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Teachers needed for SURVEY into child emotional intelligence

by Abby_Huang

Jan 5, 2023

Hello, l am looking for TEACHERS working with children aged 7 - 9 years old for my PhD in design. All l need is for you to complete a short 5-minute survey. As l need 300 people, your participation will mean the world to me!

https://lboro.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/perceptions-of-7-9-years-old-childrens-emotional-intelligence

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Advocating for increased teacher pay

by Rachel Krieger

Apr 22, 2018

Teacher salary and school funding is constantly a hot topic in this country. In some states and areas within states, schools are funded very well and teachers are paid a fair wage, but for the most part, this is not the case. Especially in Colorado, teachers are paid very unfairly as schools are stuffed with students and the cost of living is ever...See More

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Harassed By Principal

by justletmebe

Apr 17, 2018

I am a special ed teacher. I started in the middle of last school year after transferring from another district. Right away, I was concerned with ALL the special ed kids being removed from the inclusion classrooms about twice per week for tests and quizzes. The Gen Ed teachers I work with told me that I needed to remove them to read the tests to th...See MoreI am a special ed teacher. I started in the middle of last school year after transferring from another district. Right away, I was concerned with ALL the special ed kids being removed from the inclusion classrooms about twice per week for tests and quizzes. The Gen Ed teachers I work with told me that I needed to remove them to read the tests to them. After doing this for about a week, I finally got enough courage up to talk to my supervisor about this. Basically, I was concerned that this practice went against IDEA laws, specifically Least Restrictive Environment, which clearly states students should only be removed from inclusion classes if supplemental aids and services cannot be provided in class. My issue was these services could be provided in class - modified tests, clarify directions, even read test aloud if that was in their IEP. Plus, it totally osticized the kids and I felt bad. Long story short, director of special services got involved and made the practice immediately stop. My principal was on the "side" so to speak of the gen ed teachers.

Ever since, shes harassed me. She's written me up, given me baseless warnings, recorded me on the security cameras, made awful comments, etc. Her bosses have been pretty good to me. They wouldn't let her observe me alone, questioned why she didn't give me a 4 in certain areas when she co-observed me. They made it pretty clear to me that they thought her actions were out of line.

Then this happens: She was on email correspondence between a few colleagues and me. In my quick reply, I had a little grammatical error in my email. An hour after she got my email, she emailed the ENTIRE building about a "contest". She then made a hundred copies of a grammar worksheet and put it in every staff member's mailbox. The grammar worksheet was about the exact error contained in my email. She then offered to pay the first five people who completed it correctly $5. I was so hurt! I couldn't believe she would do something so outrageous. This woman is so sick! Talk about a role model for children. The union basically told me to get over it.

Now, the superintendent is involved in this mess. The principal has hid her face from me for the last week. I don't know if this is because she feels guilty or if its because she's getting some heat from central office.

How would you handle this if you were in such a toxic environment?

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Rate my teacher

by Kim KOch

Mar 16, 2012

It is one thing to have a rate my teacher site. It is another when the negative comments come up on the search engine site instead of only when the link is opened and the on-line site accessed. This means anyone typing in a personal name will see and read this before anything. The lies can be very damaging to a person's professional reputation. Fun...See More

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A professional principal does not care.. Any principal worth working for knows: Teens bash teachers because they failed the class, the teacher caught them with pot and reported it, the teens feel the teacher gives too much homework, etc. Just because a teen (or even many teens) bashed a teacher does NOT mean the teacher is weak and shouldn't be considered for a job.

Even if comm...See MoreAny principal worth working for knows: Teens bash teachers because they failed the class, the teacher caught them with pot and reported it, the teens feel the teacher gives too much homework, etc. Just because a teen (or even many teens) bashed a teacher does NOT mean the teacher is weak and shouldn't be considered for a job.

Even if comments seem like valid complaints about a teacher: This teacher speaks only Spanish in class and refuses to help us when we are lost--we are in Spanish I. The reader doesn't know anything about the poster or the classroom situation.. so they can't use the comments to judge a teacher.

If word got out that a principal used ratemyteacher to try to decide who or who not to hire or that a principal refused to hire a teacher due to comments on ratemyteacher s/he could be in legal trouble. Admittedly proving a principal was unduly influenced by ratemyteacher would be almost impossible, but still.. a decent principal wouldn't take the risk.

The posts on this topic do not make sense: Positive things are posted.. if someone says something positive. I've used the site to look up my parents (they are college professors), teachers in the schools I STed in--just to see the buzz-- my old teachers (high school and college) and my ex- boyfriend. I've also just read random comments there. Posts are listed in the order they were posted and many comments are positive-- my old Spanish teacher has dozens of posts from students and ex-students who loved her.

Your professional reputation can be ruined if you post either nasty comments or racy pictures on facebook-- but everyone knows that ratemyteacher is a site where anyone can vent about you. It's probably true some that students at the U of my state read the site and decide which teachers to try to take classes with or avoid--and MAYBE teachers or professors could get a negative impression of a teacher they work with based on the site. But it legally can not be used in deciding who to hire--and it very rarely has any affect in the hiring process. I would say that if a principal was considering interviewing/hiring you but changed his/her mind due to anything said on ratemyteacher, you dodged a bullet by not getting hired anyway! On 3/16/12, Kim KOch wrote: > It is one thing to have a rate my teacher site. It is > another when the negative comments come up on the search > engine site instead of only when the link is opened and the > on-line site accessed. This means anyone typing in a > personal name will see and read this before anything. The > lies can be very damaging to a person's professional > reputation. Funny how all the positive things from parents > and students are not posted at all let alone first.

Mar 17, 2012

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Anonymous Taught for less than a year nearly a decade ago, only person who appears when you google my name (thanks, mom), and very worried about job outcomes in my current field, in which people will not get sued for judging me based on what a pissed-off thirteen-year-old decided to say, especially because the petty comment was removed, but the poor ratings ...See More

Jan 6, 2017

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