Shannon Dube is currently the President of the ATA Local 48 and is also the Elementary Numeracy Coordinator for the Fort McMurray Public School Division. On part two of our conversation, Shannon and I discuss building relationships and being less awkward, the ‘excited to see you’ tool, setting boundaries, how things “grate on you” over time, what the most stressful part of teaching is, how parents have become more demanding, how it is hard to ‘on’ all the time, how students do still have a good side, teaching high school as a young teacher and handling the smaller age gap, the emotional labour of defending both your career choice and subject choice, how you are thrown into teaching overnight after university, irrational crying, how teachers end up teaching subjects nothing close to what they originally studied, the difficulties of making humanities courses hands-on, deciding on a masters program, how being an administrator seems as fun as stepping on rusty nails, helping teachers stand up for themselves, and, much more. Thank you for tuning in and hope you enjoy the show!
Thoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.
