This is a new post about Management of Educationnal staff at TIS.
Its objective is to understand, share, discuss, monitor, react, propose solutions to ensure a better education to our children.
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This is a very good idea and I'm sure we all appreciate open debates that are really missing at TIS. I have heard this week many rumors and have seen teachers moved from one class to another, leaving the kids waiting to know what will happen next. I guess this is a very uncomfortable situation for them. What TIS administration is doing to keep as much as qualified teachers within school to ensure each class is taken care of?
What a good initiative - Thanks to the parents' assoc.
I hope that the Forum can also be used to share information, from the School Administration and the Advisory Committee.
Could I suggest that we start a thread specifically on the new school facility. The parent body, as a whole, has received no information on the planning and progress towards a new school site. Could we have some information in public on progress? Thanks, Marcella Gange
Thank you Moderator for this fine initiative.
Our family (what's left of it) would love to remain in Albania for another couple years, but we've been disappointed in the school atmosphere. We can easily overlook the facilities and QSI philosophies that are incompatible with the rest of the world, because the high quality of the teaching staff has outweighed all the other weaknesses of TIS.
However, the teaching staff does not feel supported or respected. Worse, the atmosphere is always tense and paranoid. The Director seems genuinely surprised that the staff doesn't seem to buy-in and put the school's needs above their own. But why should the teachers, or parents, care about QSI or TIS needs when there is such a blatant disrespect in the other direction?
Last Fall, I took my concerns to the administration about the imminent departure of the teachers before '10/'11, I was informed that it was nothing to worry about because Albania was an easy post to fill, and that this staff was unaccustomed to the work demands of international teaching and simply unhappy with their own lives.
The administration's viewpoint is that there has become a critical mass of bad-attitude, "spoiled" teachers and parents, and that if the entire teaching staff is replaced the problems will resolve.
I would attribute all the successes of my children at TIS to the finest teachers I have ever had the privilege of knowing. I give all the credit to the teachers, who have all been deeply committed to my child's best interest, despite suffering in a hostile, paranoid, and disrespectful workplace environment.
I am disappointed that QSI would choose to support one director and disrespect an entire staff of the highest quality teachers by blaming them and saying that they are easily replaceable.
So the sad result is that my family will probably leave a great job and happy home in Albania due to the loss of TIS teachers and the insensitivity of the QSI Administration. I will never consider moving to another country in which QSI is the only educational option. I will recommend against agencies sending families to posts where QSI has a monopoly on expat education.
I would like to reiterate that the latest issues about mid year teaching staff reassignments is only the most recent of a consistent pattern over several years at TIS. The bottom line is probably not who is teaching which class in January, but it's the last straw that broke the patience of the parents.
Thanks for providing a podium from which I can voice my experiences.
Mary Denham
If i was the manager of an office and had 90 % turnover I would never be able to include that 90% are wrong and that I am supremely right. Turnover of my staff would be a performance indicator to my boss that I am not doing something to create the right work environment. I am very sad to see so many teachers go and to see such a poor environment for them in class and at home. It is sad.
First, I would like to thank who ever established this Blog. It's about time that parents & teachers will be able to spread their concerns regarding QSI & TIS.
For me one of the big advanteges of living abroad is being able to send my kids to a private american school.Unfortunately, TIS is all about "how to save money", and I'm soooo disapointed.
Like many parents, I'll never even consider moving to a country, in which I can find QSI schools only!
TIS is facing a very delicate situation, nothing mentionned in the TIS newsletter.
but:
Regards,
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Quality Schools International
Communications and relationships are the keys to success!!!!
that's a good one'
Communications and relationships are the keys to success!!!! (this is on the emails frmo QSI)
This is just so sad it is funny. I am not trying to be impolite or rude, but communcations is almost 80 per cent of QSI problem. Oh, and the crummy facilities, and uhm, switching teachers mid=year, and uhm the death trap playground, and the great traffic flow at 7:50 and 3:00 pm, and the discoutn lunhces, and the great morale on all sides==and the discount tuition. If it were not for the great teachers (accept for the one who was taken away) it is hard to find a positive comment to make. How sad. I would love to be able to boast on my school.
The positive comments about the teachers are very much appreciated. Teachers at TIS fight an uphill battle every day--for basic classroom supplies, personal leave time, administrative support--the list is endless. I've taught for many years in public, parochial and independent schools all across America and in other countries. I have never been treated so badly as I have at TIS. I know my feelings are echoed by most of the faculty.
As a former teacher at TIS for two years that LOVED living in Albania, my students, parents, and friends, I am surprised to read that FINALLY some others are "seeing" or vocalizing the problems with QSI! I was "let go" for no apparent reason (or even given one) after teaching in two countries for them with lots of positive feedback from parents and students and not even using one day of sick leave in 5yrs., yet was simply "let go" without any explanation; it was a real slap in the face! I wonder if the administrators and above read what is put here....apparently their treatment of teachers and other school issues is catching up with them!
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