Thursday, February 18, 2010

On the "good news" front

Gotta go to bed now, so I'm just going to bullet point this, and come back later to fill in detail (yeah, right...)

* continue to get rave reviews from the state inspectors
*got the required observation / evaluation from my Assistant Principal and she was effusive in her praise
* have spoken to Mr. Principal about teaching a dual enrollment course (which requires a master's degree in math to teach, and no other teacher has one), and he's been very encouraging
*MHS is attempting to become an IB school, and so for the next year or two, we'll be implementing an IB curriculum. I'm one of 4 math teachers tapped to be trained in, and teach IB math.
* got told by the department head that in her meeting with the principal, he called me and one other new teacher the best in the department, behind only Mrs. CowCulus and Mrs. D, her faithful sidekick.

I can merely reiterate something I told Mrs. D a couple of months ago -- if I'm good, there must be some incredibly bad teaching going on in other classrooms, because I'm only now beginning to feel barely adequate, and that's on my best days.

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