This is everything the PRAXIS doesn't prepare you for and no college course could ever teach, but that every administrator/superintendent expects of you.
10. Smile and nod. (Applicable to parents, administrators, and people in the hall you don’t know.)
9. Don’t give homework. If you do, make sure its something you can grade in class.
8. You must stay at school until 6pm. If not, it will appear as if you are resting on your laurels.
7. Compliance training is ok to fail. You can take the test again.
6. Be available for tutorials as much as possible. Be mindful to work around duty days, department meetings, CLT, mentor meetings, faculty meetings, new teacher breakfast, student recognition assemblies, and emergency meetings about scanning your organs.
5. Follow the curriculum plan and cover it with quality, engaging lessons. But be flexible enough to allow time for fire drills, lockdown drills, pep rallies, anti-bullying assemblies, fundraisers, teacher trainings, and Bus Emergency Day.
4. Find places to multitask. For example: Your 25 minute lunch period, on your way to an ARD, passing periods, meetings, during quality time with your significant other, driving, Thanksgiving, X-Mas, and Spring Break, and during staff development days.
3. Within the 4 minute passing period be able to: set up for next period, monitor the hall, enforce classroom procedures, assist needy students, and use the restroom.
2. Be a technology whiz, so at any given moment so you can e-mail updated to the second grades and disseminate tutorial schedules, calendar, homework, and announcements through the website. Know that this information will only be utilized by 3 parents. All others will directly contact you.
1. Be able to deliver a top notch staff development presentation to already quality teachers knowing full well there are people out there presenting the same information and getting paid more money than yourself.
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