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I complained to the office last week after a teacher left me very vague lesson plans with no page numbers. I basically had to ask the kids where they left off. I shouldn't have to be scrambling like this 10 minutes before class starts. She posted the job the night before, so it's not like it was a last-minute thing.

The principal was understanding and said she would have a discussion with her. She may not request me again, (i can live with that) but let's hope she learns her lesson and that no one else is a victim of her laziness/sloppiness.

Any one else ever complain about the teacher she/he subbed for?
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pixie Sorry for the blank post. I don't know if it just my
computer but when I start to type pixie in the name box
the cursor jumps down. When I move it back up and type
pixie and try to move down to the text box, it posts a
blank message. Anyway, I wanted to thank Ze for
responding. My current school district uses a different
automated...See More
May 4, 2015
BJ I got two complaints, both from the same staffing agency, one being I didn't follow the lesson plan (read the Bard with low- level classes for 80 plus minutes) The other said that I complained about the lesson plan. That same assignment I recommended a great book on teaching English language learners and the teacher felt I was insulting her. So bas...See More
May 4, 2015
pixie BJ, I feel for you. It sounds like the teacher was being
overly defensive and took it out on you. Reading
Shakespeare with low- level classes for 80 minuted does
not sound like a good lesson plan to me. A lesson plan
like that puts us in a bind because we are supposed to
implement whatever the teacher says, but it is not
conducive...See More
May 5, 2015
BJ The two classes weren't too bad, but you can't expect a class of 17 year olds to follow along for 80 minutes or so; it's just not a recipe for success. My issue is this staffing company never backs me up. It's a familiar pattern: complaint, they call, you get your say, but the complaint stands however valid or invalid. Nothing you say makes a diffe...See More
May 5, 2015
Ze Povinho In the district that I had to leave 3 years ago, I was also put in situations where the lesson plans were completely nonsensical.

In one school, I had to show what a teacher called an "educational video" to his shop class. It was showing "The Scorpion King" (yes, the one featuring The Rock), or another like Saturday Nig...See More
May 5, 2015


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