Hi,
I am a secondary school teacher.
I am currently on secondment in a different school than the one I work. I am here for a month, working full time teaching my subjects. I am overseas.
My school is an IB International school. My secondment is in a local comprehensive.
I teach local language and literature, English LL and social science.
I have a co-teacher teaching “local LL” in a grade 8 class because the class is big and they have some issues in class. The co-teacher has been there two weeks already.
He is not a trained teacher, he has a master in history. He has not worked as a teacher before, but he has read some books and he knows it all.
He has no classroom management skills. He raises his voice, shouts, draws attention to children who struggle by calling them out in class, telling them they have behaviour marks. He butts in when I am teaching, tries to take over, etc
Today I had the entire class paying perfect attention on language history, dialects and grammar, when he interrupted my teaching to shout at a student who laid his head down on the desk because he found it hard to follow. The class was lost thereafter. Coteacher did not take my signal to leave the student be.
in my opinion you don’t aggravate a frustrated student who carry a lot of anger issues by humiliating them in front of the class.
coteacher could have let me explain the task, then spoken to the student after.
I am not sure how to handle this.
I go back to my school in two weeks. But he is not serving these kids well.
I find a teacher who is embarrassing kids, then telling them he is doing it because he cares so much a big red flag.
any thoughts?