I'm so annoyed. This is going to be a rant- and I want you guy's feed back to see if I'm in the wrong here.
So this past week I had to go to a local high school to "observe". I have to fill in a worksheet of different aspects of the day and watch a couple students, observe how they act without them knowing that I'm observing them of course. I had to interview the teacher and ask the questions that were in the packet. Since I am in school for secondary education- this is required in order to start taking the advanced education courses at my school. As a transfer student, I'm a tad behind so I had to squeeze this observation in before the new school year started.
So as you all know, this time of year is finals and marching practice for seniors and all that so it's a busy time of the year. Well, my college assigned me a 12th grade teacher. ( I requested 9-12 so they could've given me any teacher in the high school.) Okay, fine. You'd think they would've assigned me a teacher that wasn't ending in a week! I get into her class and she tells me that the entire week is going to be a workshop for the seniors to get all of their work in before their final exam. So what I've been observing this week Monday-Friday 8:00-2:30 are a bunch of seniors typing away on their laptops. Every once in awhile a student would speak to a classmate and the teacher would say something along the lines of "You have ___ assignments not done, if you talk again I'm giving you a detention!" or "Suzie, why are you talking you haven't handed in ____ yet?" So for me there wasn't a whole lot of "observing" to be had when this was literally the same thing every single day.
Part of this assignment I have to have the teacher assess me and turn it in with my portfolio. She hands me back my assessment today and I'm just so irritated reading it. She wrote that I wasn't "involved" enough with the students and that I didn't talk to her much that I was on my cell phone too much. (Maybe because your internet at your school is crap and the only way I could access my files were through my phone, I thought that was pretty evident when I was looking at my phone then writing things down, apparently not though.) Also, maybe I didn't talk to your students because anytime someone breathed too loudly you were yelling? Or maybe I didn't ask you more questions than the ones on the assigned packet because you complained every five seconds about how you had SO much work to do and I was being nice and letting you work? Or maybe I wasn't involved enough with you because all of your study halls you left me in your classroom ALONE while you went somewhere else (and yes, she did tell me to stay there while she went to a different class.)
I'm just so mad because she gave me horrible marks on my assessment including saying that she has "reserved feelings" about recommending that I stay in the education field. I have a thank you card all written up ready to go in the mail, but at this point I don't even want to send it.
Sorry this was SO long, but it's the summer and what else do we have to do:confused:
