I had the pleasure of interview my boyfriends step mom, Jackie Wolter. Jackie has been a teacher for a little over 3 years now. She switched professions from dancing to teaching when she realized that her true calling was kids. She now teaches 2nd graders at Yakes elementary school in Brownstown, Michigan. You could tell how much she enjoys her job when she talks about her little “kiddos”. We talked about how she majored in reading and says it’s one of her favorite subjects to teach. Although, she also mentioned how her school isn’t allowing a lot of autonomy right now which is making her job a bit harder to teach. The school received a new reading curriculum that does not allow much wiggle room and it also has a lot of parents frustrated
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I said time as one of the struggles because more parents are working in today's society and they're working long hours. It will be harder to make connections with parents about praises/concerns or even helping the parents out with the homework if they don’t understand it. A good way to try and help this problem would be to offer many types of communications and even opening the hours of communication to later on in the evening to accommodate some parents. I said trying to keep an open mind as my next struggle because I know I will be dealing with some broken homes and some iffy parents or guardians. I am very sensitive and very empathetic when it comes to other people especially children and I feel like I will take some things personally that I shouldn’t. I think this will be a challenge that I will always be working on, but some good tips I’ve found to help me so far is waiting 24 hours before approaching a problem. Another way I can help myself is being very open to parents about my care for their kids and their well-being. The last main challenge I think I will have that also goes along with the 2nd challenge is not getting too attached with the kids. I am worried I will try to play parent with some of them instead of teacher, especially to those kids that maybe don’t have that caring figure at home. A plan for me to not get too attached is to communicate with the parents. The more I communicate with the parents, the better I will feel knowing that their child is being looked after when they leave
I said time as one of the struggles because more parents are working in today's society and they're working long hours. It will be harder to make connections with parents about praises/concerns or even helping the parents out with the homework if they don’t understand it. A good way to try and help this problem would be to offer many types of communications and even opening the hours of communication to later on in the evening to accommodate some parents. I said trying to keep an open mind as my next struggle because I know I will be dealing with some broken homes and some iffy parents or guardians. I am very sensitive and very empathetic when it comes to other people especially children and I feel like I will take some things personally that I shouldn’t. I think this will be a challenge that I will always be working on, but some good tips I’ve found to help me so far is waiting 24 hours before approaching a problem. Another way I can help myself is being very open to parents about my care for their kids and their well-being. The last main challenge I think I will have that also goes along with the 2nd challenge is not getting too attached with the kids. I am worried I will try to play parent with some of them instead of teacher, especially to those kids that maybe don’t have that caring figure at home. A plan for me to not get too attached is to communicate with the parents. The more I communicate with the parents, the better I will feel knowing that their child is being looked after when they leave