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Re: experienced teacher needs advice
Posted by anon in ID on 3/30/08
Thank you so much. This is sound advice, and I appreciate you
taking the time to respond to a vague question. It is very helpful.
On 3/28/08, good luck! wrote:
> 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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