(You probably won’t find these in a job description, though you should!)
– Hand-holder
– Zipper-fixer
– Tear-wiper
– Peace-maker
– Pants-buttoner
– Ball-retriever
– Nose-wiper
– First-aider
– Firm-talker
– Cheer-leader
– Toy-mender
– Toy-confiscator
– Mouth-wiper
– Rule-implementer
– Ice-provider
– Argument-settler
– Wrapper-opener
– Photo-taker
– Hallway-monitor
– Coat-zipper
– Skip-rope-holder
– Eat-your-vegetables-inflictor
– Band-Aid-administer
– Complaint-listener
– High-fiver
– Story-teller
– News-breaker
– Crime-solver
– Item-finder
– Dress-code-imposer
– Hand-shaker
– Parent-caller
– Skip-rope-detangler
– Confidence-builder
– Shoelace-tier
And finally, a personal ‘favourite’ (my office door faces the Pre-K to Grade 2 boys bathroom…)
– After-you-go-to-the-bathroom-please-make-sure-you-wash-your-hands…with-soap-enforcer.
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Ps. I wrote this over about two weeks, the Pre-K to Grade 2 teachers could double this list in a single day! The number one item at the top of this list should be:
– Teacher-appreciator!
Hilarious and too true!
Thanks for the last one (or the first one…) 🙂
Definitely a laugh! Thanks for sharing this.
The funny thing is, these are also the greatest things about being an Elementary School Principal. There is always something that makes me smile every day!
As I always say, It’s like being a “rockstar” in a boy band!
How I miss so many of these things…I automatcially started adding to the list…but I thought folks might like
Dodgeball target
Snow de-icer
hand warmer
bathroom duties need to be included…at all levels
coach
in Dave’s reference Talent Show Flunky (being jumped by a 10 year old on a BMX bike)not quite Rock Star Status until the recovery!
I will leave you with the most topical in my world these days…Environmental Champion!
Awesome list, I just wish we still had someone enforcing your last point at my school (and I teach in a high school!).
One much more sobering one though and I hope this is no one’s task but based on the experience we’ve had this last week at our school:
The-one-who-shoulders-the-load-when-things-go-awfully-terribly-fantastically-wrong.
Which is why principals have my respect for the jobs they do even if I don’t always agree with them.
.-= gmaccoll´s last blog ..Sometimes it’s just too much =-.
When you break them down like this it truly is amazing to see how much you do in the lives of children and students. What a great way to share more than just the formal roles of your position. Keep up the good work and thank-you.