Has anyone sat down with her and conversed with her about how she believes
she is doing? What help has she been given to become a better teacher?
be aware that teaching and library science are arts - one is either given
the gift/talent or one isn't -- to be an effective librarian or teacher can
not be learned from classes or books....perhaps she will never improve. Her
dignity needs to be upheld, however. What improvement program is in place?
Allan
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo (Brother Donogh Allan, MGC)
Bishop Kearney High School Library
125 Kings Highway South
Rochester, New York 14617
585-342 - 4000 x231
585-342 - 4694 (FAX)
acuseo@bkhs.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Dalton" <chenapanyaya@YAHOO.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] What to do with incompetant colleague?
> I come to you with this question because I am really at a loss. I have
created a new email address and have subscribed to LM_Net on this email
address, too, just so I can ask this question. I don't want to offend the
person involved, not that she subscribes here, but who knows who might know
her?
>
> Anyway, I work in a 2-librarian high school library. The person that was
hired last school year does not know what she is doing. She was a teacher
before, but she possesses no teaching skills whatsover, no "with-it-ness",
and has no management skills. I could go on and on with examples of things
she does wrong, things she doesn't know that most high school students know,
and so on and so forth. Today a class was in doing their term paper. She
had watched me teach the same lesson THREE TIMES last week, yet when she got
up there she said everything wrong, told them incorrect places to look, and
left very important things out. The teacher had to take over and tell the
class what they needed to know because she didn't know what to do with them.
I watched from the sidelines and had to walk away because I wanted to cry.
How can a person make no progress in a whole school year on a job?
>
> I also have to say that I am really kind of sick of spending my days
watching her work on her school assignments or reading the newspaper while I
assist all of the students and tackle projects. She hasn't come up with a
single good idea (or even a bad idea) or produced anything for the library.
>
> I thought maybe she would improve this school year, but it hasn't gotten
any better. Finally, in October I had to go to the Principal and explain the
situation. He seemed concerned and said he would have to get in and start
observing her. Well, this is February and no observations yet. I should say
here that most of the staff have noticed her lack of ability and have gone
so far as to request I teach all of their classes when they come in.
Needless to say, I am rather discouraged and am not sure what to do.. She is
a really nice person and we get along, so this isn't a matter of there being
a personality conflict. I am really concerned because it isn't fair to me or
the students to have someone in the job that has no idea what she is doing.
I am at a loss and am not sure what to do now. I don't want to leave this
job as I have been here for years and I love the school. One of the teachers
in the libary today asked me how it was going and when I told her I was
thinking of leav!
> ing she
> begged me not to because if I left "the library will fall apart."
Everyone knows she is clueless, but nothing seems to be happening.
>
> Is there anything I can even do about this? If so, what? I guess you could
say I am really at the end of my rope. Springtime is really busy with a lot
more term papers than the Fall. Right now I am looking at another Spring
like last Spring and, frankly, it makes me tired just thinking about it. I
am getting really panicked and stressed. I am afraid I am going to snap and
when I do, it isn't going to be pretty.
>
> I am signing this anonymous so I don't embarrass her or cause any problems
between her and I, in case she sees this somehow. I may have to work with
her for the next 20 years.
>
>
>
> Fake Identity, Librarian
>
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>
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>
> ChenapanYaYa@yahoo.com
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