I've been watching various videos about teacher's experiences.. it takes a special person to make the sacrifices necessary to keep pouring your hearts out to these students.. A lot of give, with little take. Its a shame everyone doesn't appreciate teachers as much as they should be appreciated and respected.
I teach at a title I school in Miami. Classroom management is what I spend the most time crafting and perfecting. The lessons, relationships, and everything else follow. Great advice!!
Hey I am from South Africa. I am 23 years old and I am doing my Bachelor's in Accounting this year and I just don't see myself in the corporate world. I wanna study education next year and I wanna teach high school. I am passionate about teenagers and I am glad to have found this video. Besides being a teacher, you should never take people's behaviour too personally in life generally. That will give you inner peace
I agree. Respecting the students is one of the bases to good classroom management. I am a freshly retired teacher. I taught ESL for 26 years to a tough clientele school and I modest aside, I had a good class control. One of the things I did was try to get into their shoes when they were bored or tired and just went to the kid and said to him "I cannot let you out of the room at all times, but if you feel the need to go to the bathroom, just ask me for permission and if I think its ok. I will give you the permission. If I had to scold them, I would always do it with a serene voice and tell them why I could not let them do what they were doing. It is not easy and it takes a lot of patience. I also tried to make my class active and fun for them. But being a teacher in today's world is sure not easy and I really really respect and admire all those who dare to teach nowadays.
You definately captured how teaching High School can be. And you are definately right when you say, one knows, if they are a "High School" teacher. Excellent video !
Amanda, I watched this video during the STRUGGLE of my first year of teaching high school in 2017 and it really impacted me. Now, I'm in graduate school and I'm rewatching as I write my final music education philosophy paper. So thank you ♥
Sooo relatable. I started my first year of teaching this year, and it’s been a rough year. I find so many mistakes I made throughout the year. I didn’t have any experience student teaching so I went in completely blind. High school is very tough. In a way I can’t wait to start on a clean slate next year.
Yes your best teaching will be your own experiences. I can give a bunch of suggestions because I've learned from my own mistakes and you will keep learning. With teaching you will never arrive. Every year you will encounter different personalities and different ways to deal with teaching. You got this! Cheers to next year!
@@stacyr4768 Great question! By treating them like people and not children or prisoners. lol The same way I would like to be treated. I greet them when I see them, ask how their day is going, pull them aside if I see somethings wrong (to not embarrass them). I allow them to make mistakes, give them second chances, explain my boundaries as an educator and ask them for their boundaries and expectations from me. I never think of them as just "kids" but as humans who deserve respect and I always envision, How would I want to be treated in my own class?
A lot of this resonated with me. I have worked with students from pre-K through 7th grade and I can say from experience that negative behaviors are NEVER about YOU! So much of what you're saying applies to students of all ages.
Thanks for sharing your experience! It's always nice to find high school teacher channels :) I definitely relate to finding the balance between nice and serious- still working on that! And trying to figure out freshmen... I currently teach middle school (grade 7) and love it, but I've also taught grade 9, 11 and 12, and Grade 9 for me was by far the most difficult to figure out!
I can relate. I just start subbing in NYC and I feel insecure because I am young and look even younger. I get nervous that no one will take me serious.
Just found your channel and I am loving it!!! I’m 22, just got my bachelors this past May and will hopefully start the credential program January 2019! (Working on passing the horrid social science CSET). I aspire to be a highschool history teacher and would love for you to keep doing these kinds of videos! How did you handle being a young teacher, especially a young female teacher, and getting the kids and staff to respect you. Building relationships. What to wear. All of it !
Please do more teacher videos!!! I graduate next year with my bachelors. How much time would you say you spend doing school work at home? This is something that worries me because I see teachers spend literally their entire life grading and prepping. Your input would be helpful! :)
I must be honest and say you spend YOUR LIFE prepping lol Especially the first year because you are making everything. PowerPoints, worksheets, grading. Its a lot. Of course there are resources online but you figure out really quickly that making your own stuff is just so much better. And if you are prepping for two different classes ex. I teach Economics and Current Events, so every day I am prepping for both. BUT it gets easier the following year because you have all of your stuff and you can spend time just revising the things you have from the previous year. Save everything. Hard copy and electronic.
