Teacher Talk Tuesday
What do teachers do over the summer?
A great question and one that I have kind of eluded to in some previous posts. The truth is, different teachers do many different things with their summers. Most of them choose to do some line of work whether it be tutoring, adds and ends jobs (most likely an hourly, summers only type thing), being a mommy, or simply taking the time off to travel or do nothing (and there is nothing wrong with that!). Summer is also a very common time for teachers to take classes. Regardless of any ambition to pursue a higher degree, most school districts/states require some professional development classes in order to renew their teaching license. Seeing as how the school months are filled with teaching the children duh, we prefer to take classes over the summer because it's easier to focus when you're not worried about your all encompassing classroom needs.
As I have mentioned before, Mike and I are filling our time with classes and small jobs. This is the only summer I will need to take masters degree courses and so far my response to this is, thank goodness! I have read more in the 2 weeks school has been out than I did in all my undergraduate courses (that gives you a bit of insight into how I spent my time as an undergrad., do not judge too harshly, I got a job didn't I?!) To give you a better visual, this adds up to be a sh**-ton of reading and I'm only about 1/4 of the way through!! I'm not complaining, I'm actually quite surprised with myself. Everything I have read has been really interesting, and I'm not afraid to admit it, and I am learning a ton.
Summertime in Northern Michigan, simply lovely.
Despite the more serious things we have going on, we will take time for some fun too. Mike is heading to Milwaukee this weekend for a Bachelor party and then next weekend we are headed to the good 'ol UP for the 4th of July. My extended family is all from the UP of Michigan (map included below for those of you saying, "why does she keep capitalizing the word up?!") More to come on that later. Until then, I have a lit. review due where I actually get to produce something intelligent from all this reading I have done... wish me luck!
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A great question and one that I have kind of eluded to in some previous posts. The truth is, different teachers do many different things with their summers. Most of them choose to do some line of work whether it be tutoring, adds and ends jobs (most likely an hourly, summers only type thing), being a mommy, or simply taking the time off to travel or do nothing (and there is nothing wrong with that!). Summer is also a very common time for teachers to take classes. Regardless of any ambition to pursue a higher degree, most school districts/states require some professional development classes in order to renew their teaching license. Seeing as how the school months are filled with teaching the children duh, we prefer to take classes over the summer because it's easier to focus when you're not worried about your all encompassing classroom needs.
As I have mentioned before, Mike and I are filling our time with classes and small jobs. This is the only summer I will need to take masters degree courses and so far my response to this is, thank goodness! I have read more in the 2 weeks school has been out than I did in all my undergraduate courses (that gives you a bit of insight into how I spent my time as an undergrad., do not judge too harshly, I got a job didn't I?!) To give you a better visual, this adds up to be a sh**-ton of reading and I'm only about 1/4 of the way through!! I'm not complaining, I'm actually quite surprised with myself. Everything I have read has been really interesting, and I'm not afraid to admit it, and I am learning a ton.
Summertime in Northern Michigan, simply lovely.
Despite the more serious things we have going on, we will take time for some fun too. Mike is heading to Milwaukee this weekend for a Bachelor party and then next weekend we are headed to the good 'ol UP for the 4th of July. My extended family is all from the UP of Michigan (map included below for those of you saying, "why does she keep capitalizing the word up?!") More to come on that later. Until then, I have a lit. review due where I actually get to produce something intelligent from all this reading I have done... wish me luck!
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