ladykemma
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well today was my first day back.
over the summer i attended summer school to improve my spanish, and a bunch of little professional developments, the stuff you have to go to.
i also went to a 8 hour mandatory ESL thing, which was a complete waste of time. poorly prepared, poorly delivered. the afternoon was wasted on reviewing a curriculum that I don't teach. I and another teacher (algebra) asked politely if we could leave. they said no.
so I sat there and was quite angry for 4 hours of the afternoon. I wrote a brutal, honest course evaluation, saying that they had "wasted 8 hours of my precious summer vacation" and gave them some constructive criticism on the lack of preparation and the chemistry teacher does not need to look over the new 5th grade books.
i forgot about it and moved on with my summer.
fast forward to today. I arrived at school, hunted down my supervisor to say hello. first words out of her mouth were, so, how were the esl classes this summer. I raved enthusiastically and went on about the spanish class. She said, No, i mean the esl class. huh? Oh, thaaaat one. Told her my opinion on it.
apparently the organizer went and found my supervisor, and said: Is kemma happy teaching ESL? Some things that I had said concerned her....
I said where is this coming from? yes I am very happy teaching ESL to the point of spending my entire summer in summer school to get better at it.
my boss said that this lady was very well connected and that i had pissed off a high muckety muck. heck, I didn't know who she was.
I replied, well, it sounds like SHE is not happy with ME teaching ESL.
now my boss is looking at me sideways and I am feeling icky vibes from her.
I feel confused and betrayed at the supposed confidential course evaluations. I feel fear that my boss has a wrong impression of me.
opinions and advice please?
i know I have left stuff out so i will come and add as I remember details.
over the summer i attended summer school to improve my spanish, and a bunch of little professional developments, the stuff you have to go to.
i also went to a 8 hour mandatory ESL thing, which was a complete waste of time. poorly prepared, poorly delivered. the afternoon was wasted on reviewing a curriculum that I don't teach. I and another teacher (algebra) asked politely if we could leave. they said no.
so I sat there and was quite angry for 4 hours of the afternoon. I wrote a brutal, honest course evaluation, saying that they had "wasted 8 hours of my precious summer vacation" and gave them some constructive criticism on the lack of preparation and the chemistry teacher does not need to look over the new 5th grade books.
i forgot about it and moved on with my summer.
fast forward to today. I arrived at school, hunted down my supervisor to say hello. first words out of her mouth were, so, how were the esl classes this summer. I raved enthusiastically and went on about the spanish class. She said, No, i mean the esl class. huh? Oh, thaaaat one. Told her my opinion on it.
apparently the organizer went and found my supervisor, and said: Is kemma happy teaching ESL? Some things that I had said concerned her....
I said where is this coming from? yes I am very happy teaching ESL to the point of spending my entire summer in summer school to get better at it.
my boss said that this lady was very well connected and that i had pissed off a high muckety muck. heck, I didn't know who she was.
I replied, well, it sounds like SHE is not happy with ME teaching ESL.
now my boss is looking at me sideways and I am feeling icky vibes from her.
I feel confused and betrayed at the supposed confidential course evaluations. I feel fear that my boss has a wrong impression of me.
opinions and advice please?
i know I have left stuff out so i will come and add as I remember details.