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Post by 50slantstrong on May 6, 2017 19:08:59 GMT -6
Schools get assessed on their math scores. If the admin wants to tenure that guy or not move him to ALC babysitting or give him freshman pre algebra repeat, that's a reflection on them as much as it is the teacher. 1- my SS class is assessed by a state test 2- the SS HS end of course state test is the single toughest EOC our state has, some say that it is harder than AP USH 3- that math teacher has decent scores If California ever gets to that point that it has standardized SS tests then yes SS teachers here should be assessed the same way other core subject teachers are.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 6, 2017 19:03:29 GMT -6
Schools get assessed on their math scores. If the admin wants to tenure that guy or not move him to ALC babysitting or give him freshman pre algebra repeat, that's a reflection on them as much as it is the teacher. But you still didn't answer the question about why PE and social studies teachers shouldn't get tenure. Incidentally, do you have tenure? I didn't say they shouldn't get tenure. I said they should be evaluated on things beyond how well their lessons work. There's no standardized social science test in California. Why are administrators assessing me the same way they assess math and English teachers? Judge me based on how much I'm involved with school social culture and how well I immerse students with that. Isn't that what social[/] studies is?
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 6, 2017 11:37:31 GMT -6
I like it and completely agree. I know it's unrealistic but I also think they should go through a different tenure process for PE and social studies spots. No way someobody should teach either of those subjects who doesn't do extracurricular stuff for the school. But the math teacher at my school that rolls in the door at the first bell and that is knocking kids down in the hallway to get to the parking lot at the last bell, is golden........ Schools get assessed on their math scores. If the admin wants to tenure that guy or not move him to ALC babysitting or give him freshman pre algebra repeat, that's a reflection on them as much as it is the teacher.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 6, 2017 8:44:05 GMT -6
I like it and completely agree.
I know it's unrealistic but I also think they should go through a different tenure process for PE and social studies spots. No way someobody should teach either of those subjects who doesn't do extracurricular stuff for the school.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 4, 2017 22:18:56 GMT -6
You ever met one of those simpletons who think coaches who teach just sit at their desk and play movies for their class everyday? Or the ones who think people associated with athletics are ignorant? A lot of them get into admin, become school board members, and district personnel management in California. Not all districts of course but it's more common than it should be. Source - I'm in the process of trying to find a new teaching job and research the people I'm going to be interviewing with. good points i've met a lot of people working in education... who you can just tell got picked on by "jocks" in HS... and now try to take it out on "jocks" now Yes. Same a holes who give our athletes bad grades simply because they're athletes.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 4, 2017 22:03:48 GMT -6
It was sarcasm. But not far removed from the truth in some districts... How? You ever met one of those simpletons who think coaches who teach just sit at their desk and play movies for their class everyday? Or the ones who think people associated with athletics are ignorant? A lot of them get into admin, become school board members, and district personnel management in California. Not all districts of course but it's more common than it should be. Source - I'm in the process of trying to find a new teaching job and research the people I'm going to be interviewing with.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 4, 2017 10:56:57 GMT -6
I'm pretty sure here in California the law is that the district requires its coaches make a living doing anything but work at the school/district they coach for. i cant tell if you are being sarcastic or you seriously mean that It was sarcasm. But not far removed from the truth in some districts...
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 4, 2017 8:27:24 GMT -6
I'm pretty sure here in California the law is that the district requires its coaches make a living doing anything but work at the school/district they coach for.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 2, 2017 8:55:14 GMT -6
Honestly, as soon as we get tapes, I start entering the data into hudl. Not that I'm looking ahead, I just know my Saturday and Sunday are already going to be filled to the brim with other things and that much less work will make it easier.
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Post by 50slantstrong on May 1, 2017 20:52:52 GMT -6
Kids who blame the sub for losing their work. I have a student with a solid F and he and his mom are trying to tell the school he handed a quarter's worth of missing work to a sub I needed last week and that the sub lost it.
Idiot mom believes her slapjack son. Counselor insists I need to follow up with sub. Hasn't happened yet but knowing my admin, they will make us have a parent teacher conference and make me come up with a plan to pass the kid.
Why can't I put my focus and energy into kids who care with parents who aren't complete morons?
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 27, 2017 21:55:36 GMT -6
Like any other sport, it boils down to the quality of coaching the kids are getting in that other sport. I know the throwers coach where I coach now does gross motor movements and explosive lifts with dynamic stretching to prep his throwers. When they come back to spring football after track is over, they're ready to snap necks and cash checks on the football field. At the same time, the last school I coached at had a thrower (and sprinter) coach who sat in the corner of the weight room and played on his phone while his athletes were horsing around. And when the season was over, the football players came to us looking like they just got done pledging at Delta Tau Chi
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 26, 2017 5:59:30 GMT -6
Kids that hide behind their parents. They're not enough of an adult to talk to me about their grade and they know why they're failing (pure laziness). instead of doing something about it it's more convenient to tell their parents they don't know why they're failing and I have to sit in a parent teacher conference and tell them to their face in front of their parents that they're lazy. And then the admin keeps the ball in my court and tells the parents I should've been making calls home. Screw that. If little johnny can't open his textbook and write the definition to five words in a 50 minute class period then it should be a serious academic intervention issue not a "the teachers aren't doing enough to help your son issue".
