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As someone who hires teachers, I do carefully scrutinize past employment. If it didn't work out somewhere else, it probably will not be better with another school. I have an opening now, middle of the year, and will not interview teachers currently in a contract. If they are willing to ditch their current students, that tells me what kind of teacher they are, no matter what the circumstances may be. There are a good number of December grads that will be looking for a job this time of year. I don't think a district would have to resort to someone resigning mid-year. I also try to avoid job-hoppers, those who are perpetually unsatisfied.
Nothing I have seen from the OP seems out of the norm. Teaching is hard, colleagues can add to the stress, and you pay for a lot out of pocket. If these few things have made you ask to resign in the middle of the year, you really need to reconsider your decision to become a teacher. If you were interviewing at another school at the beginning of next school year, that resignation would send up a huge red flag and I would definitely get ahold of that director as a reference call. To get a teaching job in the future you would have to rock the interview and have a good explanation for a mid-year resignation. Either that, or take a job at a very poor school in desperate need of teachers.
If you want to teach in the future, you need to toughen up a little, stick out the rest of the year, and try to leave a decent impression on the director, even if you do not plan on using her as a reference. You are setting yourself up with a big handicap for the future just because you don't want to deal with the remainder of the year.
I'm going to take a wild guess though and say that your director is probably not impressed with your job performance up to this point. If your professionalism is beyond question, she would have never brought up the dress comment from a coworker. She probably would have let that slide.
As someone who hires teachers, I do carefully scrutinize past employment. If it didn't work out somewhere else, it probably will not be better with another school. I have an opening now, middle of the year, and will not interview teachers currently in a contract. If they are willing to ditch their current students, that tells me what kind of teacher they are, no matter what the circumstances may be. There are a good number of December grads that will be looking for a job this time of year. I don't think a district would have to resort to someone resigning mid-year. I also try to avoid job-hoppers, those who are perpetually unsatisfied.
Nothing I have seen from the OP seems out of the norm. Teaching is hard, colleagues can add to the stress, and you pay for a lot out of pocket. If these few things have made you ask to resign in the middle of the year, you really need to reconsider your decision to become a teacher. If you were interviewing at another school at the beginning of next school year, that resignation would send up a huge red flag and I would definitely get ahold of that director as a reference call. To get a teaching job in the future you would have to rock the interview and have a good explanation for a mid-year resignation. Either that, or take a job at a very poor school in desperate need of teachers.
If you want to teach in the future, you need to toughen up a little, stick out the rest of the year, and try to leave a decent impression on the director, even if you do not plan on using her as a reference. You are setting yourself up with a big handicap for the future just because you don't want to deal with the remainder of the year.
I'm going to take a wild guess though and say that your director is probably not impressed with your job performance up to this point. If your professionalism is beyond question, she would have never brought up the dress comment from a coworker. She probably would have let that slide.
Great advice, except she already quit,cleared out over the weekend, and brought her daddy to a paycheck dispute!
great advice, except she already quit,cleared out over the weekend, and brought her daddy to a paycheck dispute!
I brought my father as a witness. IF someone claiming that you're doing theft, it is good to bring in a witness. Regardless who the person is.
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