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: 3/3/2007 4:05:00 PM Author: Chrissy (mamick@jaxnet.net) Subject: Dear Help -- I've been in your shoes too. I also HAD an employee like that - she had been with the program years and years. I inherited her. Firing her was out of the question. There were parents on the Board who just loved her although they didn't fully know how her classroom ran. That changed when I had the parents sit in and monitor the class. She didn't like doing anything new. Any type of change was unacceptable. The children's art and crafts were all "embellished" by her. Very cookie cutter like. I re-vamped the program and added things into the curriculum - goals and objectives to go along with the themes. She continued to do her own thing. Finally, she quit because I was expecting too much of her (to prepare a lesson, write a simple plan, and work in centers she couldn't do all of that AND do the children's art. She also had a tendency to complain and gripe about anything. If a child was difficult or having a bad day it was "hell" for the rest of the staff. Her negativity was bringing everybody down. I know I've rambled -- but... I've been there. YOU WILL GET THROUGH IT. YOU WILL BE BETTER FOR IT. YOUR PROGRAM AND YOUR KIDS WILL BE BETTER. Christine -- you've said a mouthful. DOCUMENT, DOCUMENT, DOCUMENT. Name: Email: Subject

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