I've posted here a few times. Hopefully this post isn't redundant. It started in January when I got observed.
I've posted here a few times. Hopefully this post isn't redundant. It started in January when I got observed. I'm still technically in my first year of teaching. We were doing a gallery walk as a pre reading exercise. We also worked with Amplify. I was put on an improvement plan for a few reasons. One of them being that I wasn't using Amplify "with fidelity". (To make things worse, a gallery walk was suggested by the admin that dinged me for using that strategy) My improvement plan had me making in depth lesson plans for everyday of the week. When I say in depth, I mean they were sometimes more than 6 pages long (I was given the format, I didn't choose it.) I was spending so much time filling these out that it took time away from grading and my family. It became very obvious to me that no one even read these lesson plans. There was NO POINT. I legitimately had anxiety attacks on my plan periods because of this and several other things. I was in a PD one day and someone looked at my LinkedIn page. I assumed I didn't have enough experience for this job (it's corporate). I got an offer within the week. Put my two weeks in to the school with tears in my eyes. Brought cupcakes for all my students on my last day. I cried when I left wondering if this disruption I had caused would hurt the kids education. I know that I was an imperfect teacher. Hell, my classroom management was not good. But I'll miss it (as I will miss snow days, and spring break, and summer break). But my mental health is so much better. I'm paid far more than I made at the school and I feel like my husband and I can breathe again. I'm in an environment where I can take a bathroom break whenever I want. It's been an improvement overall. Still can't get my students out of my head. Still hoping they're doing well. I still have my email until Friday because I had posted some assignments for the sub. A student emailed me begging me to come back. There are simply a lot of feelings about leaving that I'm figuring out. But I really do enjoy my new environment. I'm not looking for advice and I'm not sure why I want to post this. But here we are. For those of you who are still teaching, man, you're stronger than I was. Will forever respect any teacher working their way through everything! submitted by /u/Melted_Ice_cream_42 [link] [comments]