Hi all,
I am posting on here on behalf of my husband, who is currently in his first year of ECT at a secondary school. He recently had a bit of an odd observation: the induction lead (not induction tutor) was observing. She came in five minutes late, then went out halfway through for 10 minutes without explanation or excusing herself.
Afterwards, she told my husband she left because there was no physical seating plan available (his HoD informed her that their department doesn’t do physical seating plans), and that he apparently failed to explain the terminology at the start of the lesson (which my husband did do, but the observer missed it due to being late). She then demanded a second observation.
Today, my husband had a meeting with his induction tutor, who told him two people would be at the next observation (planned for next week). My husband told her he felt singled out and very uncomfortable as none of the other ECTs are being treated like this. She also confirmed to my husband there weren’t any problems he should be aware of when he asked her, and previously has consistently been told that he’s doing ok.
His induction tutor was visibly worried when my husband questioned why all this needed if he deemed “on track”, and later he received an email from the observer asking for a meeting.
He’s spoken to his subject mentor (who is also the HoD for that subject and a member of the SLT), who said he cannot understand it and will try and clarify the situation.
Is this type of scenario common? My husband is worried this means he’ll be put on a support plan, despite all his feedback being positive so far overall. Does anyone have any thoughts on this/ experienced this type of situation?