cool and respected by their students but talking with past students and them reflecting back they say that the teachers that taught them the most were teachers that set boundaries. These are the life lessons they wish they were taught in school. These teachers didn’t teach respect for themselves, students, colleague’s or employer.
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