Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 28, 2008 - 13:12.
Mark,
I started teaching in February of 2007, so I am just about to reach my first-year mark as a teacher and it has not been the best of experiences. I,too, got "thrown" into the job, but in a different kind of way. I graduated college in December of 2006 and got hired as a part-time ESL teacher in February. (I ended up picking up another part time job at another district which,together,made me full time) My situation is a little different though.
Because I only had a few kids at a time, class management wasn't an issue. I was thrown into a district without an ESL program and was hired as a teacher but am also expected to create the program/curriculum from the ground up-without a mentor, and without another person in the district who knows how to do my job. I had materials ordered in September (I was using free online materials up until then) and JUST recieved them this past month only to find that they did not make the complete order of the materials (Teacher's editions and resources) thus making the materials pretty much useless.
I also do not have a program director, so if I ever have a problem, I have to e-mail my boss who is also very busy, and, if I even get a response, it won't come for up to 2 weeks. I am trying to get through this year and I'm beginning to feel that I am going to have to find somewhere else to go because I feel far too underappreciated and I would like to be in a district where there are people I can go to that I know will be willing and able to help me when I need it.
Mark, I started teaching in
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 28, 2008 - 13:12.
Mark,
I started teaching in February of 2007, so I am just about to reach my first-year mark as a teacher and it has not been the best of experiences. I,too, got "thrown" into the job, but in a different kind of way. I graduated college in December of 2006 and got hired as a part-time ESL teacher in February. (I ended up picking up another part time job at another district which,together,made me full time) My situation is a little different though.
Because I only had a few kids at a time, class management wasn't an issue. I was thrown into a district without an ESL program and was hired as a teacher but am also expected to create the program/curriculum from the ground up-without a mentor, and without another person in the district who knows how to do my job. I had materials ordered in September (I was using free online materials up until then) and JUST recieved them this past month only to find that they did not make the complete order of the materials (Teacher's editions and resources) thus making the materials pretty much useless.
I also do not have a program director, so if I ever have a problem, I have to e-mail my boss who is also very busy, and, if I even get a response, it won't come for up to 2 weeks. I am trying to get through this year and I'm beginning to feel that I am going to have to find somewhere else to go because I feel far too underappreciated and I would like to be in a district where there are people I can go to that I know will be willing and able to help me when I need it.