The Other Thing About That Educator That Annoyed Me....Part 2

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So continuing on from my previous post, what really annoyed me was my last day at Prac. I had to do an obstacle course with the children. I wrote it all down step by step and I took photos of each step. (took photos of the equipment outside in order of what I was going to do.) Miss D0uche Nozzle read my plan and wanted me to change it. She wanted me to not use the play equipment, she wanted me to use everything available except the play equipment. Which made it harder as this centre was moving and throwing a lot of their stuff out or moving it to the new location. Anyway, I did the obstacle course. The children loved it so much, they did it over and over again. Then I challenged them and got them to do the course backwards. Climbing, balancing, jumping, hopping, a pattern / sequence. I used whatever I could possible to create this obstacle course. D0uche Nozzle gave me bad feedback. This was literally the conversation: Her: "I don't believe you know what an obstacle course is." Me: "I'm sorry you feel that way but I actually do. I've simulated it 3 times in my class and actually done a few obstacle courses at the other childcare centre and passed." Her: "No, I think you need to research Obstacle Courses for children." Me: "May I ask, what is an obstacle course to you?" Her: "The fact that you're asking me means you don't know what one is." Me: "No, I'm asking your perspective." Her: sigh "Well it should involve climbing, crawling, going over things....fair enough we didn't have the items for you to do more as we are moving but you still could have involved more." ---- (what??) Me: "Well yes I didn't have access to much but it's why I wanted the playground for more challenges but I did incorporate everything you mentioned." Anyway, it kept going in circles and I ended it with "Thank you for your feedback." When I saw my teacher, my teacher read the written feedback and said "Jesus! Danielle, it's ok because I'm your teacher, you've had nothing but positive feedback this whole time and I've been assessing you and you pass, so it's ok." Thankfully my teacher has met this woman during an assessment once and my teacher also stated this woman is quite nasty to talk to. Anyway thank you for reading. I am so glad I am DONE with all that Prac stuff and away from Miss D0uche Nozzle!