u/Actual-Swing9316

We have to use the bluebonnet curriculum. (I won’t go into specifics about my grade level and subject as I don’t want to give identifiable info). Dense slides with poor explanations. example and practice problems that don’t take into consideration the average student is behind in math and needs more simple “starter problems” or explanations.

I’m doing my best to pick out the key concepts, cut out complicated problems and getting kids to understand at the basics but this is miserable and school just started 2 weeks ago. The pacing is so quick I can’t just spend multiple days on one topic so I’m basically left to cut my losses and get the kids to understand the bare bones ..

But I didn’t take into consideration how much the roster changes the first few days due to students changing courses and such🫠 I teach high school and half my classes seating charts are a mess right now I literally just told them sit where you want right now disregard seating chart I’ll have finalized one that I will follow next week 😶‍🌫️

I got hired for first year teaching position and I have orientation in a week(I’m supposed to get the contract after orientation). My alternative certification coordinator sent over my SOE to HR for the school district about 10 ish days ago and I haven’t heard anything back. The district has to fill out the SOE in order for my ACP to request my intern certificate from the TEA.

Is this normal ?

It just makes me nervous. I already had an offer revoked a few weeks ago through no fault of my own. I need to decide on whether to renew my lease by the end of this week so like I need to know for sure that I have a job :/

I’m located in Houston. I’m looking for districts in/around San Antonio and Austin that are open to hiring new teachers with just a statement of eligibility (not full certification). My one requirement is that it’s either in the city or in the burbs within driving distance of the city! Since I’ve pretty much given up on my Houston job search— it’s so competitive here! The latest feedback I got from the last interview in the Houston area was: we really liked your energy, but we went with another candidate with more experience.

**this was my original post here on this sub ~4 days ago:
I’m a new teacher. This has been the most demoralizing job search I’ve ever done
I’m coming in from a different field and I have my statement of eligibility in math 7-12. I never had issues getting interviews/offers from my previous career. I’m applying to secondary math positions. This is now going to be my eighth interview today. It’s the same thing every freaking time. The admin see math on my application. Calls me in for interview before even looking at my lack of experience. I sit down for the interview. The AP looks at my resume and realizes I have no classroom experience aside from a few months of day to day subbing in the spring; and the AP begins to check out mentally within the first 5 minutes.
This has been awful and I need a job.

I’m coming in from a different field and I have my statement of eligibility in math 7-12. I never had issues getting interviews/offers from my previous career. I’m applying to secondary math positions. This is now going to be my eighth interview today. It’s the same thing every freaking time. The admin see math on my application. Calls me in for interview before even looking at my lack of experience. I sit down for the interview. The AP looks at my resume and realizes I have no classroom experience aside from a few months of day to day subbing in the spring; and the AP begins to check out mentally within the first 5 minutes.
This has been awful and I need a job.

I have my statement of eligibility in secondary math and have applied to 7 school districts, and went to 3 job fairs. So far it’s crickets. I understand the new Texas laws that restrict the hiring of uncertified teachers. I do regret not finding a way to do student teaching this spring since that would’ve meant I’d be fully certified by now. I’m concerned, and considering applying to districts in other cities too.

I’m 25 so I’d like to believe much of this is reversible. I spent 3 years in an office job (I left - no longer at office job ) with prolonged sitting, stress, and awful ergonomics. I went from healthy to now ulnar tunnel, forward head posture, lumbar disc bulge with sciatica. I haven’t sat at a desk in ~5 months now, but I’ve been unable to recover. I can’t tolerate PT, even the most basic exercises like bird dogs I can’t do. It flares everything. So what next ?

I’m currently a sub for a district in a state that has a statewide phone ban for students. This district provides laptops for every class and students always have free use of these laptops. I assume this is typical, and I understand much of their homework is online and that students should not be expected to buy their own laptops. I primarily sub for high school.

The ways these students use these school issued laptops is not great. Most websites aren’t blocked maybe with the exception of a few social media sites blocked on school WiFi. Students get so off task— they’re either gaming, using ai chatbots, recording videos, watching YouTube videos. Anything but their assignments. How is this much different from phones?

It seems a bit pointless imho. I have to be the phone police and remind students to put away the phone (state law!) but at the same time these laptops are like the new classroom phones. I can’t tell them to put away their laptops; technically they need it for “school work.” So I have to be the laptop screen monitor police too.

I understand that the problem is magnified because I’m a sub, it’s the end of the school year, and it’s not like the students are going to listen to me like they do their regular teacher!

I’m just frustrated. Several times this week I heard something to the effect of one student saying to another “oooo you shouldn’t be on that website ..” I walk over there and the student closes out the tab. God knows what that student just had open on their computer