Is she a co-worker?
Not exactly. She's my math coach. She's got a million things to do, which I absolutely get (she works at several different schools in the area, and with all the math teachers at our school when she's there) -- I'm just very bad with the self-promotion, particularly offering up the self-promotion for editing. Or something.
Wow, Vortex, thanks! I've been thinking out the basics, based on things she's said to me. She does think I've grown a lot over the past year (my first teaching), my lesson design and management have improved, I've gotten a lot of practice working with English Language Learners and adapting my instruction to make it accessible for them, and I've been working with a particularly difficult population (her words, not mine) in terms of language and achievement. She did say she thinks it's unfair that they stuck the brand new (and non-Spanish-speaking) teacher with the low-performing, high-ELL-percentage classes.
Anyway, I'm looking for high school jobs for next year, still teaching math, ideally at a school without as many discipline problems.
Most of that is just thinking out loud. Across-the-hall!Teacher also said she'd help me with it, she's just out of town today. I'm going to need to pin down the principal and force SOME kind of letter of reference out of him -- he said he'd give me one at the end of the year (with the not-so-subtle "so long as you're good" implied, I think), but I need one now. God, I hate this whole thing.
Hey, what a great job I just did of wasting time, huh? Off to do my laundry, grade, and watch "The Scarlet Pimpernel" with Across-the-hall!Teacher's dog. She's worried he'll get lonely.