Advice needed please...

Lbstyling_2

Apologies- number is gross. Any yes this includes SMP.

marliepanda

Lbstyling wrote: »

Marlie- this would start in 5 months time as the baby is due at this point.

Suppy work is looked down on when applying to a full-time post later, you must know this.

I actually don't know this. As I said, three of my friends found full time work after working on supply. How is it 'looked down upon'? Sorry but you are talking out of your behind. I'm sure taking a year out to 'do up a house' and be on the dole is looked on marvellously.

Another older friend recently got a deputy head post after a two term stint on supply.

Not being able to spell 'supply' is looked down upon when wanting to teach though, if you want to be so high and mighty.

tomtontom

Lbstyling wrote: »

Marlie- this would start in 5 months time as the baby is due at this point.

Suppy work is looked down on when applying to a full-time post later, you must know this.

The work needs to be done now. Child services would be after me if I left it alone!

No stairs, we are using a ladder.
Exposed electrics everywhere.
The roof on the back half of the house has sections that are just tarpaulin and need replacing every 3 months until I fit the roof.

Let your comformation bias go for a minute and think about what your saying!

Then do it now and not in six months time.

Goodness knows how you're going to cope with all the planning a teacher has to do!

Loanranger

You need to rent a habitable place or live with parents while your house is brought up to standard. You also need to get a job.
A supply job is better than no teaching job at all. That really would be detrimental to your career.
Alternatively, get your wife back to work after three weeks or whatever the minimum period is now, post natal, and she can support you while you look after baby and do the building work when she home from work when she can she look after the baby.
Job centre will be down on you like a ton of bricks to get a job otherwise and rightly so.

NYM

marliepanda wrote: »

....Not being able to spell 'supply' is looked down upon when wanting to teach though, if you want to be so high and mighty....

It may have been a genuine mistype, but he has spelt 'confirmation' as 'conformation' twice! That certainly isn't a mistype.

Lbstyling_2

Ha ha - such a teacher! I passed the skills test remember- the one that you can only take 3 times now. But yes, I am dyslexic. I hope you don't pick up your students spelling mistakes in such a manor.

I'm going to guess you teach an academic subject?
Fitting if so....

Definition-
3. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly theoretical: dismissed the article as a dry, academic exercise.

Did I communicate my point effectively enough for you to understand the message? Yes? Then get a life.
Dyslexia is a disability, get over it.

We seam to disagree on general opinions of supply posts. But then how likely is it your colleges would state this to a former supply teacher? The course director suggested this issue to me, and he is a senior offsted inspector, so he MUST be wrong!

marliepanda

NYM wrote: »

It may have been a genuine mistype, but he has spelt 'confirmation' as 'conformation' twice! That certainly isn't a mistype.

As I'm a total sad case and most of my friends are teachers I've just done a little Q & A session with them. All of them said their schools have taken on, in the past year, teachers who have been there on supply and made a 'good impression' Some as long term maternity cover type jobs and some as general jobs. Two also said their schools had sacked crap NQTs (not renewed contracts...) and taken on the supply teachers who had covered their NQT time as they knew the children well.

Obviously I only know my own area, and I'm talking about primary, not secondary, but I have not seen any indication of supply teachers being looked down upon, in the three schools I have worked in and in my own experience. I actually worked in Marks and Spencer after my PGCE as I lived in a city where no one ever left their teaching jobs and all my cohort moved out of the city (I could not) I then moved to my home town, started supply and then got a job in the school I was supply teaching in. So my shop assistant and supply teaching wasn't looked down upon. My school also frequently hires those who have previously been teaching assistants whilst qualified teachers.

marliepanda

Lbstyling wrote: »

Ha ha - such a teacher! I passed the skills test remember- the one that you can only take 3 times now. But yes, I am dyslexic. I hope you don't pick up your students spelling mistakes in such a manor.

I'm going to guess you teach an academic subject?
Fitting if so....

Definition-
3. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly theoretical: dismissed the article as a dry, academic exercise.

Did I communicate my point effectively enough for you to understand the message? Yes? Then get a life.
Dyslexia is a disability, get over it.

We seam to disagree on general opinions of supply posts. But then how likely is it your colleges would state this to a former supply teacher? The course director suggested this issue to me, and he is a senior offsted inspector, so he MUST be wrong!

Manner* seem* colleagues* These are not dyslexic mistakes, that's just poor spelling and knowledge of homophones.

And ofsted has one f, that's something to learn if you want to impress them.

tomtontom

I have a feeling the reason why you may struggle to find employment is not supply work, nor your claimed dyslexia. Would you want your child to be taught with someone who lacks the ability to plan, has an extremely poor attitude to his peers, and a complete inability to think outside the box and find more workable methods of completing his project?

(And dyslexia *may* be a disability in very limited cases, where it is sufficient to have a substantial impact on day to day activities. In the majority of cases it is not.)

Lbstyling_2

OK, I have poor spelling and use of homophones.

The problem is still academic.

I'm sure you have wonderful PowerPoint presentations for your classes and many many green pens. Great.

Handwriting quality, spelling, mental arithmetic, maths, languages, summative assessment, and many others are all obsolete beyond KS2. The only reason you picked up on these spelling mistakes is because I'm not using a spell checker.

The world your living in, like your arguement is obsolete.

Thats just by todays technology. The jobs you teach student for don't even exist yet. Change your mind set.