Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 19:30     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
As hard is it may be to hear, OP, the Assistant Principal has a point. Nanny experience is not the same as teaching experience.

I agree with PPs that having nanny experience is more valuable than retail experience, but being a nanny is not like being a teacher and people in charge of hiring will be looking for candidates with teaching experience over nanny experience.

That said, OP, your strategy for gaining experience in schools and developing your skills in teaching will help you land a good teaching job.

Good luck to you.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 13:37     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
OP here. Thanks everyone! And I really like that list of stuff for the nanny! I have something similar on my resume.

I am also studying abroad where I will work with children in schools overseas. I have ample experience throughout the school year as well working with children.

I am not worried about experience.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 13:36     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
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Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.



You are wrong, Assistant Principal. You are looking through resumes and one applicant has extensive nanny/tutor experience while the other applicants have sales experience at the Gap and steaming milk experience at Starbucks and you don't think the summer nanny/tutor stands out? You are simply wrong.


+1

+2
I hope no one I know, attends that school.


With that assistant principal?

Correct.


Completely agree! OP don't listen. I think that will great on any resume for teaching!
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 13:25     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.



You are wrong, Assistant Principal. You are looking through resumes and one applicant has extensive nanny/tutor experience while the other applicants have sales experience at the Gap and steaming milk experience at Starbucks and you don't think the summer nanny/tutor stands out? You are simply wrong.


+1

+2
I hope no one I know, attends that school.


With that assistant principal?

Correct.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 13:17     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.



You are wrong, Assistant Principal. You are looking through resumes and one applicant has extensive nanny/tutor experience while the other applicants have sales experience at the Gap and steaming milk experience at Starbucks and you don't think the summer nanny/tutor stands out? You are simply wrong.


+1

+2
I hope no one I know, attends that school.


With that assistant principal?
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 12:55     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.



You are wrong, Assistant Principal. You are looking through resumes and one applicant has extensive nanny/tutor experience while the other applicants have sales experience at the Gap and steaming milk experience at Starbucks and you don't think the summer nanny/tutor stands out? You are simply wrong.


+1

+2
I hope no one I know, attends that school.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 12:36     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.



You are wrong, Assistant Principal. You are looking through resumes and one applicant has extensive nanny/tutor experience while the other applicants have sales experience at the Gap and steaming milk experience at Starbucks and you don't think the summer nanny/tutor stands out? You are simply wrong.


+1
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 12:18     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.

What's your annual gross?
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 07:22     Subject: Re:Another benefit of nannying!
PP again - I should add "all things being equal", of course. Nanny/tutor experience isn't going to get you far if you have crappy grades from a lesser college/university than the other applicants.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 07:17     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.



You are wrong, Assistant Principal. You are looking through resumes and one applicant has extensive nanny/tutor experience while the other applicants have sales experience at the Gap and steaming milk experience at Starbucks and you don't think the summer nanny/tutor stands out? You are simply wrong.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 00:04     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.


OP said she put the title as nanny/personal tutor.
Anonymous
Post 06/29/2014 00:03     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.


Why would we listen to you? You're just an assistant principal.
OP probably makes more than you.


+1
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 23:18     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.


Why would we listen to you? You're just an assistant principal.
OP probably makes more than you.
Anonymous
Post 06/28/2014 22:30     Subject: Another benefit of nannying!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nannying has not one thing in common with teaching. Please don't think this is giving you ANY useable experience.



I could not possibly disagree more! I was a teacher prior to becoming a nanny and a nanny while I was in college studying to be a teacher - both helped me and my charges ENORMOUSLY when I became a full time nanny. And being a part-time nanny helped me enormously when I was studying and working as an elementary school teacher.

PS Plus I can charge a boatload more as a nanny with teaching experience!!!


OP here. I have listed nanny/personal tutor on my resume and all professors that have looked at it have been very impressed.


Oh honey, you have so much to learn about life.


Really? So something like this:
• Promote physical, mental, and social development by implementing indoor and outdoor games and academic activities during the day
• Discuss children's academic and social progress with parents regularly
• Encourage interactive learning by incorporating educational software and the Internet, art activities, cooking activities, reading and field trips
• Create and teach engaging academic lessons and activities, adapting them to each child for their age and needs
• Select age-appropriate stories to read aloud during daily story time. Encourage children to read independently daily

Doesn't sound good to you as experience?


I promise you, when someone reads the heading "Nanny" they will not read any of the fluff you wrote below it. Even thought it is TECHNICALLY planning and executing field trips for social-emotional development, its not at all the kind of experience a principal is looking for and it carries no weight.

-signed an elementary school assistant principal MB from IL.