Teaching for Mugs
I returned back home yesterday from family hols in Cemaes Bay (highly recommended) for 5-a-side duty and the first day on The Manchester City Council payroll (a training seminar for newly qualified teachers in city). As well as the mundane stuff about how my life will cease and tales of corporal punishment, I learnt that most councils in the area pay their staff on the 15th of the month, in this authority I have to wait to the 31st. However we did all inexplicably get a mug each showing the (traditional) sights of Manchester...so that makes up for it.
Some of the comments from the training staff present?
"If people ask you what you do don't reply 'I'm just a teacher'. Instead say 'I enrich the lives of young people'. Maybe then others will reply 'I'm just a banker'."
However, I will leave you with my personal favourite:
"Remember, if your class of 14 year olds wants to kill you, they could"
Some of the comments from the training staff present?
"If people ask you what you do don't reply 'I'm just a teacher'. Instead say 'I enrich the lives of young people'. Maybe then others will reply 'I'm just a banker'."
However, I will leave you with my personal favourite:
"Remember, if your class of 14 year olds wants to kill you, they could"
posted by Mr T at 5:08 pm
1 Comments:
A couple of years back I remember reading a letter in the Manchester Evening News saying that teachers shouldn't be paid at all because 'the pleasurable experience of working with young minds was rewarding enough in itself'....and maybe Manchester Council are looney enough to try such a scheme!!
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