I'm a trainee teacher at the moment. I'm supposed to do 8-12 hour each week of actual teaching across the four days that I am at school (we have university for the PGCE one day each week). Up until a few weeks ago, I got on really well with my mentor and everything was going really well. We have our meetings on Monday and everything was fine. Then, on Tuesday, she said we needed to talk so we set up a meeting so set one up for Wednesday. She said she'd heard really good things about me from my other qualified teachers but she couldn't see anything good about my teaching. I had my school active training session that afternoon and the lead came to me and said my mentor had complained multiple times that I don't know the names of one of my classes (I'd taught this class once, for one hour and learnt around 6/30 names - but this had been hindered because the systems had been down and I couldn't access the registers or seating plans for the class). I thought it was unreasonably harsh to complain multiple times that I didn't know their names when I'd only taught them one time (so, since the first complaint, had no further opportunity to learn them or demonstrate I knew them).
Since that day, I've had no positive feedback from my mentor but my feedback from my other teachers has all been really positive. My mentor undermines me in my lessons - in one lesson I sent a student out for punching another student and she said it was fine and brought him back in. She's also started bringing me into lessons that she can't control that aren't my timetabled classes. So, this week, I did 13 hours of actual teaching plus four hours assisting her with classes she can't control. That only leaves me with 3 planning hours when I'm supposed to have 10.
Another problem is that, as a trainee, I'm not given a laptop or computer at my school. I take my own laptop but for security reasons they won't let me onto the school wifi, so I hotspot off my phone. I can't hotspot off my phone anywhere in the school because the school has phone signal blockers installed (to stop the kids using their phones) and so I can't even check my work emails whilst I'm at work or plan any lessons. So, I have to do all my planning and everything after I get home.
Today I had a meeting with my mentor and she said that I don't have any friends in the department and no one gets on with me - which I really struggle to believe because there's a solid group of around six of us (all the same age-ish) in my department and we get together and chat and message outside of work. We have in-jokes and I spent a lot of time before work and breaks and lunchtimes etc talking. The other four members of the department (including my mentor) all have senior roles in the school so they have offices and don't hang out in the department staffroom (but I have pleasant conversations with them in the corridor etc). There haven't been any issues with anyone. When I mentioned to a couple of other people in the department what she said they suggested it might have been a joke or I completely misunderstood what she was saying because it's so untrue - but I definitely know exactly what she said. My mentor has said I need to wait in school until two hours after school finishes each day in the department staffroom so I can "make friends" with the other people who stay behind. Today, I waited and the only person there was my friend in the department who stayed to console me about what my mentor had said. She left half an hour after school finished so I sat, on my own, without internet access, for an hour and half.
This afternoon, I had a lesson that my mentor was observing and she tore me to shreds in her feedback. She criticised me for not having a powerpoint (because the classroom computer crashed and I couldn't put the powerpoint up), for not having the seating plan set up correctly (because there had been timetable changes no one told me about so a bunch of new kids turned up to my class without me being told) and for not having provided work to a student who went to the support centre instead of coming to class (because I didn't know she'd decide to go to the support centre instead of coming to class - because I'm not psychic).
Tomorrow, I'm teaching all five hours, only one of them is being observed by my mentor. But I know she's going to rip it to shreds and there's nothing that I can do about it. AIBU to just call in sick?
(Before I get jumped on for how few hours this is, these are just the teaching hours as a trainee. It doesn't include the time for doing form time, meetings, training sessions, observations, marking, planning, creating assessments, providing feedback, doing my academic assessments, duties, cover lessons etc).