Have you heard about the next planned Survivor show?
Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped in an elementary
school classroom for 6 weeks.
Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district's
curriculum, and a class of 28 students.
Each class will have five learning-disabled children, three with A.D.D., one
gifted child, and two who speak limited English. Three will be labeled as severe
behaviour problems. Each business person must complete lesson
plans at least 3 days in advance with annotations for
curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create
materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle
misconduct, implement technology, document attendance, write referrals, correct
homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards, document
benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences.
They must also supervise recess and monitor the hallways.
They must complete drills for fire, tornadoes, and shooting attacks.
They must attend workshops, (100 hours), faculty meetings, union meetings, and
curriculum development meetings.
They must also tutor those students who are behind and strive to get their 2
non-English speaking children proficient enough to take the Terra Nova and MEAP
tests.
If they are sick or having a bad day they must not let it show.
Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social
studies into the program. They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally
stimulating environment at all times.
The business people will only have access to the golf course on the weekends,
but on their new salary they will not be able to afford it anyway.
There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch and lunch
time will be limited to 30 minutes.
On days when they do not have recess duty, the business people will be permitted
to use the staff restroom as long as another survival candidate is supervising
their class.
They will be provided with two 40-minute planning periods per week while their
students are at specials (music, art, gym, etc.).
If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials at this
time.
The business people must continually advance their education on their own time
and pay for this advanced training themselves. This can be accomplished by
moonlighting at a second job or marrying someone with
money.
The winner will be allowed to return to his or her job.
Pass this to your firiends who think teaching is easy and to the ones who know
that it is hard. They will both benefit.