Hey! I study Education in UNI in Brazil, and currently I’m an assistant teacher for preschoolers. I think it would be very interesting for us to exchange experiences, what do you think? I could send you my contact for us to just chat about how it is here and how it is there!
@@amandaros3 omg so true we look so much at other materials at first and then edit them to the point we basically create our own material. So true to save materials and then revise based on the specific class
A Day With Shay I teach elementary, but my advice to you after 21 years of teaching is this, pick and choose what is really important to grade. If not, you will burn out very quickly.
Great video. I just started a long term job today teaching Freshman Biology. I'll remember the "strict, but fair" part. I tried to look mean and strict but I don't think it's working. I'll be myself and be cool but still be strict.
Thank you! And remember consistency! freshman are young! They need stability, reminders and stability. Good much this year! Hang in there and great advice I got from my Principal this year was " always assume the best". It will change the way you view your students and they way you respond to them
I love your video profe!!! You are my motivation. Love the New York straight up directness too. I taught in Barranquilla and then Bucaramanga and learned right fast to "Be myself" and to have a flow and class management based on experience.
I was teaching high school in NYC for 2 years. I liked it...enough lol. Now I do Home Instruction with the DOE. I like that better than being in the schoolS. I only have 4-5 students but I have to teach any subject and GRADE that’s given to me.
I agree! I am a substitute and I don't like talking but I don't mind elementary students eating a snack or drinking. Some of their teachers don't allow it. As long as they are on task I don't mind, I don't want to see any child hungry in school. Spot on about what is important to you.
I liked what you said about you having to earn their respect yet give your respect to them while they disrespect you. I wonder if it also has something to do with the relationship they may feel being forced upon them and resisting the needed trust of you to protect themselves from the possibility that you (by you I just mean teachers in general) might let them down, you know like if they had a shotty childhood. Good video! Very thought-provoking, you must be a good teacher!
I want to say it is also in the private and rich areas too. I taught at a private university and also private Bilingual school in Barranquilla, Colombia and the respect is definitely EARNED and we are giving a Service. Especially in high school and university they are paying for your service. Be yourself and find your style as a teacher and use the students names in activities they will love you
Really appreciated this video. I’m starting student teaching this year, and I’ve worked in middle school before. It was great to learn about your experience in high school.
I’ve been teaching 3rd grade for 20 years and this advice works great even in primary elementary school! Also, you said about being strict but fair, I do strict but fair and also be funny
I love this video!!!!! I have a question :) I am seriously considering being a teacher for English. But I don’t know if I can be a teacher forever. I know that if this is my passion I can. But did you ever think like this when you were considering being a teacher or even now?
Hey! Those feelings are so normal! When I initially started teaching I was like “I know I am supposed to teach! It’s my passion, and my calling!” Although I still feel that way, teaching is a lot of work, physically and mentally. I am currently considering other areas in the education field because I’m not sure if I can be so “on it”, alert and relevant at 50 lol
Hey, NYC teacher greetings! Can definitely relate to all of this. So much like my thought process, as I was learning the trade! Actually felt blessed to be given a classroom with no back door. I'm sure it's a complete violation of fire codes, but I'm confident we'll never all be burned to a crisp! HS definitely the way to go. Love my juniors! Think that's the best year. Freshman are harder to teach, though often endearing. So, now this video is more than 3 years old, and we all just need to get vaccinated and get back in the building. This situation is horrible. Never imagined anything like this. I feel terrible for my kids who are having everything taken away from them.
I just found your channel, and I love the teaching videos! Most things like this and most of my classes are geared towards elementary, so I love getting a high school teacher's perspective. I just graduated and I'm taking over for a teacher who suddenly resigned. I'm not even certified yet, so I'll basically be subbing, and it's not my content area, so I feel like I'm in way over my head. Any advice I can get is welcome!
