Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids August 25, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,701 |
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids August 25, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,701 |
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Cambion
I would feel a tiny bit more at ease if I had some other bag of meat in the library with me - dealing with kids is shitty enough, but doing it alone is freaking me out. And this is a public school district. Who should I speak to about being by myself? The principal? Administration?Quote
The library aides in my building shelve books, check out books for students, put labels on things, hang up decorations, etc.
This is what I thought I'd be doing... assisting, not running the library on my own. It's not assisting when the librarian is 20 miles away. And it seems that I would also be responsible for hashing out lesson plans with teachers if I need to. This is a lot to deal with at one time, especially for someone with no prior library or student experience.
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Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids August 25, 2015 | Registered: 10 years ago Posts: 480 |
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mrs. chinaski
I don't know if that's gonna help but here is my POV:
I don't like chyldren.
However, I once had to go to a camp as a instructor.
In the end, the chyldren voted for me as the best instructor
of the camp.
I simply talked to them and dealt with them as if they were adults.
No kiddy kiddy shit.
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids August 25, 2015 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,979 |
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evilchildlessbitch
If this is a school system job, I fail to see how you can be alone with kids 6 days a week. School is only in session M-F.
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By the way, in your situation Youtube is your friend. You can put on a lesson about using card catalogs, how to use them. After the video is over, you have them list on paper 5 things they remember from the video.
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As the school year progresses, you can email their respective teachers to find out what they are studying in class, and coordinate student research and lessons around that. Say they are studying how plants grow (5th grade), they can research books on plants, and anything related to the topic. You can facilitate their learning by showing them where those books are, and helping them to make good book choices.
Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids August 25, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,701 |
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Cambion
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evilchildlessbitch
If this is a school system job, I fail to see how you can be alone with kids 6 days a week. School is only in session M-F.
Their system confuses me too. It's not a six-day work week, but a seven-day system:
Monday = Day 1
Tuesday = Day 2
Wednesday = Day 3
Thursday = Day 4 (librarian is with me on this day)
Friday = Day 5
(next) Monday = Day 6
(next) Tuesday = Day 7
(next) Wednesday = Day 1 again
(repeat)
So Day 1 isn't always the same day of the week. As far as I know, I only work Monday to Friday. Plus, my schedule is all screwy - they told me yesterday I'd be in town tomorrow, but today they said I'd be out of town tomorrow. So I'm just going to have to ask where the hell I have to show up every single day since they don't even have their schedule in order yet.
Also, just as an aside, I had to attend school Monday to Saturday for a few months in the first grade because of so many snow days, so it happens.Quote
By the way, in your situation Youtube is your friend. You can put on a lesson about using card catalogs, how to use them. After the video is over, you have them list on paper 5 things they remember from the video.
I don't know if I'm allowed to use the computer or the projector or anything yet (beyond checking stuff out, I mean), nor do I know if YouTube is blocked by the school. I had to sign some kind of thing saying I would not access questionable websites, and if what my high school would block is any indication of how sensitive school online security is, I may not even have access to YouTube. The only time the teachers were in the library today was to pick up/drop off kids and after school officially let out. They had students waiting to be picked up in the library just kinda hanging out doing word puzzles. But during normal hours, the teachers were MIA.Quote
As the school year progresses, you can email their respective teachers to find out what they are studying in class, and coordinate student research and lessons around that. Say they are studying how plants grow (5th grade), they can research books on plants, and anything related to the topic. You can facilitate their learning by showing them where those books are, and helping them to make good book choices.
See this sounds a lot like what the librarian would be doing. Don't you need some kind of teaching or library experience to be able to do things like suggest age-appropriate books or figure out lessons? Certifications for this job (I clarified more than once) were optional - all they wanted to see was something beyond a high school diploma. No prior experience with students or library work, even. I even told the librarian I have zero experience with kids or school-related work and she didn't seem too phased. Could this be budget cuts at work? They can't afford to hire one librarian per school, so they stick the librarian at one school some days and make the assistants do the librarian's job the rest of the time?
Is there an official law/policy/whatever that specifically states in writing that assistants/aides are not allowed to be alone with students that I could present to the union rep? Something I can print out? Now you can see why I'm so stressed and pissed.
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Re: How to deal with child-centric job when you hate kids August 26, 2015 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 1,735 |
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Cambion
Only once in a while will the teachers themselves be in the library with the kids (during which time they will supervise the fuckers). The teachers just dump the kids in the library when they need a break from them.
Same with the librarian - no clue where the fuck she's gonna be if not in the library. I was told that I would be in charge of the kids a lot of the time, by myself. I will have no other help - the other library assistant they hired will be covering the morning shift while I have the second shift, and I was told nothing about older kids coming in because their library time is in the morning. I'm stuck with the youngest brats.
Welp, maybe if I let the little shits trash the library a few times, they'll learn to not leave me alone with them. Or better yet, maybe they'll fire me. I can only hope. I would honestly rather clean up a whole shelf of books a brat repeatedly knocks down all day long than have to actually interact with them and prevent said mess from happening.
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yurble
I just want to mention that a lot of charities these days do look for online volunteers. I know it wouldn't get you out of the house, but I think your mother won't allow that anyway. The thing is that it will allow you to acquire skills you can add to your resume.
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