This Teacher Just Plain Sucks...I'm Out!
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Yesterday, after taking a break from the fifth grade class I am teaching in, I decided to go back. I thought, maybe my cooperating teacher would have had a wonderful holiday and that she'd come back here with a fresh attitude. I thought, maybe she'll be nice to me and acknowledge me when I come into the classroom...maybe she won't be so cruel and unpleasable to thte children.
No such luck.
I've decided that she must be losing it, in all seriousness. Her teaching has taken a nose dive since the beginning of the year. I witnessed the worst literacy lesson I have ever seen in my own student experience and teacher experience.
Over 1 hour and 25 minutes, the kids took turns reading aloud. Four of them are in the ELL program. One of them is a strong reader that this teacher insists isn't. The rest reading below grade level for a total of 12.
She stood at the front of the room, stopping ever few lines to explain which reading strategies the students should be using and why and what the author meant by this and that. She should have been letting them use the damn strategies. She read directly from the teachers manual, not swaying from it once, and making sure that every single thing that was in the manual got discussed (they are freaking suggestions!). I don't think she noticed that she wasn't doing the activities on the right pages either!
So after 1 hour and 25 minutes, the class had successfully read 6 pages. 6! That's it! And they were read in broken english, soft voices, with incorrect words. The girl that is actually a strong reader was bored out of her mind and started daydreaming after about a half hour. So, she got yelled at a bunch of times and had to stay in for recess and read the stupid story again.
The story sucked, besides that. I had to struggle to stay awake. It was the worst teaching I have ever seen, seriously.
Another thing is that she gets pleasure out of the critisizing the kids. Here is only one of a zillion examples. If a kid needs their pencil sharpened, and asks her to sharpen it, she says loudly "Take initiative! You're not a baby. I'm not mama. (she really says mama!?) Do it. Take responsibility for yourself!" So, the next time the student needs to sharpen their pencil, they just do it, right? Not quite. Upon taking responsibility for themselves she yells, "Sit back down. I didn't say you could get up. You should have done that this morning. You're wasting everyones time."
Actually she is wasting everyone's time. She spends the majority of her time talking about the whys and the hows of learning instead of letting kids do it. The rest of her time is spent ridiculing the kids. I can't be with this teacher anymore. I grabbed all of my things when I left yesterday. I am talking to the head of the education department. It's not fair to me, the university, or future kids for me to be with this teacher.
I've had it. I have a pretty high tolerance for crap, but this is it. Thanks for reading my rant...
No such luck.
I've decided that she must be losing it, in all seriousness. Her teaching has taken a nose dive since the beginning of the year. I witnessed the worst literacy lesson I have ever seen in my own student experience and teacher experience.
Over 1 hour and 25 minutes, the kids took turns reading aloud. Four of them are in the ELL program. One of them is a strong reader that this teacher insists isn't. The rest reading below grade level for a total of 12.
She stood at the front of the room, stopping ever few lines to explain which reading strategies the students should be using and why and what the author meant by this and that. She should have been letting them use the damn strategies. She read directly from the teachers manual, not swaying from it once, and making sure that every single thing that was in the manual got discussed (they are freaking suggestions!). I don't think she noticed that she wasn't doing the activities on the right pages either!
So after 1 hour and 25 minutes, the class had successfully read 6 pages. 6! That's it! And they were read in broken english, soft voices, with incorrect words. The girl that is actually a strong reader was bored out of her mind and started daydreaming after about a half hour. So, she got yelled at a bunch of times and had to stay in for recess and read the stupid story again.
The story sucked, besides that. I had to struggle to stay awake. It was the worst teaching I have ever seen, seriously.
Another thing is that she gets pleasure out of the critisizing the kids. Here is only one of a zillion examples. If a kid needs their pencil sharpened, and asks her to sharpen it, she says loudly "Take initiative! You're not a baby. I'm not mama. (she really says mama!?) Do it. Take responsibility for yourself!" So, the next time the student needs to sharpen their pencil, they just do it, right? Not quite. Upon taking responsibility for themselves she yells, "Sit back down. I didn't say you could get up. You should have done that this morning. You're wasting everyones time."
Actually she is wasting everyone's time. She spends the majority of her time talking about the whys and the hows of learning instead of letting kids do it. The rest of her time is spent ridiculing the kids. I can't be with this teacher anymore. I grabbed all of my things when I left yesterday. I am talking to the head of the education department. It's not fair to me, the university, or future kids for me to be with this teacher.
I've had it. I have a pretty high tolerance for crap, but this is it. Thanks for reading my rant...
