My Most Irrational Classroom Pet Peeve
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Teacher besties… this episode has everything: licensure panic, conspiracy theories about teacher testing companies, medical dramas I probably shouldn’t have described in detail, and one first-year teacher who is being absolutely swarmed during passing period.
Gerry is in his final form of teacher paperwork chaos, grinding through the edTPA like it personally offended him, and I may or may not have gone on a small rant about why some of these hoops exist in the first place.
We also debate whether PE teachers really need a Praxis (Gerry has thoughts), spiral into television recommendations that absolutely should not be watched with children nearby, and answer a classroom management question that I know so many of you are living right now: how do you survive those first five minutes of class without losing your mind?
Plus, we share irrational classroom pet peeves, discuss why students absolutely cannot “just do it at home,” and Gerry unveils what might be his final, grand Potoka.
Takeaways:
Why Gerry believes this is the edTPA’s toughest opponent yet.
My completely unverified theory about who really benefits from teacher testing requirements.
The one classroom management move that will instantly stop the passing-period swarm.
The pet peeve that will make Gerry physically lock a door.
Why “I’ll just do it at home” is one of the most dangerous lies in education.
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