Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 11/23/2006 8:27:00 AM Author: Kathie Mitchell (Kmitchell@childcaredirectory.com) Subject: Annoying Teacher Do you by chance work at MINI SkooL? Just wondering. She sounds an awful lot like someone I worked with many years ago. (One of the reasons why I left). In our situation the centre was unionized so our options for dealing with this teacher were limited. She got away with all kinds of things and we too were basically told by management to just pacify her, it was truly exasperating. If you don't have support by upper management, it would be really hard to do anything about it. It was always easier for them to just sweep it under the carpet. I completely sympathize with your position and understand what you are going through. It is really hard to enforce anything when someone like that opposes and fights everything especially when we (Supervisors and teachers) are supposed to be there for the kids benefit no to babysit the teachers. I'd be really curious to know know if we are speaking of the same individual, because the teacher I experienced these same problems with was also a long time employee and worked with the Kindergarten children and was nothing more than a trouble maker. She once told me I had to respect her because she had worked for the company for so long, and I told her she had to earn my respect and I was her boss so she needed to be respectful. She gave problems to every director in the school. It is amazing how one individual can get away with so much for so long. I would rather lose a teacher like her than the many wonderful Director's that left probably largely because of her. Anyways, if you don't have the support of the upper management, it could be tricky especially if your unionized. You really need to get the upper management on board. Document everything for a period of time so that you have specific incidences to refer to. It also depends on how much you are willing to put up with. I know my state of mental health was 100% when I no longer needed to deal with her. ( I left after working there for 10 years to stay home with my son and start my own business). Name: Email: Subject

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