Helpful ways to have control of your classroom as the teacher, without confrontation amongst the staff members. Many times, Directors, Assistant Directors, Principals, Assistant Principals, etc overstep the professional boundaries within the classroom. Although they are there at the site, or school to manage different things within Early Childhood Care/Learning the professional boundaries need to be set. As a teacher you are not less of a staff member, less authoritative to a student and it's the teacher who documents, knows the children and what works for his/her classroom on a daily basis. Because of a job title, Directors, Coaches, and other job titles outside of the classroom should not be able to walk and just overtake, try and control someone's classroom and bring up things in the middle of instruction, an activity, etc. If a teacher has came to continue a routine that satisfies families and causes no harm to students, but works in a different manner from normal everyday (which was not working in the first place), nothing should be said from any other staff member who just walks in. My concern in that situation is who's classroom is it, meaning if that is the teacher's job title, the teacher is solely held responsible for takes place in the classroom. It's disrespectful to any teacher, even assistant teachers that other staff members with job titles that may not be the teacher to disrupt, intervene with an instructional day. Something that addresses those staff members to prevent confrontation and things that are non-professional to allow teachers their privacy within their classroom would be great.
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Shoni Thomas
Teacher Assistant
FWISD
Fort Worth, Texas
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