Teacher's discussion webpage

peanuthead

Does anyone know of a discussion webpage solely for teachers?

Its not that I don't like boards.ie, I do. But I do feel that for teaching related advice, bar the exception of spurious there is no real discussion here.

I really don't mean to be offensive, but I love all things teacher and could talk about it all day. I'm also doing the PGDE at moment so having a very active forum to discuss things in would be great for me.

On a more serious note, there are some SEN students that I really do need help with. The average school wouldn't house as many of them as we do, and I feel the SEN component of the PGDE (Maynooth) is not enough for me.

Any suggestions? I will continue with my quest to find one and if I do, I'll report back

p

dambarude

It might be more applicable for primary teachers, but have you tried http://forum.educationposts.ie/ ? There's a secondary section AFAIK.

gwjones42

Hi Peanuthead,
I'd have to agree with the previous poster regarding educationposts.ie. It's good.......could be better.....but that's okay!

Might sound like a dumb question, but what's PGDE? I'm a primary teacher and don't have a clue!! Hopefully it's not something I should know!!

implausible

gwjones42 wrote: »

Might sound like a dumb question, but what's PGDE?

New name for the H.Dip - Post Graduate Diploma in Education.

rainbowtrout

peanuthead wrote: »

Does anyone know of a discussion webpage solely for teachers?

Its not that I don't like boards.ie, I do. But I do feel that for teaching related advice, bar the exception of spurious there is no real discussion here.

I really don't mean to be offensive, but I love all things teacher and could talk about it all day. I'm also doing the PGDE at moment so having a very active forum to discuss things in would be great for me.

On a more serious note, there are some SEN students that I really do need help with. The average school wouldn't house as many of them as we do, and I feel the SEN component of the PGDE (Maynooth) is not enough for me.

Any suggestions? I will continue with my quest to find one and if I do, I'll report back

p

There are a number of teachers here who contribute regularly, I'm one of them. And all the threads here have plenty of contributions by teachers. Why don't you create a thread if you have a particular problem and see what response you get? To be fair, I like my job and put a lot into it, but at the same time I don't want to talk about teaching 24 hours a day. Sometimes I just want to read random threads in After Hours

What exactly is the problem with your SEN students? Discipline? Resources? Subject matter that you are expected to teach them?

peanuthead

rainbowtrout wrote: »

There are a number of teachers here who contribute regularly, I'm one of them. And all the threads here have plenty of contributions by teachers. Why don't you create a thread if you have a particular problem and see what response you get? To be fair, I like my job and put a lot into it, but at the same time I don't want to talk about teaching 24 hours a day. Sometimes I just want to read random threads in After Hours

What exactly is the problem with your SEN students? Discipline? Resources? Subject matter that you are expected to teach them?

I completely understand that teachers don't want to spend all their days on these pages talking about their jobs. I expect that with 20 more years on the job I'll be the same!

But I have started up a few threads on this forum before with little or no answers, hence my looking for somewhere else.

Very few threads in this entire forum have more than 5 posts (with the exception of the snow day one!! lol ) so my point wasn't really that the teachers on here don't care, rather that the teachers are all maybe hanging out somewhere else.

About the SEN students - my problem in particular is ADHD. I have read a lot about it but I have one student in a mainstream class and I just can't seem to calm him down. The major issue being he has no medication due to the fact that he hasn't even been tested yet!!

implausible

rainbowtrout wrote: »

There are a number of teachers here who contribute regularly, I'm one of them.

me too!

peanuthead wrote: »

I completely understand that teachers don't want to spend all their days on these pages talking about their jobs. I expect that with 20 more years on the job I'll be the same!

About the SEN students - my problem in particular is ADHD. I have read a lot about it but I have one student in a mainstream class and I just can't seem to calm him down. The major issue being he has no medication due to the fact that he hasn't even been tested yet!!

I can assure you that I, and I don't think it's wrong to suggest most of the teachers on here, are NOT in the job 20 years:eek:

Have you spoken to the SEN co-ordinator in your school and asked for help? S/he should have more insight into the situation. If the student has not been assessed and is not considered SEN, then the school may have no provision made for him. If this is the case, then you cannot be the only other teacher having issues with him. Have you asked your colleagues how they deal with him?

If there is an SNA in the class already, can s/he be assigned to him as well? Have you tried moving him/isolating him? Is he easier to settle him in morning or afternoon classes?