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North Dakota
SCHOOL STATE: ___________________________________
Jill Charlebois
COOPERATING TEACHER/MENTOR NAME: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Barbara Appold
GCU FACULTY SUPERVISOR NAME: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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CLINICAL PRACTICE EVALUATION 2S
Evidence
(The GCU Faculty Supervisor should detail the evidence or lack of evidence from the Teacher Candidate in meeting this standard. For lack of evidence, please provide suggestions
for improvement and the actionable steps for growth. )
Ketia completed the STEP requirement.
CLINICAL PRACTICE EVALUATION 2S
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STUDENTS ARE PROVIDED A VOCABULARY SHEET WITH PICTURES THAT DEPICT THE
VOCABULARY WORD.
OF GREAT CONCERN IS AN EMAIL AND A LENGTHY PHONE CALL I HAD WITH KETIA’S
HOST TEACHER. HERE ARE EXCERPTS OF THOSE COMMUNICATIONS.
“I am Ketia François’ cooperating teacher, and there was an incident that I need to inform you of this
evening in which Ketia yelled at me and accused me of acting like a “white queen” and treating her
like a “black slave”.
To give you some background information, Ketia was supposed to have taken over my French III class
last week thereby completely taking over my schedule. Due to COVID-19, we have switched to online
teaching. She should have taken over my classes earlier, but I could tell she was overwhelmed since I
teach so many, so I extended it a bit longer after visiting with her.
We had a school wide meeting Tuesday last week, which Ketia attended, to discuss what to do going
forward and it was decided to work from home and send out emails to start to finalize our 3rd quarter
grades. Since Ketia had been teaching my classes, I had her go through the grades and contact those
students via Canvas, except for French III. I also told her to start thinking about an online lesson we
could put on Canvas for each level in case we would be out of school this coming week as well. Luckily
we have an online component, Canvas, that allows us to seamlessly put everything online and she has
been using it throughout the semester.
We had a virtual conference by department with administration on Friday to discuss this coming week
since it is now also canceled. Ketia was not able to attend by no fault of her own, it was via invite
through Canvas and since she uses my credentials only one of us could attend. I contacted her after
the meeting and let her know that it was expected that we have just one assignment a week for the
students since they have a lot going on. The point is to make things available to them, but not
penalize them if they can’t get it done. I stressed that the assignments should be something fun. We
set up a time to meet virtually on Sunday morning, today, and I again said I wanted to know what
plans she had by then. We discussed a few ideas together and I thought she had a good start on what
to do.
This morning we had a virtual conversation and I was happy I figured out a way for her to join my
department the next time we had our virtual conference so she could participate. We used that
platform to communicate so we could see and hear each other. She only had the plans for French III
done, but not French I or II. I told her I would do the middle school plans since it was a new group
coming in. By 4 this afternoon I texted her asking how the plans for French I and II were coming and
she said she was still working on French III.
This evening around 8 she had the plans and I texted her that I was disappointed that they weren’t
done this morning and it seems that she is scrambling to get things done even though I had told her
about this earlier in the week. She countered with all of the grading she had to do on Canvas and
PowerSchool, and then typed “if you don’t want me to do online, I can contact the school to let them
know.” I assured her that that was not what I meant, I was just trying to level with her and she
needed to learn to prioritize since the grades aren’t due until next Friday.
It started to escalate, she said I was driving her crazy that I was pushing her too much and she was
tired of it. First I said that was unprofessional, then I said that I thought she needed to be pushed and
that she could do it, that I felt I was spoon feeding her too much. (Side note, I think she has only given
me a week’s worth of lesson plans once. Otherwise it has been day by day.)
I could tell texting wasn’t going to go anywhere, so I video called her on WhatsApp to hopefully talk
calmly and work out any miscommunications. She started to actually yell at me. I couldn’t believe it!
What came next was a total slap in the face, she said that I was acting like a “white queen” and she
was my “black slave.” I have never been so insulted or dumbfounded in my life! She went on to yell
at me how nothing is ever good enough for me and how I have yelled at her, I have never raised my
voice to her for the record. I am at a loss as to what to do. There have been a few times I have had to
talk to Ketia about being prepared. Once she said she was stressed about her other classes and I said,
I’m sorry but that is not my concern, you need to prioritize. “There are 100 students depending on
you here, this needs to be your top priority.” I was stern, but never yelled. There have been lessons
that I have tweeked or corrected, but nothing too serious. She also yelled at me that she has visited
with you about how horrible I am. Perhaps you could shed some light? She has always told me how
much she loves me and how lucky she feels to be placed with me. Tonight’s phone conversation came
as a complete shock and I don’t know where to go from here. I still want to help her, but does she
want my help? Does she really think I think of myself as the “white queen”? I don’t have her do any
more than any other student teacher, and in fact I probably have her do less…”
I apologize for the late hour, but I thought you should be aware of the situation. I have never been so
insulted, and to be accused of such a horrid thing as racism and slavery!
The phone call I had with Ketia’s mentor teacher after the above email she mentioned some areas
where improvement is needed:
Classroom management- most often chaos
Needs to work on wait time, and to slow down and be aware of her surroundings
Make sure everyone has a partner when doing group work
Needs to be more reflective of her practice- what works, what doesn’t work, what needs to be
tweaked.
Needs to make lessons more fun
Needs to be professional- Never OK to yell