My dd is doing a secondary maths pgce at the moment and her mentor at her placement is very unsupportive and criticises everything she does. She knows that she needs to improve but the final straw was that he stood and ranted at her for five minutes without her being able to reply. She taught two of his classes today and his reaction was that she was not making them all singing all dancing so they were not good enough.
She is working from 7am to 10 pm everyday and is absolutely exhausted.
My question is is this normal mentor treatment or is it bullying. Dd has wanted to teach forever and feedback from other teachers has been good. University are not being very supportive and her tutor is on jury service so cannot help at the moment.
Any ideas for how I can help her. Is it possible for her to repeat a placement else where next year?
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larry5 · 28/04/2014 23:15
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