Inflatable Penguins | Episode #10 - Thomas Wickens

Thomas Wickens is a Physics & Chemistry Teacher who has been in and out of the profession for over a decade. On part two of this episode, Wickens and I discuss inflatable penguins, if Humanities and Science Teachers should earn the same wage, his initial start as a Secondary Science Teacher, going into his first full year back and … right into Covid, recovering from Covid, staying in the classroom in the age of teacher shortages knowing he could take other higher paying jobs at any time, dealing with the productivity hangovers, finding quality PD, trying not to be the teachers we didn’t like as students, what it means to be too chill, the difference between your home self and your teacher self, if he would ever go into administration, and, then Tom turns the tables and asks me a series of questions to finish it off. Send us a textThoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.