Incident happened yesterday and preying on my mind - I'm prepared to be told that I was!
I'm a HoD at a secondary school. Yesterday, a nice sensible student arrived at my lesson (the final period of the day) very upset. When I spoke with them, they burst into tears and told me there were ongoing issues with the teacher of the previous lesson that they hadn't previously spoken to anyone about. I reassured, got them back into my lesson and referred the issue by email to the students pastoral leader and the HoD for the other teacher, explaining that I didn't really understand the specifics of the problem, but knowing the student, perhaps it could be X. At the end of the day I was on duty, then straight into a middle leaders meeting. Pastoral leader replied saying 'Am sure other teacher tries the hardest for all of heir pupils'. I replied stating that I didn't think otherwise, but clarifying that the student in question is likely to have downplayed the issue.
When I came out of the meeting, I'd had an email from the subject teacher in question (relatively new to profession) with a subject title that dripped with sarcasm and chastising me for not emailing them directly. It went on to invite me to watch 'any or all' of their lessons.
Was my judgement adrift? Thanks!
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flutterworc · 30/06/2016 07:36
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