annual evaluations. . . . "I'm awesome. Look at all this amazing shit I did this year and recognize!"
That makes sense. In my school, we had to submit self-improvement plans by the middle of October. Like, "Tell us what amazing shit you'll be doing this year." And it's such a crock, because we do amazing shit when the need arises, and we don't know what the need will be until it shows up!!!
Like the year I devised tactile versions of games so that the blind student could play games with the sighted students. (I saved 5 mins at the end of every other session for game-playing as a reward for good work.) Or the year I helped the teachers rework their mandated lesson-plan forms to [a] save space on the page and [b] be easier to use. Or the year I spent searching the internet and making vocabulary cards to help the Spec Ed teacher. I didn't know ANY of those in October! Grrr...
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That makes sense. In my school, we had to submit self-improvement plans by the middle of October. Like, "Tell us what amazing shit you'll be doing this year." And it's such a crock, because we do amazing shit when the need arises, and we don't know what the need will be until it shows up!!!
Like the year I devised tactile versions of games so that the blind student could play games with the sighted students. (I saved 5 mins at the end of every other session for game-playing as a reward for good work.) Or the year I helped the teachers rework their mandated lesson-plan forms to [a] save space on the page and [b] be easier to use. Or the year I spent searching the internet and making vocabulary cards to help the Spec Ed teacher. I didn't know ANY of those in October! Grrr...