Demography Ms. James advanced 17 Discussion: Larger AP Two chapters More industry Films, current News
Miss Forest Multi 34 Terms, questions Smaller Special Ed. Discussions. To CP One chapter, section Poor Daily (one chapter Weekly) current events. One story from up-front (Student news magazine)
Were the evaluators aware of the level and size of the assigned class? Apparently not. Then why didn’t they know? Since the purpose of the assignment was to teach Miss Forest how to teach, her students should have been considered . Ms. Green expressed her concern about needs of special education students that were not met while under Miss Forest’s instruction; then why such a class was not assigned for her observation? Was Dromedary High School the only school with such classes? Evidently Ciber-Blue High did not have such classes. But improvement never entered the mind of any of these administrators. If that statement is disputed, then why wasn’t Miss Forest assigned a class to observe similar to students under her instruction? It appears that by not allowing Miss Forest to observe on campus (Dromedary High School) protected some of her co-workers from these unjust evaluators. Clearly seen in observing the work of this committee in its relationship to Miss Forest is a picture of un-organization – of the lowest. Mr. Murphy allowed himself more than enough time in dealing with Miss Forest. For example, lesson plans had to be submitted to his office one week in advance of instruction. And he required her to notify him forty-eight (48) hours in advance if she was unable to furnish her transportation to Ciber-Blue High School for observing the history class for her improvement. Much is lacking on the part of the committee. Essential ones are: Miss Forest’s lesson plan was ignored. Her observation was scheduled on the day the students were scheduled for “weekly testing at Dromedary High. Thus off-setting classes the entire week. They had her lesson plan prior to scheduling. Failed to get Miss Forest to observation class on time. No teacher was left in her classroom. These three examples show serious lacking in the committee’s creditability in dealing with Miss Forest. It required professionalism of Miss Forest. But its clumsy, batched up, inept action toward her can only be labeled amateurish.
Mr. Murphy’s Teaching
Mr. Murphy taught Miss Forest’s first period class while she was on assignment at Ciber-Blue High School, February 19, 2002. He came to class late and left early. Students spent the remaining part of the period, approximately thirty (30) minutes, in Coach Green’s classroom. Twenty-one (21) students were present. Level ranged from elementary to tenth (10 th ) grade. Length of period: 1 hr. 30 min; course, civics.