Docent Puns

Hoi iedereen!

Ik (22M) zit op dit moment in de laatste fase van mijn Master algemene economie. Natuurlijk ben ik druk bezig met mijn carrièrekeuze. Mede door stages en gesprekken met vrienden, familie en kennissen heb ik al heel veel mogelijke beroepen weg kunnen strepen.

Ik heb altijd met heel veel plezier bijlessen gegeven en werken in het onderwijs is mede hierdoor altijd in mijn achterhoofd blijven hangen. Het helpt ook dat mijn moeder, die zelf docent is, altijd heeft gezegd dat ik een geboren leraar ben ;). Nu ik merk dat een standaard kantoorbaan mij misschien niet gelukkig gaat maken, overweeg ik serieus om als docent aan de slag te gaan.

Voor mij zou dit betekenen dat ik na mijn Master een eenjarige eerstegraads docentenopleiding aan de universiteit zou gaan volgen. Hierna kan ik aan de slag als economie docent in de bovenbouw HAVO/VWO en op het HBO.

Uit nieuwsgierigheid zou ik graag wat ervaringen van Reddit docenten horen. Het liefst economie docenten die ook in de bovenbouw of op het HBO lesgeven, maar docenten uit andere vakgebieden of uit de onderbouw zijn natuurlijk ook meer dan welkom!

Een aantal concrete vragen die ik op dit moment nog heb zijn:

• Ik lees en hoor overal dat de werkdruk voor docenten enorm is, en dat vooral veel jonge docenten snel weer uit het onderwijs weggaan. Hoe ervaren jullie dit? Ben je gek als je als vers afgestudeerde econoom alsnog in het onderwijs stapt?

• Het lesgeven lijkt me vooral enorm leuk en ik vind economie ook daadwerkelijk razend interessant. Is het mogelijk om deze "passie" vast te houden, ook als je ieder jaar dezelfde stof moet geven (of is het herkauwen van dezelfde stof sowieso een fabeltje?)?

• Is het mogelijk om originele lessen te geven waarin je bijvoorbeeld actualiteiten meeneemt, of is dit totaal onhaalbaar door de werkdruk?

• Wat zijn de doorgroeimogelijkheden? Zijn er, naast je vaste taken, dingen die je extra kunt oppakken als je na een aantal jaren lesgeven meer uitdaging wil zoeken?

• Arbeidsvoorwaarden. Beetje verwant aan de werkdruk, maar hoe veel uren maak je ongeveer? Klopt het dat je in vakanties ook veel bezig bent met het voorbereiden van lessen en andere werkzaamheden? Zijn jullie tevreden over je salaris?

• Mijn grootste "angst" is dat ik als docent in een sleur terechtkom waarbij ik steeds hetzelfde verhaaltje moet vertellen aan een andere groep. Ik ben vrij ambitieus en hou van persoonlijke ontwikkeling. Andere carrières die ik overweeg, zoals beleidsmedewerker

https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-museum-fires-apos-mostly-150838189.html

Hello everyone! I've decided to share my story with everyone here. When I was 30 I bought my very first house. It's a beautiful four bedroom, two bath with a fenced-in backyard and an inground pool. I love my home. I work crazy hours at a factory 12 hours a day 5 to 7 days a week. I saved up everything I could 4 just over seven years so I could have my forever home. The entire neighborhood is extremely friendly, and everyone looks out for one another. After about a year, I got to know just about everyone within a couple blocks from my place.

It was around this time when my neighbor came over and chatted with me for a good hour or so, when she had asked if it would be possible for her kids to come over and use the pool once in a while. And to be honest, I was completely fine with this. I was just happy that she had asked and was so polite about it. Plus I'd gotten to know her and her kids over the past year. They are very polite and they often offer to help if I was outside doing some yard work.

I told them they're free to use it when I'm at work because of my 12-hour days. Though every two weeks, I switch from days to nights. So I told her that as long as they don’t use it on days that I have to do nights because I'll be sleeping during the day. And as long as she asks and cleans up after they're done then I have no problem with it.

This worked out very well for about a month month-and-a-half. When a couple of the other families had started asking if their kids could use it. I was a little hesitant letting too many in my backyard at once. So we ended up all getting together to discuss. There were a total of 9 families with 12 children. We didn't have a public pool near us, so I had told them I really don't mind if anyone uses the pool, but I had a few rules that had to be followed. If they weren't followed for any reason, I would put a stop to them using the pool. My rules are as follows.

