Colleague constantly trying to outdo me... AIBU?

[Glastogirl]

Not long till the end of term and maybe I'm just tired but this is really starting to get to me.

A colleague who works in the same year group is me is always trying to outdo me and never shares good practice.

I am not interested in competing with her and it's just silly little things e.g. 24 of my class passed a recent test and only 21 of hers did. After she heard 24 of mine passed her pass rate suddenly increased to 26 she re-tested some . (Not the year 1 phonics screening before anyone says) exact numbers have been changed to prevent identification but the percentages are the same

For next year she has given herself all the children I had the siblings of who did well in their SATS because she automatically thinks they'll do well too. One parent asked me if I didn't want her dd in my class as she was in the other class and I had to explain that the list had nothing to do with me and if it had she would have been! :)

She goes on courses because she leads the key stage but never fully shares what she learns and just says things like 'it's pretty much what we were doing anyway' etc

I don't want to list endless examples as it could out me and there just doesn't seem any point.

Not sure there is anything I can do, just wanted a little moan as I can't say anything to anyone at school but needed to vent!

AIBU to feel a bit miffed?

That sounds horrible.

Everywhere I have ever worked the teqachers in the same year group stick together like glue and support and help each other, not out-do each other.

She sounds like she has no self-confidence.

Miffed and concerned I would say. I worked with someone like this and it did not end well. Really be careful and maybe start noting some of the things she does to undermine you. Do other people recognise that she is doing this? If not call her on it in a public space, I don't mean start a row but look her in the eye and say "I feel a bit annoyed that you put all of those children in your set for next year because of the SATs results" or something like that. Don't let her keep getting away with it.

I say this because the person I worked with was so unhinged she tried to land several of us in the school in REALLY big trouble with serious accusations. Because it had become general knowledge that she had been bullying people for some time she did not get away with it.

Be careful. Teachers like this can make big trouble for you. I've worked with someone like this. She is still making life miserable for her colleagues with her manipulation and lies.

I'm not a teacher, but have a similar thing with one of my colleagues. In fact, until I met her I didn't even realise that passive-aggressiveness was a real thing! In meetings, if I'm talking about something, she will interrupt and start inserting her own ideas (I'm not exactly lacking in confidence, but this really wrong-foots me). As we share an office, we could be talking about something - once she started bitching about another colleague (who, incidentally, is bloody useless) and I made some comment about her not being worth the vast amount of money she is paid and suddenly I am rude. If someone comes into the office to see me, she will interrupt our conversation and basically try to be the centre of attention. I know this all sounds really silly, but when it is happening all the time, it really does wear you down.

I think that you really do have to find someone in school that you can share these concerns with. The sharing best practice and refusing to share what was learnt on courses is a really big issue because the school is sending her thinking that what is learnt will be disseminated and it is not. What if you have missed something important that you need for your own professional development?

When someone does INSET at my school, as part of the application, they have to show how they would share the day's findings. At the very least, all documents/PowerPoints would be made accessible to all.

Also, if the days are so unproductive, why does she keep going on them?

As for the allocation of classes, and she appears to control this, are they broadly similar in spread of ability?