Working with Teachers - Exploring the Relationship

I was working in a school as a learning support/TA in a yr 5 setting. I was actually being intimidated by the class teacher because she did not like the child I was working with and felt he should not have been in mainstream school. Also made it plainly obvious that she did not like me being there either. Everyday I tried to speak to her about work, planning and was never consulted or even thought of, just threw me in at the deep end to come up with resources out my head in a couple of minutes of walking into the classroom. No meetings, forward planning or resources ever came from the class teacher, just ignored him and me too or just barked out orders to me to go get this or that or do this, in front of the children in the class and showed no respect for me at all. In the end I could no longer work in such uncomfortable conditions , spoke to the head about it and backed it up with a letter . "As the head and deputy was far too busy to deal with my problem". In the end I resigned from the school with a very bad feeling towards this job. Fortunatly I had already worked in a previous school for over 5 yrs with no trouble whatsoever from any of the staff. But if it had been my first position in a school then I would have surely been put off.

You would think teachers would be happy to have some kind of additional help in class. I know in my school they are. However I did have a 'gripe' with one teacher who was job share. She had written something about me in the job share handover book. However the other job share teacher was off sick and a supply was in, so I looked in the book to see if there was anything I should be passing on to the supply teacher. Thats when I found the comment. I was quite upset to say the least and would rather she had spoken to me personnally if she wasn't happy. I asked the other 2 teachers whether they had any problems with my work and both said of course not. I decided to confront the other teacher when she was back in school. The comment I got was that the handover book was personal to her and the other job share teacher and I shouldn't have been reading it. Perhaps she shouldn't have left it lying about. You just can't win sometimes.