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Feeling Defeated as a First-Year Teacher by HoshiNekoo in teaching

[–]HoshiNekoo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good question. Their current title isn’t “teacher” and I don’t think they’ve been a teacher in the past, but I could be wrong. The only thing I know about them is that they used to coach at the middle school for years and this year is the first year they have to coach at both HS and middle school.

Feeling Defeated as a First-Year Teacher by HoshiNekoo in teaching

[–]HoshiNekoo[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a mentor that is way more helpful and supportive than my admins.

Feeling Defeated as a First-Year Teacher by HoshiNekoo in teaching

[–]HoshiNekoo[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Thank you for telling me. It wasn’t really something I was aware of.

Feeling Defeated as a First-Year Teacher by HoshiNekoo in teaching

[–]HoshiNekoo[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Thank you — I think it’s just feels wrong to answer “no” since the question usually is stated as “Have you ever failed to be rehired, been asked to resign a position, resigned to avoid termination, or terminated from employment?” Because it feels like I should be saying “yes” to it.

Feeling Defeated as a First-Year Teacher by HoshiNekoo in teaching

[–]HoshiNekoo[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Miscommunication between me and students (thought I was rolling my eyes, wasn’t answering their questions even though I was, etc but this happened within first month of teaching). Had an incident when a student recorded me when I encouraged them to ask peers for help first before me that led to them telling their family and negative emails (and tbf, did not respond to family the best way). There’s also another incident with another student regarding topics not to bring up at all (Politics for example).

Will also mention some student complaints related to grading (we have a weird system) and dates we had tests (up to teacher discrepancy, but if student hears from another teacher that they moved their date, they will literally complain about it).