Support thread for educators of any type, academics, teachers, early years etc.
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Dec 2023
8:42pm, 12 Dec 2023
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Special*K
Sounds like an interesting tutoring project. Hopefully keen to learn from you! I teach reception and we're in full nativity mode this week, as well as trying to fit in phonics assessments, end of term data etc. It really feels like the never ending term still! |
Dec 2023
10:21pm, 28 Dec 2023
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hellen
Hello, I’ve not looked on the forums for a while but decided to have a bit of a catch up. Anyone else here a full time tutor? I spent 26 years teaching Economics then when everything went online I did a bit of tutoring. Really liked it and was getting more enquiries than I could handle so ended up leaving school and the politics and full time tutoring. Am 1 year and 1 term in and loving it. It means I work every evening except Friday but I can go for a run in the daytime which is great. |
Dec 2023
11:01pm, 28 Dec 2023
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LindsD
Interesting. My daughter is going to have a sociology tutor starting in Jan. She's yr 13. Do you tutor online?
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Dec 2023
7:32pm, 29 Dec 2023
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Grast_girl
Welcome hellen. I'm somewhat jealous of the new work-life balance you've achieved. Just having a nice quiet (no emails) time.
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Dec 2023
10:46pm, 29 Dec 2023
15,011 posts
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hellen
Hi LindsD, yes I tutor online, it actually works really well once you have the technology sorted and the online resources. The only downsides are long days and not getting the holidays. One day I start at 6,30am and finish at 10pm (but have a big gap in the middle of the day). As I have a lot of year 13 I have been working over Christmas. |
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Dec 2023
6:53am, 30 Dec 2023
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LindsD
That's really interesting. Glad it worked out for you.
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16 Jan
10:02am, 16 Jan 2024
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Grast_girl
Q1: I know you're not supposed to get emotionally attached to students in teaching professions, but how do you avoid it when you've been through so much together? A specific situation is affecting me so much that I can't concentrate on much else. Q2: Last year I had a Palestinian student get very upset about the mention of Haifa being part of Israel. Obviously this will be even more heightened this year given the Israeli-Palestinian war currently going on. It's a Food Science module, so I don't think it's appropriate to get into the geopolitics for something that isn't even going to be examined. I'm only mentioning it as it's where we have the oldest evidence of alcohol production, so it's a bit of context. Any suggestions for how to handle it? |
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16 Jan
10:23am, 16 Jan 2024
66,156 posts
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LindsD
Both of those sound really tough. For Q1, I think it's OK to have some kind of attachment as long as professional boundaries are in place. It does sound like you might benefit from dumping those feeling elsewhere, though. My institution is part of EAP which offers fairly quick online counselling. You only get six sessions but that might be enough. Alternatively, is there someone in your workplace you trust you could talk to? I had a student whose father died around the same time as mine. She really struggled, but ultimately got a distinction. I didn't tell her until she'd graduated that we'd been going through the same things at the same time, but felt it was OK to tell her then. Q2Do you have to mention it's part of Israel? Can you say it's part of disputed territory or just not mention which country it's in at all? |
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16 Jan
3:04pm, 16 Jan 2024
3,037 posts
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Grast_girl
ThanksLindsD Q1: After 4 years of fighting to keep things going (through Covid and other stuff) I think it would be hard not to have some attachment, but I'm just surprised how tough being ghosted this close to the end is. We have counselling available. I guess I'm just concerned about opening the flood gates. Q2: Officially, I don't think it is disputed, because it happened as part of the creation of Israel in 1948, although the student was recounting a pretty gruesome affair with people being violently expelled from their homes. The one solution I'd thought of before is a map without country boundaries marked on it. I didn't want to erase the name completely because that seems like it would be almost as bad. |
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16 Jan
3:35pm, 16 Jan 2024
66,157 posts
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LindsD
Q2 sounds like a good solution The fact that you are worried about floodgates suggests to me that counselling is necessary and important. *said in a very gentle voice*. You know that I basically had a breakdown because of stress and pressure from a job very similar to yours, so please see my advice with that in mind. Hugs |
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