The evaluation process...
This is what most teachers dread each year, even more than what difficult child they may get in their classroom. Children you can deal with many times but adults in leadership are the worst. Any suggestion, any comment, any wrong emotion is seen as an act of usurpation. And then you get evaluated... The process is broken; simply and completely broken. They always say they are here to help you become a better teacher but that is not what the evaluation shows those in state authoritative positions. They come in for a random 30 minutes. They script what they see. They presume and assume as they write. They don't know the whole story of what you are doing. They perceive learning differently because of what they are told to look for by politicians. They explain they are there for just a "snap shot" of the classroom but then feel they know the whole class. They ask you questions that have nothing to do with the lesson but have to go by a rubric. They ask questions