Problems continue to mount with Sharon, the DEC teacher who has been working with my team. She claims that she felt overwhelmed and a little on the outside of the group. Instead of saying something to any of us, she complained to our supervisors. This is why our observations have been lower than usual due to inability to co-teach. She even continued to complain after another new teacher was brought onto the team and made herself immediately invaluable, which is what Sharon should have done.
I had tried to give Sharon the benefit of the doubt, to the point of doing part of her job by creating a rewording and simplification of the Canterbury Tales unit I created two years ago. Big mistake. This week, I was accused of creating a faulty rewording for Beowulf, a unit I didn't touch. Sharon kept insisting that she didn't do the work on modifying the text for our Special Ed students, and since I had volunteered to do it before on another unit, I must have on this one. Wow, so not only did Sharon admit that she wasn't doing her job, she blamed me for stepping on her toes and doing so badly. Yeah, I'm a little annoyed. The sad thing is that I could easily fix that faulty modification and make a better one. I won't. I'm done creating items that are Sharon's responsibility while I get negative reviews for being mean to her.
The saddest part of this whole mess was that it came a day after I had spent a half hour on the phone with Sharon, checking in with her, making sure she was comfortable with the team, asking about her sick son, the whole thing. Linda had warned me that Sharon was two-faced, but I believed her almost too late. Thankfully, the rest of the team believes that I wasn't responsible for creating the faulty pages.
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