March 20, 2007
This morning I had barely walked in the door of the school when my team got called because a parent was waiting for us. Nobody said anything to us about a parent conference today so that was pretty frustrating. It was for a kid that I don't know very well, so I couldn't even come up with a good reason for us to be having a conference!THEN! Despite my having tons of crap to get done with my team, the principal informed us of a continuous improvement training we were supposed to be in during our team prep. We had no prior knowledge of this so we were all a bit frazzled. What bothered me even more is that we continue to go over the same stuff in all of theose trainings. It's like kill-and-drill for the teachers. I'm pretty sick of it. I'm also sick of the district mandating more and more shit that takes time away from my instruction time. And for some reason the district higher ups feel like this extra stuff is more important than content. Unfortunately, nobody ever asks a teacher before they're making decisions about education.
I have not been motivated to be at work lately (maybe it's because of all this continuous improvement crap that has nothing to do with my teaching or my content). I get here to work and immediately feel tired and lethargic. I don't want to work with the kids at all, nor do I actually want to teach them. Obviously this is not the attitude a teacher should have. Unfortunately I can't seem to pull myself out of this job funk that I'm in. I love teaching, but I am sick of the rest of the crap that I'm forced to be responsible for.
posted by lobo5747 @ 3:30 PM
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