ECT leaving after 4 months at first job
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:07 pm
Hi everyone ,
I am a graduated ECT with also a Masters degree in Primary Education. I decided to go into Early Childhood as I am very passionate about early learning and child development. I don't mind dealing with the children - that's part of my job, however, I can no longer stand the staff at the centre. The staff are VERY unprofessional here for the following reasons:
1) When I started, they (the director ) wrote on my time sheet that my qualification was a diploma level educator when my employment contract clearly stated that I am an appointed ECT for the service. I found that a passive aggressive form of not recognising my professional status as a teacher and I found that to be quite demoralising. This 'mistake' continued for 3 months, despite me pointing it out several times. I ignored this kindly.
2) I'm sorry but I cannot take the educational leader here seriously with 3 years industry experience and a diploma and not even continuing any professional development. She encourages the use of rote learning, stencils, structured school based activities just to impress parents. She has nothing beneficial to offer and basically uses her position to boss others around over how they should run the room and criticises every small decision I make e.g. Why we decided to have lunch outdoors
I believe that even 20 years of experience means nothing if you are not doing things the right way and not continuously improving your practice.
3) the trainee runs the room seriously, she's very loud, obnoxious and gives orders to everyone and mostly avoids doing the dirty work because she thinks she's too good to do it + she's lazy. I rearranged the room very specific to the children's learning needs- one week later she rearranged it again.
4) director ignores my concerns- director believes that everyone has the right to make changes and give each other orders.
5) director got in trouble off the upper management and let out all her frustrations on me. She said if people are 'unhappy' (she knows I'm unhappy here over what I described above) that they can leave. I was almost going to cry.
6) there was one time I was cleaning toilets 5 days a week especially when parents were coming to pick up their children. I was never taken seriously and felt demoralised as I wanted to interact more with families but my duties were more important so management didn't allow me to do so.
7) Parents have complained about the toys, resources and rude staff around here
8) whenever I give a suggestion they (director and 2ic) challenge it all the time because ect doesn't know anything
9) I aspire to be a director myself one day or second in charge. But when I show these aspirations I am told to 'calm down '
Aren't I allowed to be ambitious? Aren't I qualified ? Aren't I capable enough? I'm very sad. I don't think it should take me 20 years to be a director. I don't think it should even take me 5 years to be 2ic. It took all my other class fellows from university 2 to 3 years to move into 2ic roles. But I feel like I can never move up here. Nobody in management is university qualified and now I'm thinking ECT degree meant nothing. I am started to doubt myself now. Everyone is rude here and so I have decided to resign.
I am a graduated ECT with also a Masters degree in Primary Education. I decided to go into Early Childhood as I am very passionate about early learning and child development. I don't mind dealing with the children - that's part of my job, however, I can no longer stand the staff at the centre. The staff are VERY unprofessional here for the following reasons:
1) When I started, they (the director ) wrote on my time sheet that my qualification was a diploma level educator when my employment contract clearly stated that I am an appointed ECT for the service. I found that a passive aggressive form of not recognising my professional status as a teacher and I found that to be quite demoralising. This 'mistake' continued for 3 months, despite me pointing it out several times. I ignored this kindly.
2) I'm sorry but I cannot take the educational leader here seriously with 3 years industry experience and a diploma and not even continuing any professional development. She encourages the use of rote learning, stencils, structured school based activities just to impress parents. She has nothing beneficial to offer and basically uses her position to boss others around over how they should run the room and criticises every small decision I make e.g. Why we decided to have lunch outdoors
I believe that even 20 years of experience means nothing if you are not doing things the right way and not continuously improving your practice.
3) the trainee runs the room seriously, she's very loud, obnoxious and gives orders to everyone and mostly avoids doing the dirty work because she thinks she's too good to do it + she's lazy. I rearranged the room very specific to the children's learning needs- one week later she rearranged it again.
4) director ignores my concerns- director believes that everyone has the right to make changes and give each other orders.
5) director got in trouble off the upper management and let out all her frustrations on me. She said if people are 'unhappy' (she knows I'm unhappy here over what I described above) that they can leave. I was almost going to cry.
6) there was one time I was cleaning toilets 5 days a week especially when parents were coming to pick up their children. I was never taken seriously and felt demoralised as I wanted to interact more with families but my duties were more important so management didn't allow me to do so.
7) Parents have complained about the toys, resources and rude staff around here
8) whenever I give a suggestion they (director and 2ic) challenge it all the time because ect doesn't know anything
9) I aspire to be a director myself one day or second in charge. But when I show these aspirations I am told to 'calm down '
Aren't I allowed to be ambitious? Aren't I qualified ? Aren't I capable enough? I'm very sad. I don't think it should take me 20 years to be a director. I don't think it should even take me 5 years to be 2ic. It took all my other class fellows from university 2 to 3 years to move into 2ic roles. But I feel like I can never move up here. Nobody in management is university qualified and now I'm thinking ECT degree meant nothing. I am started to doubt myself now. Everyone is rude here and so I have decided to resign.