What does supervision look like for teachers in MS?
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Anonymous
| DD has a teacher who is creating a lot of problems for their students. Do not want to argue whether this is worth escalating but assuming it is who would you go to next? Does the district have department chairs like in universities? Do you escalate directly to the principal? |
Anonymous
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Admin will want to hear from you if it affects your student and they will want to know how it affects your student. Do you know your grade's administrator? If so, you could talk to that assistant principal.
If you have an active PTSA, you could mention this issue to your PTSA president, who (hopefully) meets with the principal regularly. The PTSA is another avenue of communication with the principal. |
Anonymous
| No problems at our school aside from one or two isolated incidents over the past 3 years. |
Anonymous
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I'm a former middle school teacher. Administration typically asks what efforts have you made to resolve the issue directly with the teacher. Be ready to answer that question if you go to an administrator.
I was supervised and evaluated by an assistant principal, and that would be the right person to contact concerning performance issues. I would advise that you not try go directly to the principal. You can call the main office or look at the school website if you don't know the assistant principal. We also had a department head. That person would be best for content-specific issues, like why kids aren't doing art in art class, or something like that. |
Anonymous
| Start with teacher, then reach out to the content specialist, then to the grade-level AP. If this is affecting more than just your student, ask other parents to do the same. Put everything in writing. |
Anonymous
| How do you figure out the content specialist and correct assistant principal? |
Anonymous
The school website, usually in staff directory. But if not, just call and ask. |
Anonymous
The CS is listed on the directory for each department, the AP overseeing each department you'd have to ask for. |
Anonymous
Which question in the OP does this answer? |