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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopefully they cancel all ice breakers[/quote]

SDTs love to break the ice. Wish they would treat us as professionals. 🧊[/quote]

Do you think that professionals in every other office job *don't* have to do ice breaker activities at least once a year?[/quote]

Teaching is a second career for me. No, we never had ice breakers at my other jobs. Maybe a quick “my name is Larla, I’ve been working in the field for x years, and before this job I focused on blah blah blah with that other firm.” Now I have to talk about what super hero I am and what is my why. I have to fill out exit tickets at the end of meetings to share how I will use the information presented.

I also have to engage regularly with coworkers about my cultural background during cultural competency trainings. Trainings are important. Discussing my family traditions and times I have been discriminated against, on the fly with coworkers I’ve never met, when I have a pile of legally mandated paperwork that I’d really like to complete is not the best use of anyone’s time.

To answer the question, I DO look forward to meeting the kids and getting to know them. I DO look forward to collaborating with a few of my very creative and talented coworkers. [/quote]

1-2 ice breakers a year at preservice really isn’t that big of a deal to me. They’re all of 10 minutes and I think it’s disliked because of collective grumbling—like in college my friend hated a particular word and then suddenly all my friends talked about hating that word when they didn’t care before—maybe ice breakers only feel annoying because so many people complain about them.

I’ll be honest that I think the cultural
competency trainings are incredibly important. That teachers have the negative attitude towards it is part of why we need this training. Having been a first generation American myself, being an “other” is actually more isolating than you can imagine if that wasn’t you’re upbringing. And I am white and speak English well, so I didn’t even have as much discrimination as others. But teachers aren’t as culturally competent as they think they are and I’ve seen it over and over again. I wish teachers would take the cultural competency trainings more seriously, it might help them understand their students and help them learn better. 
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