We have resolution to the major thread from a few weeks ago about the supervisor whose drop-in evaluation demanded output from our group member, if you remember. Here is how much good has come from that attack:
Hi Ben,
Oh happy day….Oh happy daaaay… I wanted to update you on the issues with my supervisor and her misinformed evaluation.
I met with my principal today for her evaluation of my Formal Observation and was ready to let my CI guns blaze away but it turned out to be unnecessary: she is TOTALLY in agreement with me about the forced output business! First she gave me rave reviews, all high scores in all of the domains in which we are officially evaluated and then she assured me that my informal observation results would have no effect whatsoever on my Final Eval in a few months. She basically told me not to worry about my supervisor, said that the supervisor “feels threatened by you because you are so competent” and gave me the choice of either educating my supervisor about L2 acquisition now by myself (ugh!) or to wait until the end of the year and have the principal spearhead a program-wide program revision with regard to output expectations. She asked me to share the Administrator Checklist with her as well as the TPRS/Bloom’s Taxonomy document that Bryce put together. AND I have been asked to give a presentation on TPRS to the other teachers in my department as well as the Spanish Immersion teachers (in my school half the kids are in Immersion and the other half get 30 to 45 minutes of Spanish a day starting in Kindergarten).
So at the end of the day, my supervisor can say whatever she wants, a new day is dawning for our program! Well, it was already here, the sun is just rising to high noon. And I’m going to do all I can to make that CI sun shine as bright as it can for our kids.
Thanks so much for the support! I read daily and don’t post very often but you guys really keep me going!