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Anyone else have a department head who doesn't speak French?

by ru

Sep 19, 2010

Are you expected to translate all of your teaching materials into English so he can examine them? It seems completely unreasonable to me but I was told the department head needs to know what is being taught and how it is being taught in my classroom. At my previous school the department head didn't speak French but did not have this requirement. As a new staff member I don't want to create a stir but this is essentially making my workload double that of the teachers of other subject areas.

Mme Sans Merci That is crazy. I have never been asked to do that. It is unreasonable, IMHO.

On 9/19/10, ru wrote: > Are you expected to translate all of your teaching > materials into English so he can examine them? It seems > completely unreasonable to me but I was told the department > head needs to know what is being taught and how it is b...See More

Oct 19, 2012

robert leabo On 10/19/12, Mme Sans Merci wrote: > That is crazy. I have never been asked to do that. It is > unreasonable, IMHO. > > On 9/19/10, ru wrote: >> Are you expected to translate all of your teaching >> materials into English so he can examine them? It seems >> completely unreasonable to me but I was told the department &g...See More

Dec 7, 2012

APBF There are many, way too many small schools or schools where foreign language is not very popular. In these schools, one will often have only one French teacher and or one Spanish teacher.

It is then very rare to have any other person in the school who comes close to speaking fluently a second language.

I believe it is an exceptio...See More

Dec 9, 2012

robert leabo Oh wow! My old Hs is now 3:1; 3 spanish teachers to 1 french teacher, but all the teachers are familiar w/ the other language. i hope i don't end up teaching in a school like that one day... where the dept is so small. i love languages! :(

On 12/09/12, APBF wrote: > There are many, way too many small schools or schools where foreign &g...See More

Dec 10, 2012

me On 12/10/12, robert leabo wrote: > Oh wow! My old Hs is now 3:1; 3 spanish teachers to 1 french teacher, > but all the teachers are familiar w/ the other language. i hope i don't > end up teaching in a school like that one day... where the dept is so > small. i love languages! :( > > On 12/09/12, APBF wrote: >> There are man...See MoreOn 12/10/12, robert leabo wrote: > Oh wow! My old Hs is now 3:1; 3 spanish teachers to 1 french teacher, > but all the teachers are familiar w/ the other language. i hope i don't > end up teaching in a school like that one day... where the dept is so > small. i love languages! :( > > On 12/09/12, APBF wrote: >> There are many, way too many small schools or schools where foreign >> language is not very popular. In these schools, one will often have >> only one French teacher and or one Spanish teacher. >> >> It is then very rare to have any other person in the school who comes >> close to speaking fluently a second language. >> >> I believe it is an exception to teach in a school where the >> administration speaks either French or Spanish to a point of being >> competent to evaluate a a foreign language class. >> >> Bien à vous, >> >> ABPF >> >> >> On 12/07/12, robert leabo wrote: >>> On 10/19/12, Mme Sans Merci wrote: >>>> That is crazy. I have never been asked to do that. It is >>>> unreasonable, IMHO. >>>> >>>> On 9/19/10, ru wrote: >>>>> Are you expected to translate all of your teaching >>>>> materials into English so he can examine them? It seems >>>>> completely unreasonable to me but I was told the department >>>>> head needs to know what is being taught and how it is being >>>>> taught in my classroom. At my previous school the >>>>> department head didn't speak French but did not have this >>>>> requirement. As a new staff member I don't want to create a >>>>> stir but this is essentially making my workload double that >>>>> of the teachers of other subject areas. >>> >>> >>> I agree. That's pretty much insane. And you say, "Department >>> head?" Is it a Department of Modern Languages? French Department? >>> or just Department of Humanities? If it's a French Department, >>> then I'm EXTREMELY disappointed that the head (top dog) doesn't >>> speak French. If he wants to know what is being taught and how, >>> he should just SHOW UP and observe the classroom. =D >>> le gay >>> Rob, teacher in the makin

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