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My daughter got a teaching job!!

cooby Jul 28 2005 01:35 PM

Her first interview! It is in Wilmington DE. I am so excited, I can hardly work! Yancy, she is going to be living in that town in PA that I emailed you about a few weeks ago

Yancy Street Gang Jul 28 2005 01:40 PM

Cool. I'll be driving by that town a few times a week. Want me to check in on her?

cooby Jul 28 2005 01:40 PM

Yeah, at least honk your horn! :)

Edgy DC Jul 28 2005 01:46 PM

You can e-mail a town? I heard Dickshot used to be king of Wilmington.

cooby Jul 28 2005 01:53 PM

I emailed him ABOUT the town, sillyhead.

Edgy DC Jul 28 2005 01:55 PM

Congratulations to young Ms. Cooby.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 28 2005 01:56 PM

Yes, I am the (former) King of Wilmington. I also have friends who are teachers there. What skool?

cooby Jul 28 2005 01:58 PM

I don't know, we were both so excited she forgot to tell me and I forgot to ask! I do know it's a charter school

Yancy Street Gang Jul 28 2005 01:59 PM

You probably shouldn't post the name of the school here anyway.

cooby Jul 28 2005 02:01 PM

No, I'll tell Mr. D by PM when I find out.

ScarletKnight41 Jul 28 2005 02:20 PM

Mazel Tov to cooby jr.! I TOLD you this was meant to be :)

cooby Jul 28 2005 02:39 PM

I TOLD you this was meant to be :) Yeah, I shouldn't have been worrying about her...

seawolf17 Jul 28 2005 02:44 PM

Congrats to the Cooby family!

metirish Jul 28 2005 03:27 PM

Congrats, what subjects will she teach?

cooby Jul 28 2005 03:27 PM

Thanks everyone!

cooby Jul 28 2005 03:59 PM

metirish wrote: Congrats, what subjects will she teach? Sorry, I didn't see this for awhile... She will be an elementary school teacher

soupcan Aug 01 2005 11:56 AM

Great news. Congrats. As a parent with two kids in elementary school and a third a year away I will tell you that the elementary school industry is in dire need of young attractive female teachers. Hopefully young cooby's hiring addresses that need.

cooby Aug 01 2005 12:08 PM

She's all of the above. She starts August 8 and she is just a little petrified.

TheOldMole Aug 13 2005 09:31 PM

So...first week over...a report?

cooby Aug 13 2005 10:13 PM

Thanks for asking, that's very kind. :) I talked to her this evening, she sounded beat! This week was the first of two weeks of training/in service and she worked 53 hours. She has her room set up (it's going to be fifth grade) and she says the other teachers keep dropping by to admire it. She doesn't have a class list yet though so she is not sure if she will have to change the seating once school starts (Aug 22) Also she found out she will have a classroom aide, who was there last year, so that will be a lot of help to her. It's always nice to have another adult around just to exchange looks with, if nothing else....

TheOldMole Aug 14 2005 10:39 AM

My daughter, when she was student teaching seventh grade, invented a neat trick for teaching history - "Family Feud." Two groups of kids, the buzzer, questions like "What was the real cause of the First World War?" -- The assassination of the archduke? -- Survey says -- "No! Only one point!"

cooby Aug 14 2005 04:03 PM

The game show idea is always a good one! When my daughter was home on spring break, she lamented that the unit she was assigned to create and teach was on Matter and Energy. Whoa, big excitement there. The worse part was, the unit was worth about 50% of her student teaching grade. But in the space of an hour she had come up with a Power Point presentation for the kids to watch, a bunch of cute jingles, some fun experiments, and a game to play, and she was just getting started... (needless to say, she got a good grade!)