So I may or may not be at a graduation ceremony at columbia in a few years, I just applied to a principals program. I am not nervous about whether or not I get in, because I know I will be a friggin mess if I do get in. People in the program this year were saying how they would spend nights sleeping in the computer lab because it was so intense.
Moreover, if I become a principal I have to accept the constantly more relevant truth: I am a grown ass man. This one is hard, especially considering the amount of beer I'm going to drink in 48 hours. But really, when I think about it, I'm irresponsible as hell, and not organized, or mature for that matter either. It's easy to tell about all three when you're put in charge of a class of ninth graders and look about as organized as they do on a day to day basis. We just got a math coach...after about a good year or 3 with no support. This guy came in my room and started rattling off all these theories about classroom management, and what my first steps should be in implementing these theories. It wasn't a surprise, I knew what they all were, I just haven't done it.
In other news, my dad has the most chillax version of cancer around because both my parents are not even stressing about it. which is cool, since I won't be going home any time soon, now I can feel less like I'm abandoning my family. I'll be back to bother the mess out of them come february break though.
And I'll go on the record with this now, the Macbook Air thing, its lame.
2 comments:
classroom management theorists, by my observation, have spent almost no time trying to implement their theories.
its just social control on a smaller scale--and we all know how well that has worked out. absent corporal punishment, i would think order in the sense a classroom management professional would describe it, is nothing short of a pipedream
The best classroom management people are grizzled union loyalist who have better things to do than write down books. And the things they do are bigger than any theorist can write down. Reading a book, or even taking a class about classroom management give a good of an understanding of what your supposed to as reading a paragraph about thunderstorms would prepare you for a carribbean hurricane season.
It is exactly social control, which is not easy. Next time some anti-establishment hippie starts giving you the stank eye because you don't recognize anarchy as a sustainable form of government tell them to go teach 9th grade. It's weird setting up your own environment, the main plan is that the class is run like a sort of democracy that you control with an iron fist. This fails quickly, cause you're not perfect. You have to create a system that they can understand and buy into and then when you make a mistake they can fix it for you. its hard.
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