Summer School-Part 2

Summer School is over!!! As much as I enjoy teaching the little kids, this year was not as enjoyable due to the teaching staff I had to work with. Those of you who read Part 1 know that I was team teaching with 2 other teachers (P and A). I got along great with A, but P had a totally different teaching style, if you could even call it a style. It was more that she was downright lazy when it came to teaching. And she knew how to get the kids all riled up and excited, but really played no role in calming them down again.

So I am excited that summer school is over and hoping that P will not be teaching with A and I next year. We have voiced our frustrations to both the site coordinator and the summer school coordinator. The summer school coordinator was going to talk to P and let her know that there were some problems this year and that she will not be teaching at that school again, if she decides to return next year after their talk. I don't know what Gail is planned to tell her, but A and I are waiting for an e-mail from P expressing her anger at us!! We haven't got that yet, so I am not sure if Gail has talked to her or not.

Besides the teaching situation, I enjoyed the children once again this year. Most of the parents were not so bad either!! The children seemed to enjoy summer school and many of them are well adjusted to the kindergarten routine. Hopefully the kindergarten teachers will not have quite the problems at the beginning of the year that she has had in the past with kids from summer school. They usually ran around like they owned the room-which given P's teaching style is understandable. Hopefully A and I have provided enough structure for the kids to feel comfortable in the room and kindergarten, but not like the own the place. I feel that we did a nice job providing activities for them and letting them know what was off limits.

Now we just have to wait and see what next summer brings!!!