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 25, 2017 20:54:28 GMT -6
We'll have a practice once a summer in which we spontaneously break out into a water balloon fight. Offense vs defense. We'll only let a few captains know beforehand. We tell them what segment and during water break the coaches will grab coolers filled with water balloons. Players never notice. After said water break it'll be 11 vs 11 and after the first play the captains know it's on and after a few seconds it turns into a balloon blood bath. Coaches get into it too.
We'll purposely do it fourth or fifth week of summer ball when practice has gotten monotonous and the temperature is 100+.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 9, 2017 22:22:52 GMT -6
Typically we'll meet at 9.
We spend the first few minutes talking about college football from the day before. Just shooting the bull. Some other coaches show up later because of things like church. 9:30-12 is usually where we type up scripts for the week. Then we'll spend 45 or so eating lunch. Another coach's mom is Sicilian and she'll bring in some authentic cuisine it's excellent. From 1-4ish we'll go through each formation the opponent runs and come up with edit the call sheet based on their tendencies from each. Early in the season this can be a quick process, week 10 not so much. From there we finalize the scouting report and reconnect with the offensive staff. We'll leave around 6ish. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't nights we've left around 9 of later.
Honestly I think we could finish earlier if we applied ourselves. I'm just as guilty as anyone but I feel we spin our wheels a lot with horse play and chalk wars.
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"Family"
Apr 9, 2017 21:52:27 GMT -6
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 9, 2017 21:52:27 GMT -6
Activities outside of football.
I don't know if you're at a public school, but if you're at a parochial, faith-based things really turned our teams into a family when I coached at a parochial and played at one.
Community service activities. A friend of mine who coaches at a nearby school swears by it.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Apr 5, 2017 12:27:51 GMT -6
I personally prefer google drive over Microsoft but to each their own.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 28, 2017 8:41:38 GMT -6
I'm an assistant coach at a mid-sized (2200) school in California.
Monday and Tuesday I'll be doing something football related from about 3-6:30 plus about two hours a day doing something on hudl, drawing cards, scripts, etc. 11 hours Wednesday is the same amount of hours except we have evening practice. Another 5.5 hours. Thursday I might spend an hour or two watching film or entering data into hudl. Nothing after school. HC and DC finish the walk through before I can make it out there. This is what my wife knows as our family day. Before the kids it was date night LOL. 2 hours. Friday I might watch two hours of film at work then I'm enamored in something football related from 3-9. 8 hours. Saturday I try to get up rooster crowing early to grade our tape, enter in data and get my stuff prepped for Sunday. On a good Saturday (translation: I didn't "celebrate" or "drown my sorrows" after the game the night before) I can crank it out in 6 hours. Sunday we go from about 10-5ish (depending on the time of season and opponent). 8 hours.
It comes out to 41.5 hours for me.
This doesn't account for the days in which I throw in a movie for my class and sit at my desk and watch film for 6 periods. I don't do that all the time, but there are weeks in which I have to, typically 3 or 4 times per season. There are also Saturdays in which I take longer and Sundays in which we have to go longer.
My HC works slightly more hours. He has two periods of football during the school day, plus all the booster club and parent mumbo jumbo he has to deal with on top of managing coaches (not just the player). As screwed up as it sounds, and through no fault of his own, he actually works more hours and does less football stuff than most of the other coaches. Such is the life of a HC I suppose.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Mar 23, 2017 23:05:10 GMT -6
2000-2500 students in California.
A few of our guys run track and throw but that's about it. Our school, unfortunately, does not have wrestling. The baseball, basketball and soccer teams are all filled with guys who play club or travel and specialize in their sport. I think we had one guy on the basketball team and one guy on the baseball team. That's normal every year. For better or for worse, playing one sport is pretty much the culture at the school.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 25, 2017 17:23:03 GMT -6
I really liked the Azusa Pacific DC. Good speaker, very clear and specific. Every drill he showed, he also showed it showing up in a game.
I really wanted to see Dan Pippin (Greenwood, SC) and James Vondra (Quartz Hill, CA) but got sidetracked. Did anybody get to see them?
