{"id":5211,"date":"2015-06-14T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2015-06-14T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T10:14:52","slug":"a-supportive-work-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/a-supportive-work-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Supportive Work Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anneby Anne Hendler<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnne!\u201d My boss, Grace, calls me as I\u2019m on my way home. \u201cAre you still near the school? Can you come back?\u201d<\/p>\n

Inwardly, I sigh. It\u2019s Friday night and my week is over. \u201cSure. Just a sec.\u201d<\/p>\n

She meets me at the door. I\u2019m a little nervous because she had just observed two of my classes, something she rarely does. \u201cCan I borrow your book?\u201d Grace asks. \u201cI told the high schoolers about the debate your classes had and they want to try it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m surprised, but I fish out the book and hand it over.<\/p>\n

She smiles. \u201cThank you for your hard work. Always.\u201d<\/p>\n

She goes back to her class.<\/p>\n

My boss notices when I do extra work. When I organise a debate or make a test, she sees. She\u2019s a teacher herself, so she is aware of the time and effort that go into the extra things. And she never fails to say thank you.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome and see!\u201d Jessica, the only other regular staffroom teacher walks into my room with a big smile. I follow her out to her own classroom, where she\u2019s posted the paragraphs and pictures the students have made on the wall. She describes the effort they put into the work and how proud she is of them. Jessica is our school’s Korean ‘English grammar teacher’, one of the quirks of ELT in Korea. But she means so much more than that to me and our school.<\/p>\n

Another day: \u201cHow was your class?\u201d I ask as Jessica sits down.<\/p>\n

She sighs. \u201cOne student lost his temper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI bet I can guess who.\u201d I sigh, too.<\/p>\n

Our biggest challenges are classroom management with the younger students. But we share them and talk through them together. We have a supportive work environment.<\/p>\n

The four of us make a dedicated, hard-working team. I teach five days a week. Jessica and Grace teach six. Our boss\u2019s husband teaches seven. We all work over 30 hour weeks. We all bring our work home to prepare classes and find, create, or adapt materials. And the thing I wish we had: more time and space to prepare for each day. Or maybe, just maybe, some extra help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Anne Hendler \u201cAnne!\u201d My boss, Grace, calls me as I\u2019m on my way home. \u201cAre you still near the school? Can you come back?\u201d Inwardly, I sigh. It\u2019s Friday night and my week is over. \u201cSure. Just a sec.\u201d She meets me at the door. I\u2019m a little nervous because she had just observed … Continue reading A Supportive Work Environment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-needs-and-abundance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}