New teachers, especially teachers from alternative certification programs, have all sorts of stories about people who observe and supervise their training and work.
There is the guy whose district bought laptops for every high school student and insisted teachers use the computers daily, but whose principal refused to look at the on-line courses he had developed to meet the district’s guidelines (and whom the principal subsequently rated down for not having the lesson plans the principal refused to look at). There is the drama coach whose supervisor complained the students shouldn’t have been out of school for the state competition, which they won. There is the mathematician from the telecommunications industry whose supervisor didn’t know geometry, or algebra, or calculus, and insisted the teacher should be offering multiplication table timed quizzes to advanced math classes. The guy whose principal thought history documentaries selected from the school’s libraries were just Hollywood movies, and therefore inappropriate for history classes.
More than enough horror stories to go around.
One teacher tells a few horror stories from his student teaching days, but tells us he went on to get his school’s distinguished alumnus award. And so, he shares some of his best material, here: Horace Mann Educated Financial Solutions, “Reach Every Child.”
Go make change.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Car Family, which is really the same guy.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
