https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy en-us 2023-01-12 17:31:04 UTC 2025-10-18 10:44:31 UTC hello@padlet.com ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2442623097 Motivation is hard for me. Everytime I have started a new job or hobby or anything for most of my life, it did not take long before I didn't like it or wanted to move on. This article is a valuable take on staying motivated as a teacher. We are in an era of mass exodus in this industry and this article reflects some of the reasonings for that happening. Putting myself into a teachers shoes right now in this moment. You just went a month off from your job for the winter break. Your motivation from august has slowed drastically, the weather sucks, you have some seasonal allergies going on and now you have to put on a brave face in school for another 5 months before the summer. That would be draining and difficult. These 6 things to consider are valuable to keep in mind for my own teachers now, as well as for myself in the future.]]> 2023-01-12 17:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2442623097 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567497339 I am of course not advocating for the use of AI programs when completing homework assignments, nor am I condoning any other type of behavior like that. However the reality and future teachers is that we are still a few years away from the classroom and from having to grade research papers and essays that could have been using Chat GPT or whatever other AI tool gets created in the next few years. During my time in high school, the most sophisticated thing you could do to cheat on a written assignment was to go to one of those paper writng websites and pay some random human somewhere around the world to just write one for you. I never did that so I have no idea how reliable they were in terms of getting caught for cheating, however the facilities to do that now are so much more robust that, this link and article will be a vital resourse for teachers and students alike moving forward.]]> 2023-04-25 16:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567497339 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567513842 This article describes a court case that started in 2014 in which two school board memebers blocked a husband and wife on social media becasue they were constatnly harrassing them on facebook and twitter. I will not get too much into the nitty gritty of the actual case becasue you can just read the article for yourself, however, it brings up an interesting case into the future of free speech online and also potentially the freedom of privacy for teachers. The court basically said that because the accounts of the board members were being used as governmental information sites, they would post about school board meetings and snow days and etc., that blocking citizens from governmental things is against the rules. I know as a teacher we would have different rights, but what if in the future we are required to use social media as a communication method with students and we get harrassed. Very interesting to see how this will play out.]]> 2023-04-25 16:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567513842 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567524005 One of the things that has stood out to me this entire semester is that week after week, lesson after lesson, we hear about the horror stories of being a teacher. Why getting support from other teachers and faculty is so hard. Why parents suck, why motivating and keeping students interested is becoming harder and harder. The more we read and the more we learn, the more hopeless it seems. But then, like a pheonix rising from the ashes stuff like this pops up. Being a teacher is worth it becasue it is our calling. Teaching is worth it becasue you are a catalyst that can change a kids life. One of your students may be president some day. It all goes back to the first week of class when we learned about the internal and external validation that comes with teaching and this article is one of those external ones. Students really being honest with themselves about what they see from their teachers day to day is largely positive, and this survey was mostly done with teenagers who are notoriously... lets just say weird. Being recognized for hard work makes the work less hard.]]> 2023-04-25 16:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567524005 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567535743 I really love this article because of the implications it can have on a nationwide scale. We have learned all year about how low retention rates are for teachers and how hard it is for schools to recurit new teachers when a massive percentage of them come in for a year or two and then leave the profession. Any silicon valley company worth there salt has figured out a way to keep employees happy and working with them despite low pay, perks. I know that if you work at Snapchat in california, they will pay 100% of the cost it takes for you to commute and have an entire cafeteria in house that is free for all employees as much as you want. They even have little sleeping areas for you to get a nap in during a long day. In theory these things just seem like a forward thinking company being nice to their employees, but in reality they are a way to keep the low paid workers, working. As bad as this is going to sound, the same thing can be done for teachers, subsidizing housing that is nearby the school. Having lowcost in house meals, the list is endless, but those sort of perks will make it harder for teachers to leave the profession, especially young teachers.]]> 2023-04-25 16:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567535743 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567544094 This article was very intruiging to me becasue as a very competitive person I find it hard to excell in some things based on the fact that I have nothing to compete against. Maybe this is a bad thing to say but, why would I work harder if I get nothing extra for it? Well this school in California has created someone of an answer to that problem when it comes to teachers. The system works basically exactly how it sounds, the better your students become at understanding your lessons, the more you will get paid. The details are a little bit fuzzy in this article as the exact implementation but the numbers and the headline make sense. "At Vaughn, Principal Yvonne Chan has instituted a system in which teachers can earn an additional $17,000 a year in performance-based bonuses." That bonus buys a car. I want to work at that school immediately.]]