Employer is being extremely odd and disrespecting my department.

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Employer had everyone in the learning centre where I work in HK across 3.5 departments (Eng. Maths. Science and History - one teacher teaches both English and History we have very limited space) spend months creating summer teaching materials - I teach English and in particular IGCSE so I had to sacrifice a lot to create a lot of literature notes and worksheets.

Only for it to transpire that she has not even looked at let alone approved any of my literature annotations to be used in the summer course for one novel. She had no idea what I was talking about when I could not find my notes in the master file of approved teaching materials.

She has also dismissed months of work creating worksheets in favour of teaching essay structures.

I'm also in conjunction with the English department creating a huge overhaul of teaching materials. It's colossal. I'm afraid that like the summer materials, this will also be an absolute waste of time, I spent all of my annual leave working on as much as I could.
Some of her instructions have been helpful, as in postponing some of the non - priority cases, but it's making the whole process even more frustrating, as you can have already started something and then it will take ages to finish.

Everyone at my company works on a contract basis, she's giving false hope to me by talking about the 'new term' and has asked me what I think of teaching new courses etc in my appraisal. I think it's quite a waste of time to talk things that I don't know will happen without having a signed contract first.

She also does things strangely in that for instance I liaised with admin on my annual leave when I was asked to choose dates. I wasn't even told that my dates had been approved, it just came up in a meeting and the boss was irritated about me not knowing.

I can't make any sense of what you're saying she's done wrong. There's loads of punctuation missing and it's all really confusing. And you teach English?

I understand the OP just fine ?!

I don't have any real advice though OP, it all sounds incredibly stressful and chaotic. Is it worth looking for a new contract elsewhere?

So the resources you have prepared do not match the learning style they want adopted? Were you not given guidance at the outset or is this a change of direction? What do you want as an outcome., could you request a specific meeting for your subject

1. My boss had the whole learning centre's staff waste months creating new teaching materials for summer school courses.
2. This meant that every department had to create new materials.
3. The departments involved were English, Maths, Science and History.
4. One teacher teaches both English AND History. So 3.5 subjects.
5. She gives deadlines for everything to be finished.
6. I give up a lot of time to ensure that the work is finished to my deadline.
7. This month I found out that she has not even looked at 50% of the work that I have finished.
8. She has forced me therefore to teach 5 whole lessons without having authorised or even looked at the teaching materials.
9. She also likes moving the goalposts - I completed 5 worksheets to be completed in class.
10. She was fine with them.
11. She checked and approved them.
12. Then she changes her mind and wastes weeks if not months of work by telling me to do something else.
13. My department is now undertaking a massive project - I cannot shake the feeling that she will do the same to this project as she did to the summer courses' materials, thus wasting my teammates' work when we have much more important things that we can't complete instead.
14. To me, the above is either:
15. laziness - quite common in the learning centre industry.
16. recall problems - also worryingly rather common in the learning centre industry.
17. I also had an appraisal meeting with her in which she started to talk about the new school year. Everyone at work is employed on a contract basis. I felt that sitting in a room hearing and talking about the next year before I'd even signed a contract was a waste of my time.