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Re: experienced teacher needs advice
Posted by good luck! on 3/28/08
On 3/27/08, anon in ID wrote:
> This may be difficult to understand, but I am not willing
> to give details. My question is this: how does one deal
> with an extremely passive aggressive colleague? Perhaps you
> can generalize from situations you have been in that ring a
> bell. Thanks for all responses. I'm worn out with this.
It's hard and perhaps especially hard without details. In short, I avoid them and
others with issues whenever possible. Understand that schools are strange
places and teachers can be too and often schools bring out the worst in
teachers. There's so much jockeying for power that goes among teachers and a
lot of that's because there really isn't much power to be had. Some teachers
spend their entire careers in the same building and there's a very low ceiling for
advancement in teaching.
so a pecking order builds. I'd say that's the root cause of all negative
interactions between teachers and passive agressive behavior is but one
behavior that can emerge. The ones who dominate the faculty meetings going
on and on about nothing. The ones who live in outrage at the kids about
nothing. The ones who take easy offense to nothing. I find you can't approach them and have a rational discussion - they live in their
own heads and will fly off their own handles if you try to talk with them or open
a dialogue. I smile warmly at everyone, say nothing controversial to anyone and
then I can fly under the radar of all of them who are passive agressive etc. Good luck.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- experienced teacher needs advice, 3/27/08, by anon in ID.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 3/28/08, by good luck!.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 3/30/08, by anon in ID.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 4/27/08, by jillp.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/05/08, by My advice.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/15/08, by suzy.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/19/08, by good luck.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/25/08, by from OP.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/28/08, by laurie.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/28/08, by suzy.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/28/08, by suzy.
- Re: experienced teacher needs advice, 5/28/08, by from OP.
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