{"id":1511,"date":"2008-12-03T11:37:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/12\/03\/questions-about-teaching\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:37:38","slug":"questions-about-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/12\/03\/questions-about-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about being a public school math teacher through a teaching fellows program such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycteachingfellows.org\/\">New York City Teaching Fellows<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that teaching could be a convergence of my technical knowledge, desire for social change, and belief in transformation and experience with teachers being important to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m not 100% sure this is the best way for me to do these things, so I&#8217;ve compiled a survey of questions that are important to me.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a teacher, can you comment on this post with your answers?\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to give me feedback by e-mail or phone, just e-mail me and I&#8217;ll get back to you.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know someone who is a teacher (or who was a teacher and decided to do something else), can you please forward this to them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to teach in a public school?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some elements\u00c2\u00a0 of your identity and personal history that have caused tension with your students, what are some that have created unity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In what ways were you able to develop your own curriculum?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How has standardized testing and other aspects of NCLB affected your classroom experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are things that affect your classroom that you feel are beyond your ability to change? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How have you been able to incorporate personal interests or passions (playing music, cycling, etc.) into your teaching? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What were some things that were different from your expectations about teaching?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How does your teaching affect social change?\u00c2\u00a0 How does you teaching fit in with other community organizing\/activism you do? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What things have been most frustrating, disappointing about teaching?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you feel like your values and ideas are shared by fellow teachers?\u00c2\u00a0 By the administration?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How have you tried to make what you teach relevant to the community where you teach?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How have you collaborated with community groups or national movements? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How much time does teaching take up in your life?\u00c2\u00a0 How are these hours spent?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you set boundaries to make time for your personal life? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In what ways are you involved in your school outside of your classroom? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else you want to add?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about being a public school math teacher through a teaching fellows program such as New York City Teaching Fellows.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that teaching could be a convergence of my technical knowledge, desire for social change, and belief in transformation and experience with teachers being important to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m not 100% sure this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/12\/03\/questions-about-teaching\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questions about teaching<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14314,650],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-questions","tag-teaching","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-on","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}