Learning About Communication and the Workplace: Rant and Self Reflection
When faced with a class that will have a floating number of students, and no set level I asked my boss for some solutions on how to manage the situation. She said she has taught this kind of class and the solution is to plan more than one lesson plan for each two-hour class and to make it fun and light. "You are a teacher. This is easy for you, so just do it. Just be flexible." When I asked for some example activities that could accommodate such a wide range of potentially different classroom dynamics she had no answer. She said different ages, and different levels don't affect the classroom dynamics that much. This made me think she was lying when she said she had taught in this kind of situation. She also told me not to discuss this kind of problem with HR even though that is what HR told me to do. HR tells me to do what makes my branch angry with me, and my branch tells me to do what makes HR's job harder. If I didn't care about doing a good job I wou