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 17, 2017 21:39:38 GMT -6
Get into coaching podcasts.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 17, 2017 10:48:49 GMT -6
Waiting all month to watch a webinar/e-clinic on a topic you wanted to learn more about, only to watch the speaker spend the first 30 minutes talking about his program's accomplishments, program's philosophy, and how competitive the game is where he coaches. Then he spends the last 30 minutes going over bare base stuff you already know about.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 17, 2017 10:15:12 GMT -6
Every year I tell myself I'm not going to bother watching it, but like clockwork the next day I'm watching it.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 14, 2017 10:37:12 GMT -6
Yes. I retweeted it the second I saw it
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 14, 2017 10:35:54 GMT -6
I would say take the bye week 10 simply just because it'll probably be impossible to get a week 10 non conference/league if your region is anything like ours.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 14, 2017 10:33:53 GMT -6
In 2014 the team I coached was good except we lost the league title game in overtime and as a result we would have to play a league champion in the first round of the playoffs. We ended up drawing the school that had been ranked #1 in the division most of the year. Tough draw right?
We were in our Sunday film session watching their week 10 game as a staff. Not even 15 plays in, this team is every bit as advertised. QB who ended up going to USC, offensive line firing off the ball, all 11 defenders in the frame when a tackle is made, etc. Another coach blurts out "these guys ain't ish. This division ain't ish. This ring is ours." He would tell his position group stuff like that all the time.
Needless to say, we ended up losing and by January we'd posted a help wanted for a new coach at his position LOL
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 12, 2017 23:37:18 GMT -6
A former assistant I worked with once told me "we never got concussions back in the day because we had stronger necks than kids these days".
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 12, 2017 17:50:47 GMT -6
I think that's the best way to go. The longer I work in education the more I believe kids learn by physically doing, more so than listening or seeing.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 12, 2017 0:05:56 GMT -6
-Coaches who harp on the kids to play hard, and then lose their minds when one gets flagged for an aggressive penalty.
-Coaches who scream "catch the ball" after a drop without correcting flaw in the player's technique. Same goes to coaches screaming about players missing tackles and blocks.
If I'm ever a head coach, these literally might be the first things I address in my first staff meeting.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 9, 2017 23:20:25 GMT -6
Great thread topic. Can't believe I missed it last week. 7 on 7 clubs. There is a local 7-7 club that hand picks elite talent (kids that are going to UCLA, USC, etc) from the two counties my metro area encompasses. Their coach goes around gloating that he developed all of his players and he's the reason they're successful. Parents of lesser talented kids are ready to sign over a house payment to him because they believe he'll turn their kids into the next Southern California first round draft pick. There are several other clubs in the area whom are equally as deceitful. I have one more thing that makes me rage but it's extremely uncommon. A guy I work with is a former assistant coach who coached a couple of local underachieving schools. He tells me at least once a week he'd love to coach again but the programs in the area aren't run the way programs should be run. He also tells me he deserves to be a defensive coordinator and he can shut down any offense with his defense. I know this isn't a common rager for most people but it is for me and my personal day to day life because I have to listen to him everyday. I can't stand guys like that! Lots of expert pop warner coaches in my area. Not bashing on pop warner coaches, but the ones I come across are a bit nuts. Next time that guy talks like that, ask him why he doesn't take over a program and run it the right way. Ask him how he would defend a wing-t one week, a fly offense the next, a pro-style the next, and a spread RPO offense the next. What are his thoughts on hawk tackling and how the head is being taken out of the game. Whenever I ask these types of questions, I get blank stares and never see or hear from those guys ever again. Do that and I bet he stays away from you at work. But rest assured, he'll still tell everyone that you don't know jack. He's actually friendly with me I don't even get to the point where I make him think I'm questioning his "expertise". No lie - about an hour after I made my original post he made a comment to me that he turned down an offer to coach because he heard the OC at the school ran a single wing and single wing teams never win state titles these days. Anyway, I think my approach is best - in one ear, out the other and post the funny stuff in this thread.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 9, 2017 10:47:34 GMT -6
Great thread topic. Can't believe I missed it last week.
7 on 7 clubs. There is a local 7-7 club that hand picks elite talent (kids that are going to UCLA, USC, etc) from the two counties my metro area encompasses. Their coach goes around gloating that he developed all of his players and he's the reason they're successful. Parents of lesser talented kids are ready to sign over a house payment to him because they believe he'll turn their kids into the next Southern California first round draft pick. There are several other clubs in the area whom are equally as deceitful.
I have one more thing that makes me rage but it's extremely uncommon. A guy I work with is a former assistant coach who coached a couple of local underachieving schools. He tells me at least once a week he'd love to coach again but the programs in the area aren't run the way programs should be run. He also tells me he deserves to be a defensive coordinator and he can shut down any offense with his defense. I know this isn't a common rager for most people but it is for me and my personal day to day life because I have to listen to him everyday.
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