Really upset with what was suppose to be a great job prospect
In short I was really tired of the day care center environment, so many things on that list but it ranged from abuse of both Children and teachers, disrespect of teachers, improper classroom ratio and a hyper focus on an accreditation process that does not determine the ability’s of a teacher. During pandemic I was temporarily laid off for about 7 months. I received a call asking if I could come back part time and even though I loved my children I decided it was time for me to make a change....turns out I should have just stayed at my old school.
I got offered and hired for a job at a Montessori school under a director who has just left due to her inability to direct and rudeness to staff and parents, as a teacher in an after school program turned all day due to Covid in which I would help and assist this children in their public schools classes and than plan after care activities, I was super excited to be introduced to Montessori method and a different age group being 6-12 years olds. Well turns out my current school made a mistake in hiring and hired me and another teacher for the same role. They residentially ended up giving the role to the other teacher as she had been hired a day or two before me. I told them I was upset about this and wanted to be on that classroom. They told me they needed me in the pre-k classroom at the moment so I asked for a compromise, I would be in the pre-K classroom from morning time and in the other classroom in afternoons. The director agreed.
So this is how it went for about one month. the new teacher, who was completely new to teaching needed help in the classroom so my old director decided to put us both together. But I still left during parts of the day and honestly had a lot of learning and catch up to do myself. However enrollment dropped when they didn’t properly inform the new teacher of several student who they had previously has behavioral issues with.
Now essentially this new teacher got on a bit of a high horse and believed she had control of the classroom and was the lead teacher (I don’t blame her, in fact we’re good friends) there are a lot of petty things she has done however like take my advice and claim it as her own. when I bought things for the kids and classroom, claiming she bought it and or not telling the kids and teachers it was me. I always inform the kids if they ask that we simply both contributed (we have smart kids no point in hiding it) school doesn’t give us money anyways. Constantly asking for my advice (even now) and passing it off as her own knowledge, and lastly not taking my lessons seriously and Or even incorporating them since...”I’m never in the class”. Meanwhile she pulls things from scholastics and other teachers instead of truly learning how to lesson plan.
one time she asked for advice on what to do in class, ignored what I told her and asked the director who came in and gave her the same advice...in front of me. :|. I’m not petty and only care because I know I put in work and am not getting recognized, lately she’s had a superior issue and I’ve been trying to politely knock her down by explaining we both accepted a position that’s not what we were told it would be..I have also been called lead teacher without pay in my previous school and I told her this would happen before she pushed so hard for the position. I told her they would only give her a name to keep it politically correct for parents and would not giver her pay, and now she is upset I’m not in the classroom anymore with her.
I’m upset because the new director although great had defined my role a bit more as they have now made me a “support teacher” I.e I’m no longer needed but they don’t want to lay me off...probably because they don’t want to pay my unemployment. They are telling me to go into classrooms so I can get the Montessori exposure but essentially just make me take care of the kids who don’t listen. Which is frustrating in itself. I’m also doing a lot of busy work and disturbing classrooms when I go in, since the kids do enjoy my presence but unfortunately associate me as a sub as opposed to a teacher. They won’t let me get my accreditation until a year when they previously had promised me two weeks under the old director than retracted that statement. The new director said she wouldn’t let me start my classes either. I simply started studying on my own but I don’t want to be at this school anymore. The current director knows this, and is trying to say I have a role when I really don’t...half the time they don’t even need me in the classes I’m literally a third teacher just to stand there or control the children who don’t listen. The only time they really need me is at 12 for a teacher break and at 4 for the kindergarten class as main teachers leave.
That kindergarten class is so disrespectful and honestly are very immature. Their main teachers complain and have meeting with the parents all the time and now the responsibility has fallen on me as well. In fact now the main teacher is trying to put a lot of their behaviors on me and this simply isn’t true. Often times I’m left alone with 15 kindergartens who don’t know how to act around adults in general and often fight each other or run around class. I Had started drawing things for them and let them color it in as it grabbed their attention but I was told to stop by my new director as it isn’t Montessori. (I’m working on the process of developing their emotional and social skills) but I didn’t sign up or interview for this. I’m bored and restless most of the day until I am highly stressed at the end of the day...their main teachers won’t even stay an hour or two because they said they would quit...yet I’m expected to handle these kids for an hour on my own. To work on my “class room management skills” the director apologized to me and stated sorry this is your introduction to Montessori as this school isn’t Montessori. I moved to this state because of this job and the high hopes I had for Montessori, I took on more bills than I should have in hopes that this would give me accreditation and better pay as well.
Submitted March 18, 2021 at 02:11PM by B_what_it_B https://ift.tt/2P47x4e
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