[Amelia]

I'm not happy with the core courses I'm force to take - a lot of impractical psychobabble, with heavy doses of "diversity" and "belonging".

Very few of them are practical. Some are less so than others. The best training is when you visit classrooms and during student teaching. Hopefully you'll get a good mentor.

Here's some advice that has nothing to do with classroom management: Good comfortable shoes are worth any cost. ;-)

I'm wondering, is there a ping list for teacher's issues here on FR?

Summer had one at one time. I'm not sure if there's another or not.

[summer]

Re teacher's ping list - Actually, no, I never had one just for teachers. A lot of teachers were following the FL Gov race when I was posting a great deal of education information about Gov Jeb Bush, so, I guess it appeared as if I had a teacher ping list. That would be a good project though, because I discovered there are certainly quite a few teachers and college professors here on FR - far more than one might guess.