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anxious about evaluation

by CymryGirl

Mar 22, 2015

I teach Pre-K in a school system in Georgia. This is my 9th year with this system, and I have always taught Pre-K except for one year with kindergarten. That year was the first year with the principal we have now, and she attempted to non-renew me then, but with help from PAGE I was "invited" back to teach Pre-K again, at a different school in the same system. Last year, they moved all the Pre-K classrooms back to my original school (they had been located at the various schools in the district before), so I was a bit anxious about working for this principal again. She does not seem to understand the concept of Pre-K sometimes and she had a problem with how loud and boisterous my classroom sometimes was. I have taught Pre-K for almost 15 years total, and I can tell you that sometimes (especially around Center Time) that 4-and-5-year-olds can get very boisterous in a very short time. She put me on a PDP in the Fall of last year, which I completed (and which was never signed for...See MoreI teach Pre-K in a school system in Georgia. This is my 9th year with this system, and I have always taught Pre-K except for one year with kindergarten. That year was the first year with the principal we have now, and she attempted to non-renew me then, but with help from PAGE I was "invited" back to teach Pre-K again, at a different school in the same system. Last year, they moved all the Pre-K classrooms back to my original school (they had been located at the various schools in the district before), so I was a bit anxious about working for this principal again. She does not seem to understand the concept of Pre-K sometimes and she had a problem with how loud and boisterous my classroom sometimes was. I have taught Pre-K for almost 15 years total, and I can tell you that sometimes (especially around Center Time) that 4-and-5-year-olds can get very boisterous in a very short time. She put me on a PDP in the Fall of last year, which I completed (and which was never signed for the last time because we never had the final meeting). This year, she has pretty much "left me alone" and given me good Walkthroughs and a good first Formative Assessment. Of course, for that one, the kids were all sitting quietly on the carpet listening to me do Large Group. This second time there was no time slot for when I do Large Group, so I opted instead for Small Group, which follows right after. She was late due to a "crisis." Had she been on time she would have seen an orderly transition to Small Group. The transition back to the carpet AFTER Small Group, however, was more chaotic and she told me to "count." I counted from 5 to 1, and they began to settle down. My mind was so preoccupied by her being in there with the kids up I "lost myself" there for a minute. After I got home on Friday she sent me an email that she could not get an "accurate view of what I know you can do as a veteran Pre-K teacher," that I was "too loud" and so were the kids, and that my room was so out-of-control it became "unsafe." She is planning on her or the assistant principal to come in sometime next week for an "extended observation." Our younger son (17) was diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma back in February and his hospital homebound teacher (different school district than mine) told me that administrators "have" to have a certain number of teachers on PDP's. I am beginning to wonder if she is going to do that to me again. Naturally, my brain immediately went to "oh, lordy, she's going to fire me." Can she do that, seeing this is my 9th year with the same district? I panic when something like this happens. Anyone have any advice?

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