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[cwemory]

I just received a three-page Native Teachers Environment Evaluation from my co-teacher. Considering I'm only three months into a one year contract, how honest should I be on it? Most of the problems I have are either small enough for my co-teachers and I to be able to solve, or are so large as to be district or region-wide problems. Has anyone else had to complete one? I would have felt much more comfortable if I had received it at the end of the contract, especially since many of the questions can only be fairly answered by some one with a year's experience at the school.

[ddeubel]

This topic is fresh in my mind.

Don't fill it in, in my opinion. Not unless you are guaranteed absolute anonymity.

I just had this conversation with the head of my program . It was about my own survey of native teachers and their own ongoing one (now at the end of the contract period for most teachers. ). She seemed to accept my point that it isn't good to throw a survey in a native speaking teacher's face at the school and that this method isn't correct. Will it change? I hope so but might not , even though I am fighting this same thing.

The survey should be like the one I ran, online, anonymous and where the teacher in question has the time and place to fully and in a relaxed fashion, answer the survey questions.

DD

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[kimchi story]

I fully agree with ddeubel. Yesterday I had my second demo class and both times my coteacher has given me this survey after. Both times I simply filled out excellent on all accounts and handed it back. My coteacher sees it, and she talks to everybody. There's no way I'm going to offer any serious criticism knowing that it will be reiterated to any interested parties and attributed to me.

Well, I did kinda go balls out this time and suggest that two more weeks of vacation would be logical, but I figured that was more or less safe.