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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I just say how much it sucks to teach in a school with an instructional vacancy and yet have an EMRT (math resource teacher paid out of local funds) and a new STEAM teacher (who is mostly used as an assistant to the principal and literacy resource teacher, not on the master schedule) both of whom used to be classroom teachers?  I don't know how our principal can be allowed to utilize these staff members for extra "coach" type positions while we have class sizes hovering at/near 30 in two grades.

It's good for no one but admin and those teachers.  No one else in the staff wants another coach or resource teacher vs smaller class sizes. Even if it's not your grade impacted, you know the kids will be better disciplined and better prepared and better for the school climate overall if they are in smaller classes.  It just shouldn't be allowed.  [/quote]

Our school moved a teacher to be a math resource teacher from a grade that has a current vacancy and another one of the teachers in that grade is a trainee. I'm sure they are all wonderful people, however I do not comprehend the logic behind this. Our classes are also 30. [/quote]

The math resource teacher position is staffed from a different pool of candidates - it would still have been staffed even if 10 classroom positions were open. The school didn’t chose to move them, that teacher would have probably filled a math resource position at another school.  [/quote]

That is not necessarily true.  If the school does not get an EMRT from central office, the funding is coming from local staffing shifts and trades, and the principal can hire whoever she wants for a "resource teacher" position.  In my school's case, the teacher was not a trained EMRT.  She even had the lowest math SOL scores in the school every year.  Just someone to whom the principal wanted to gift a sweet position.  While the rest of us have classes nearing 30.  Ironically, though she isn't a great math teacher, she was an excellent disciplinarian and the whole grade level really suffers now that she is not in a classroom position.

I don't begrudge anyone a less stressful job.  But I don't think principals whouod be allowed to do this when classes are so big.[/quote]

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