Northeast High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Teaching: more than what meets the eye Most peole think teaching is a 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. job with summer off. How ‘“‘cushy ’ can you get? Right? Well... Teachers don't have it as easy as students think. Not only do they have a longer school day than students, but they nearly always end up taking their work home with them to finish. Mrs. Jeanetta Echols, a social studies teacher, says she takes work home to com: plete almost every day. ‘It’s unavoidable,”’ Club and activity sponsors often put in long hours. Here Mrs. Carole Ford, yearbook adviser; Debbie Swift, yearbook editor; Richard Young, and other staff members literally worked all night to meet a yearbook deadline. 94 Faculty and Staff she said. “It's necessary to do this in order to be prepared for class and simply to be a ‘good teacher’.’’ She added that she isn't particularly happy about working at home, saying, ‘It takes away time that | could use with my family or my personal time, but there isn't enough time during the work-day to do my schoolwork.” Mrs Joyce Simonton, an English teacher, says she always has work to take home. She said, ‘‘! don't like the idea, but it On this particular day, Mrs. Joyce Simonton, an English teacher, took home a box full of “homework.” is a part of the job. We don’t have enough time at school to complete preparations for the next day, check tests, daily work, and homework. This is one of the ‘necessary evils’ of the profession if one expects to progress.” Although both teachers said they knew before they began teaching that they would have to take some work home; they just didn’t expect it to be so frequent and in such large quantities.

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Fifty-one percent of Northeast’s ad- ministration and faculty have advanced degrees, according to questionnaire com- pleted in early September. The advanced degrees, those requiring work beyond the basic four-year degree, are the doctorate, the specialist, and the master’s degrees. Dr. G, Milton Dunaway, Northeast Com- plex principal, has the only doctorate degree while Mr. Jesse Mays, assistant principal, and Ms. Emily Carey, science department head, have specialist's degrees. No fewer than 35 faculty members have master’s degrees. Dr. Dunaway commented on the impor- tance of advanced degrees in education. He said, “Continued professional prepara- tion is necessary for an educator to remain effective.” By the very nature of the profession, Most educators recognize the value of keeping up with their own studies, but there are at least two very practical reasons why a faculty member would com- plicate an already busy schedule with night school or summer school classes. One reason is pure ambition: the higher the degree, the better the pay and prestige. The other reason is pure survival: the teaching certificate (a license to teach in Georgia) must be renewed every five years with ten hours of study. A faculty member can get those hours at a university or in staff development credits. Of the remaining faculty members, 39 have bachelor's degrees and two have associate (two-year) degrees. Mrs. Kathy Wheeler — Magnet 9 and 10, Computer Introduction to Computer Mrs. Judith C. Whitaker — SED Mrs. Alice Williams — Lunchroom Mrs. Bernice Williams — Child Care Sgt. Gordon Williams — JROTC Mrs. Nettie Williams — Lunchroom Mrs. Karen Wood — Algebra 1, Math 9, Basic Math 9 Mr. Glynn E. Woolfolk — Drafting, Design Mr. G. Lewis Wright — English 12 (F), (H), English 9 (F), English 12 (I) Mrs. Juanita J. Wrye — Registrar (Was-Wry) Faculty and Staff 93

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YOU DON'T HAVE TO Bc CRAZY TO WORK HERE... BUT IT HELPS! J) -WTTTINT Terie x English department head, Mrs. Shirley Macklin was called upon recently to teach a staff development course. This required extra planning on her part. On days when teachers are in over their heads in paperwork and nothing seems to be going right, this could be their motto Coach Simmons, as well as any other coach, must put in extra hours to practice with his team. a » + Another necessary evil of teaching is the 20-minute lunch duty which leaves less than half an hour to eat. It's hard to find another job that has a lunch period of less than an hour, much less, less than thirty minutes. Facuty and Staff 95