[RANT] How common is this in Australia? (1 Viewer)

[teaaxe]

I'm studying in an Australian international school and my school has basically changed at least half of the year 12 teachers. The teachers who taught my year in year 11 were basically fired/left and now we have to adapt to new teachers in year 12 with only half a year to our HSCs.

Honestly, this has been frustrating me more and more each day as I feel like it's a very big disadvantage to the students in my year and that it was very unprofessional of my school to do so. I've recently received my mark for my first ESL task with the new teacher and I am beyond displeased with my result. It's the same public speaking assignment we did in year 11 as practice and there is no doubt that I have improved in the last 365 days. However, the result that was given to me has shown that I have, apparently, deteriorated since year 11. I have been trying to talk to my English teacher about it because I feel that it is a critical problem if I am now unable to understand what my teacher in school wants out of the subject for me to score BUT we currently do not have a head of the English department because, guess what, my school decided to fire her last year.

Honestly, I am just really really displeased with my school system right now and I just want to clear up any misunderstandings or misinterpretations with my English teacher. I do not doubt her qualification in any way. Any tips and ideas how to do so peacefully?

 

[snowflakeptical]

I'm studying in an Australian international school and my school has basically changed at least half of the year 12 teachers. The teachers who taught my year in year 11 were basically fired/left and now we have to adapt to new teachers in year 12 with only half a year to our HSCs.

Honestly, this has been frustrating me more and more each day as I feel like it's a very big disadvantage to the students in my year and that it was very unprofessional of my school to do so. I've recently received my mark for my first ESL task with the new teacher and I am beyond displeased with my result. It's the same public speaking assignment we did in year 11 as practice and there is no doubt that I have improved in the last 365 days. However, the result that was given to me has shown that I have, apparently, deteriorated since year 11. I have been trying to talk to my English teacher about it because I feel that it is a critical problem if I am now unable to understand what my teacher in school wants out of the subject for me to score BUT we currently do not have a head of the English department because, guess what, my school decided to fire her last year.

Honestly, I am just really really displeased with my school system right now and I just want to clear up any misunderstandings or misinterpretations with my English teacher. I do not doubt her qualification in any way. Any tips and ideas how to do so peacefully?

This is a huge problem- teaching abilities
I know sometimes teachers just leave because of new jobs elsewhere, but fired? (maybe there's a good reason that they're fired)
The funny thing is some teachers stay for the whole time but can't actually teach, which is really unfair
With english teachers, the marking is really subjective. Trial out what she expects + add your own way
I'm not sure if you have the same syllabus, but remember there's always resources outside of school. some teachers aren't that helpful but don't let that affect your studies

 

[teaaxe]

This is a huge problem- teaching abilities
I know sometimes teachers just leave because of new jobs elsewhere, but fired? (maybe there's a good reason that they're fired)
The funny thing is some teachers stay for the whole time but can't actually teach, which is really unfair
With english teachers, the marking is really subjective. Trial out what she expects + add your own way
I'm not sure if you have the same syllabus, but remember there's always resources outside of school. some teachers aren't that helpful but don't let that affect your studies

I'm trying to communicate with her but the criteria she gives is extremely vague. I understand English is a subjective subject (and she says so too) but I can't help feel like she's marking me down due to my choice of text. I'm currently using The Little Prince for the study of discovery and I really really like the text but she seems to think it's a bad text. She won't tell me straight whether she thinks it's bad or not though so it's quite frustrating

And thanks I'm pretty much over it already and just trying to focus on my mid-years next week