> 2023-04-25 16:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567544094 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567553893 This article briefly talks about the statistics of men in the education system as teachers and when we link this information to the information we learned in the book about upper management being largely white men. This article talks about a steady decline in men being teachers since the 1960s. I think that a lot of this comes from the pay. I add the caveat that I disagree with this as an acceptable thing, but also the data shows that it is largely true. Men tend to gravitate towards high risk and high reward professions, and teaching is a low reward profession monetarily. Men are incentivized by the patriarchy to become a big shot and bring home the big bucks to support the family. In most states and cases that is not possible to do on a teachers salary. Again, I do not agree that this is an acceptable thing, but it is the reality. The article says that 35% of secondary education teachers are male and I cannot wait to join that statistic.]]> 2023-04-25 16:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567553893 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567561848 This article is about the story of a woman who followed in her mothers footsteps in the teaching industry and how thankful she is of the opportunities she was afforded due to nepotism. She talks about how she feels additional pressure to be the best teacher she can be becasue her mom set such a high standard. My response to this, especially to people who would potentially be upset by the nepotism involved and the opportunities given to this women that otherwise would not have without the nepotism is. Who cares. Her school has been rewarded with a fantastic teacher, who actively tries harder at her job to follow in her moms steps. Nationwide we have experienced a shortage of teachers, much less good ones. Anyone who would complain about there being a good teacher becuase of how she got there doesn't see the greater picture. In education, nepotism is a good thing.]]> 2023-04-25 17:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567561848 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567568189 Throughout the course of education history we have heard this topic with every new introduction of instructional technology. The chalk board, the projector, the calculator, the list goes on and on. We have this argument every single time and every single time the industry figures it out in one way or another. In a few years some teacher will figure out how to use Chat GPT and other AI bots to their advantage and this whole argument will be squashed. It is so predictable to see these things coming from a mile away. Also I think this one has an interesting dynamic in the sense that a student doesn't have to use it. I am writing this right now without the help of AI and I think I am doing just fine. When the calculator was invented, its not like we stopped doing math by hand, it was just an aide.]]> 2023-04-25 17:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2567568189 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2570790017 I learned about this report through another article https://theeducatorsroom.com/education-funding-fair-funding-education-law-center-report/ in which a teacher from Minnesota spoke about her districts faillures and malnurished amount of funding. Her state actually grades fairly well, however in her article, she talks about how her school is having to take out loans in order to pay teacher salaries. How her school spends about $300 on each student while other schools and districts spend upwards of $2000 per student. Even someone who has lived under a rock their whole life and only knows the value of numbers can see that these two situations are inequal. Looking at the nationwide report we can see a very sad state of affairs all over the country, by my count, only 23 of the 51 states (they include DC) do NOT include an F in one of the grading scales (Funding Level, Funding Distribution, and Funding Effort). From a selfish standpoint I was happy to see Nebraska score pretty well, with two C's and one A. Thats like a B- average, we will take that!]]> 2023-04-27 18:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2570790017 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2570802290 Okay becuase we had to do 12 of these I decided that I would pick one funny one, I wanted to get a local perspective on one of these so I went to the journal star. This article right away stook out to me becasue, well, duh. High schoolers having sex was at a decade low during the pandemic. I mean, yeah, people didn't go outside, how would you.... ya know what nevermind. Also in the article is discussion about a more important issue that arose during the pandemic. Mental Health. An adolescent sex behavior researcher interstingly links the two which was not what I thought this was going to be about. Basically, she says that because of the mental health decline and social isolation, kids are having less sex and also less intersocial interaction. Which is really bad. They actually argue that kids are having too little sex which, again, I found hilarious. We really just need to find a middle ground where teens interact with one another positiviely without needing to have unsafe sex.]]> 2023-04-27 18:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2570802290 ethanhutchison3_1 https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2570816716 Todays parents are choosing what schools their kids went to based on their own experience. This article details this phenomenon by saying that parents 20 years ago would choose this based on information created by the schools themselves and social networking. This sounds a lot to me like the vaccinating children issue, for better or worse, everyone thinks their experience and their research is correct. Some of the quotes from the article are from parents who say that they went to a private school and had a good experience, so they want their kids to go to private school. The inverse is also true where parents who had a bad experience at X school would look at different options for their own kis. While I think that is a short sighted way of doing it both ways, I get where they are coming from. All parents want their kids to have a good school experience. I think schools need to do a better job of evening out the playing field and just having all schools be good. But like that is not really a hot take, just common sense.]]> 2023-04-27 18:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ethanhutchison3_1/ax1pkumiu0bk0niy/wish/2570816716