Don't worry about not coming to work today, your talented PDs, will step in and teach. After all, many of them don't even have education experience, or degrees, but, they can do it, because they were given these jobs. There is a PD at my school who does not even have a bachelors degree, nor does he have a background in business, but he's is the PD! Don't worry about classes being missed and covered, our talented managers think they are educators, so we are fine. Look at how good they have done so fa.r
4 replies (most recent on top)
I have one who is almost totally illiterate. Meetings are painful, as we try not to visibly react to her atrocious grammar and spelling errors. I've seen the usual errors: "lose" spelled with two o's, "a lot" spelled as one word, choosing the wrong spelling of "to" or "there." This lady goes way beyond those. For example, "a lot" becomes "allot" in her writing, which is an entirely different word. She has actually written "ther" and it apparently looked fine to her. I mean, come on!
Don't get me started on PDs. I don't know how they were chosen. Most have far less experience and education than the instructors they manage. They're totally in the CCi mission, though. At Heald a few years ago, PDs taught one class each quarter. One of the PDs announced at a team meeting that she gave Bs or better to any student who turned in work, no matter what quality it was.
The PD is also rating instructors based on Outreach and Student Attrition. Can the instructor teach? Doesn't matter in his world...only that they pester and try to retain students.
Our PD may have the degrees, but is delusional. He cares about the numbers of outreach recorded in talisma. The laughable part is that he is doing "counseling" for those instructors that had high student attrition. When a student chooses not to participate, attend, or improve, that is far from being the ibstructor's fault. Once the stipend check is received, the student goes on a spending spree and nothing the instructor does will make them succeed.