now that I have your attention - please read the following!

 

Hello everybody!

 

Is it weird that I īd rather share all my work with you, then to give it  to my so-called colleagues at work.

 

colleagues?....ha!...what colleagues.........bunch of moochers.

 

 

Has anyone ever experienced this?

 

Rather than getting a "hello" in the morning, I get "what are you doing with your students today" and "can I have it". How do you respond to a person like this? Very annoying! You can īt make a move, without the other person commenting or knowing about it.

 

It īs also frustrating...   cause you know that the only reason the person is talking to you is cause they WANT stuff...rather than share or work together...

 

 

This is going on to another friend of mine, who teachers another subject.

What do you guys think? Am I overreacting?

 

 

Thanks (it feels good to vent)

 

 

 

 

I can totally understand how you must feel.

 

First of all, you can īt let other teachers take advantage of you any more. Would it be possible to have an informal sit down or staff meeting? You point out how you have helped other teachers with their lessons but how they rarely help you. Explain (nicely) how this makes you feel and perhaps make a suggestion of "idea sharing". I don īt know how your school works, but this could be on a lesson basis (example if you are all teaching the same lesson, each person tries to come up with an idea) or take turns-you think of ideas for this lesson, your friend for the next lesson etc. OR some kind of alternative, the important thing is not ONLY to complain, but to try to provide a SOLUTION. know what I mean? and remember, maybe the other teachers aren īt really aware of how their actions are making you feel. If they aren īt preparing properly, then chances are they don īt realize the effort you are putting in.

 

I think the most important thing is that you be honest, otherwise you will have only yourself to blame....I know it  might be difficult, but if those teachers don īt change their ways after you talk to them, then I don īt think they are "friends" at all, and you shouldn īt worry about offending them by saying "I don īt know" or something like that when they ask you next time.

good luck!

penny

I myself have the same situation like you. More than three teachers in our English group asked me to share them my work, include worksheets, lesson plans. I found it really difficult to refuse. After some times, when they asked me to īlend � them my work, I said with a smile (half joke) that I couldn īt because it my secret. 

Hope you can solve this problem easily.

 

If you want to get them off your back just give them something slightly incomplete (like a sentence or punchline missing).

 

Of course I am way to sweet and responsible to do it myself but sometimes I wish could.

 

Worse than moochers are the ones that promise to prepare a ws or test but they never get it done in time or they do it so half -ssed that it isn īt worth anything and anyway you knew it would turnout that way anyway so you actually did it yourself just in case.  Like I have a staff of 6 teachers under me but I seem to be doing all the work.