1. They could not come inside the house. that was strictly off limits. I have a lot of glass art in my house. I find it very beautiful, and it makes me very happy. The thought of people coming into my home, especially when I'm not there and with children around all this glass, worries me. If something bad happens, like if one of the kids knocks over something and were injured, it would be on me and I did not want that to happen. I had no intention of rearranging my whole house.
2. All kids had to be supervised by an adult. No one could come in alone. They could not le

See here (WSJ gated but quoted in full below) or here for an ungated summary:

>In museum-speak, a docent is a trained volunteer who greets visitors and guides them through the collection, filling in details of the artists’ lives, speaking to the visual elements of the work on display and adding art-history context. The Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of them active, until Veronica Stein, an executive director of learning and engagement, sent a Sept. 3 email canning all of them. In gratitude for their long, unpaid service—averaging 15 years each—the Art Institute offered the involuntarily retired guides a two-year free pass to the museum.
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>The apparent problem was that the Art Institute docents were mostly older white women of above-average financial means and with plenty of time on their hands. The institute needs to go to a more professional model, Ms. Stein explained, “in a way that allows community members of all income levels to participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not require financial flexibility.”
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>The museum’s docent program was established in 1961, an initiative of the Woman’s Board, a support group for the museum, and the Junior League of Chicago. For more than 60 years, crews of docent volunteers have introduced children, donors and museum members to the Art Institute’s holdings—which include classics such as Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” (1930) and Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” (1942).
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>“We were surprised, we were disappointed” by the sudden firing, said Gigi Vaffis, president of the docent council, in an interview with radio station WBEZ. “There is an army of very highly skilled docents that are willing and ready and able to continue with arts education.”
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>The Art Institute docents received rigorous training. In a Sept. 13 letter protesting their firing, the docents noted that each of them had “engaged in eighteen months of twice-a-week training to qualify as a docent, five years of continual research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas, and monthly and bi-weekly trainings to further educate ourselves with the materials, processes and cultural context” of the Art Institute’s collection.
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>“It was nearly a full-time job,” said Di

If you have, could you please share your experience? Thanks!

For paying subscribers, here's a place to discuss the latest premium episode.

https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/premium-episode-on-chicago-museum

Show Notes/Links:

Everything is getting cancelled except for us! It sucks.

• The Pumpkin Parade has been cancelled for reasons no one can explain.
• Christian Science Monitor on those Halloween-fearin’ Christians
• Museum administrators tell docents who make no cents to go get bent!
• It turns out The Cock Bar Shut down in 2005! Clearly Jesse’s timeline is off.
• And also it still exists? Pretty confusing.
• The Implosion of Boston’s Pride Parade Is a Sign of Things to Come.

https://www.wbez.org/stories/art-institute-of-chicago-ends-its-volunteer-docent-program/bb71f6da-5825-4d30-a47f-c334aac564a6

Veronica Stein, who is black and just recently hired, sent out the email to the docents letting them know they were being let go but the museum says the plan "had been in the works for 12 years".

https://www.foxnews.com/us/art-institute-of-chicago-fires-docents-diversity

The entire membership of the Art Institute of Chicago docent program, all volunteers, are being let go by the museum in an effort to entirely revamp how art education for museum visitors is staffed and to make such staffing more diverse. It is a move that has hurt long-time volunteers and angered right wing media, but many say it's the only way to dismantle a system that excludes too many from participating.

On Sept. 3, Veronica Stein, the AIC's executive director of learning and public engagement, emailed 82 active docents, telling them the program's current iteration would be coming to an end. Stein told the Wall Street Journal that the museum must move “in a way that allows community members of all income levels to participate, responds to issues of class and income equity, and does not require financial flexibility.” The AIC told USA TODAY that the pause is part of a “multi-year transition” to a “hybrid model that incorporates paid and volunteer educators." In the letter, Stein said the museum “had a responsibility to rebuild the volunteer educator program in a way that allows community members of all income levels to participate, responds to issues of equity, and does not require financial flexibility to participate.”

“Rather than refresh our current program, systems, and processes, we feel that now is the time to rebuild our program from the ground up,” she said in the letter, noting that current docents would be invited to apply for the paid positions.

While the elimination of docents struck many as sudden, it had actually been in the works for years, according to artnet news: The AIC stopped training new docents in 2012, and has been discussing internally how to restructure the program since 2019.

The institute's docent (volunteer) council sent a letter Sept. 13 protesting the pause of the program. The letter described the docents’ expertise, adding that they had trained twice a week for 18 months, done five years of research and writing, and participated in monthly and biweekly trainings.

“For more than 60 years, volunteer docents enthusiastically have devoted countless hours and personal resources to facilitate audience engagement in knowledgeable, relevant, and sensitive ways,” the letter said.

Gigi Va

Hey luitjes.

Ik zit nu in de 2de van het MBO en zit al goed te overwegen wat ik hierna wil gaan doen. Zelf lijkt geschiedenis docent worden erg leuk maar het enige wat ik lees is dat er vrijwel geen baan kans is, is dit zo? Zijn andere vakken zoals maatschappijleer meer gewild? Hoe ervaren anderen dit?