Little late to the party but whatevz xD I've been teaching high school for 5 years and I love every single bit of it. Problem is that I started in a school for middle to low-class students where the kids were so nice and so eager to learn that teaching was not a problem. I had classrooms of 60 to 75 HS kids on the palm of my hand. This school year, I switched schools and now I'm teaching middle and HS in a very expensive and prestigious school (which I'm a graduate from but back in my day it wasn't expensive at all); so I'm dealing with rich kids who believe I work for them and that they pay my salary... I'm struggling with so much disrespect from many of them, especially seniors! Don't get me wrong, I love them but sometimes it's hard to keep going...
@@amandaros3 Good Day! I'm from the Philippines and I find your video very informative and entertaining. By the way, I am a freshman taking-up Bachelor of secondary education here in the Philippines. I just want to ask if after I graduate, is there a possibility that I could also work in New York?
Hi, first off, I would like to say I'm so grateful to have found your youtube channel! It's so refreshing to see a female high-school history teacher. I'm currently in college to do the same and am in New York as well. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what materials to use to study for the history/ social studies Content Specialty Test?
I’ve always wanted to teach Psychology. Are there many job openings for this? Am I able to teach just psychology or do I need to teach other subjects as well?
You need to be in Leadership / Principalship any time now (M.Ed? in that area) and subsequent teacher Training/Trainer ?.....for your ability of Impact. You would have also been good in the military or as a police woman as well. all compliments :)
Just retired from similar setting. You didn’t mention your administration and if you felt supported or not. What about the pressure of observations etc. Sometimes you have to enforce rules that the administration sets or the DOE sets, that you don’t agree with ... but you can’t be insubordinate. Also you didn’t mention how much work you have to bring home in evening and on weekends. I understand that your still in the system .... and that you can’t really say anything negative about your current situation ....
Hey Quiller! I’m at a charter school so most of my experiences are going to b different from someone who works in the DOE but every job has expectations and requirements that come with the job. This video was more about how I deal with the students, not the system. Observations are stressful but if you’re enforcing rules and expectations from tthe beginning then it’s not as nerve racking when my supervision enters my room. Also I am blessed to work in a small school- 400 students. My administrations and AP are aware of problematic students and take those things into account. And taking work home is a given. I do admit, I get nervous about having a child because I do not know how I will manage work and a new born but I genuinely enjoy preparing assignments and activities that I hope ( fingers crossed) my students will enjoy. But I think it’s because my school as a great discipline policy and administration really does support us. Again I think a lot of t had to do with being in a charter school so they are always concerned with Teacher retention. Many things are done democratically at my school
Amanda Rose wow. Thanks for getting back to me so fast. You’re lucky you have a supportive administration. When you talk, I can tell that you really like the kids! That is so important! Keep going! Kids need someone who is”firm but fair!” Always keep your sense of humor, take care of yourself emotionally and physically, and sock away as much as possible into a 403b!!! Best of luck!!!
The thing I do not get is I thought you need master degree to teach high school and you’re only 22 how? Can you tell me? I am thinking of becoming a teacher! Thanks
-You need a Masters degree to keep your license. In NY you can teach with an Initial certification (Bachelors degree) -My process: Bachelor's degree- Majored in History and minored in Education. I did student teaching, observation hours and my History courses all while in undergrad. -I completed all of the seminars and passed all of the exams necessary for teaching before I graduated with my Bachelors degree. -I received an Initial Certificate which lets you teach right away. The state of NY gives you 5 years to complete a Masters program in order to keep teaching and earn a Professional license. If after the 5 years you have still not completed a masters program you can apply for a 2 year Extension on your Initial Certificate. **also please keep in mind I graduated with my Bachelors in 2011)** some of these rules may have changed but when I was in school this is how I did it.
lol Its not AMAZING pay, but it is good pay and your pay increases every year. You can make up to 100,000 long term. Im obviously no where near that amount but your salary does increase. You can check the NYC DOE salary steps online for more info
Depends where you’re from. The school I attend is in the third highest paying district in california and the teachers there make around 80,000 to 90,000 a year
I’d be worried to teach high schoolers because what if male students are lonely and desperate for any female attention to the point they hit on the female teachers
