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help with jealous colleague?

by kitty

Jan 5, 2017

Hi. I just recently retuned to teaching after taking off two years to be a family caregiver. I was hired as the second teacher (assistant teacher) in a private pre-school. The lead teacher is teaching her first year as a pre-k lead teacher. She made a point the first five minutes of meeting me to ask if I had my teaching credential, which I do and also have 12 years experience in my own classroom, 9 of which in kindergarten. Since then she has sown played and undermined my role in every way. The latest slight came over the holidays after the director had asked her to change her lunch schedule in order that I lead the students in a lesson before lunch. This was going very well, but the lead teacher was tremendously unhappy with me being a lead in any way. She redid the classroom schedule over break and used other teacher's names on the schedule but for my duties she only typed "assistant". This is just her latest example of undermining. I am really troubled by this as I have n...See More

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kitty On 1/07/17, from experience wrote: > It almost never works out to give someone an assistant that > either really knows more or thinks they know more than their > supervising teacher.---

Yes, good point. I don't claim to know more than her, but I do have some skills and tricks of the trade to add to the classroom learning environme...See More

Jan 8, 2017

kitty On 1/06/17, mrwiseman wrote: > I am going to play devils advocate, because we all know we > can't change another person's behavior only our own. > > Do you think there is a chance you are intimidating? Think > that you have admitted that you are giving her unsolicited > advice. Considering your experience it may come off as a >...See More

Jan 8, 2017

Flacka Don't be saddened - use this as a learning opportunity. When you return to teaching in your own room, with your own class, remember how you felt and be mindful about how you interact with subs, resource teachers, admin, etc. Make sure they feel welcome and equal, if that is the case. We see things very differently when we have a chance to walk in s...See More

Jan 8, 2017

mojo On 1/08/17, kitty wrote: > As for when I was a brand new > teacher, I taught kindergarten with a much more > experienced master teacher in my class everyday as we > rotated and did team teaching, so yeah, I had to do that > for quite a while, it's just the way teaching is and > sometimes it is very hard, but you can learn to be a ...See More

Jan 9, 2017

kitty On 1/09/17, mojo wrote: > On 1/08/17, kitty wrote: >> As for when I was a brand new >> teacher, I taught kindergarten with a much more >> experienced master teacher in my class everyday as we >> rotated and did team teaching, so yeah, I had to do that >> for quite a while, it's just the way teaching is and >> ...See More

Jan 12, 2017

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