Teachers on here - Please check your work!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even when they’re not remote this happens. Especially when my kid brings home a “Teachers Pay Teachers” packet—you can spot them because of the cutesy fonts they all use.

In normal times, with normal, 5 days/week teaching kids in-person with regular hours, I can accept a few mistakes. But now, with all the added time teachers have to plan, working remotely 3 days/week, this is unacceptable. Especially because the entire grade of teachers are using the same materials, how is nobody catching mistakes, proofreading their own work, etc???

You have no idea how much MORE work and more pressure there is this year than any other year. Just go away.

DP. Understood. Nevertheless, are you accepting more errors from our kids? Like the poster said, a few errors is one thing; but big, multiple ones is another. Sorry there's more pressure on you as a teacher - but it's the nature of your job to have higher expectation regarding such errors.

[Anonymous]

Is it fair to assume nobody here has ever made typos in their own professional work? Add the stress of COVID and I'm surprised there aren't more oversights.

[Anonymous]

Thank God this only happens in Virginia outside of FCPS.

[Anonymous]

I have materials that I’ve created, reviewed and used for years in the classroom. Getting these items onto online platforms means that I’m retyping or copying and pasting and this means more errors than usual. I review but there are a lot of materials and I miss things. It’s better now that I’ve been using the platforms all year, but at the beginning of the year between recreating materials and learning the best ways to deliver them I’m surprised I didn’t make more mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it fair to assume nobody here has ever made typos in their own professional work? Add the stress of COVID and I'm surprised there aren't more oversights.

It isn't about an occasional mistake. It's consistent mistakes and multiple mistakes. As educators, these kinds of mistakes are less acceptable. It's also a reflection of our higher education system producing education professionals; of relying on spellcheck and not doing grammar checks; of pushing quantity over quality; of holding people less accountable. It's a general societal problem; but when it comes to people teaching our children, their job demands higher level of accountability for accuracy - it's what they grade the students on!

[Anonymous]

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Thank you for posting this. I never checked any of my work before and the idea never occurred to me to do so. Now I will since you brought it to the attention of all teachers.



That has been apparent for years. From preschool teachers all the way up through middle school, you can always count on the fact that communications from teachers will be littered with grammar errors. For some reason, teachers have a very hard time with to/too/two, there/their/they're, etc. And in the digital age where Spellcheck is literally underlining your errors in red, there's just no excuse.

The PP was being sarcastic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blame the school district for not purchasing curriculum that has textbook, workbook, teachers’ guide, and assessment.
Instead teachers have to create things from scratch or end up purchasing teachers pay teachers worksheets.

Yes, I think this is one of the biggest issue with our school district.

WTF - no need for every single teacher to reinvent the wheel every year.

This is my biggest peeve about our school system (FCPS, but I read this forum as well to see how APS and LCPS are doing!) Why, oh why, does each teacher have to do this? I don't understand the logic. Is it the equivalent of grocery stores replacing check-out people with self-check systems, outsourcing the cost/salaries? In the case of schools, outsourcing the cost of materials to each teacher, knowing that most teachers will work long beyond contract hours?

And why do all the Teachers Pay Teachers materials use Comic Sans font? My 5th grader hates the stuff from there; he complains it is designed for babies with the cutesy fonts and characters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blame the school district for not purchasing curriculum that has textbook, workbook, teachers’ guide, and assessment.
Instead teachers have to create things from scratch or end up purchasing teachers pay teachers worksheets.

Yes, I think this is one of the biggest issue with our school district.

WTF - no need for every single teacher to reinvent the wheel every year.

This is my biggest peeve about our school system (FCPS, but I read this forum as well to see how APS and LCPS are doing!) Why, oh why, does each teacher have to do this? I don't understand the logic. Is it the equivalent of grocery stores replacing check-out people with self-check systems, outsourcing the cost/salaries? In the case of schools, outsourcing the cost of materials to each teacher, knowing that most teachers will work long beyond contract hours?

And why do all the Teachers Pay Teachers materials use Comic Sans font? My 5th grader hates the stuff from there; he complains it is designed for babies with the cutesy fonts and characters.

It sounds like your need to explain to your 5th grader that Comic Sans font was NOT designed for babies. Babies can't read.

[Anonymous]

Why does all the TPT stuff come in stupid fonts? Can anyone explain it? I guess as a parent it makes it easy to recognize what crap is from there but I don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does all the TPT stuff come in stupid fonts? Can anyone explain it? I guess as a parent it makes it easy to recognize what crap is from there but I don’t get it.

A lot of those “stupid fonts” are sans sarif fonts (like the hated comic sans!) which are found to be easier to read for kids with disabilities or who are learning to read. (There are other choices than comic sans, though, people!).
http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/sites/default/files/good_fonts_for_dyslexia_study.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it fair to assume nobody here has ever made typos in their own professional work? Add the stress of COVID and I'm surprised there aren't more oversights.

It isn't about an occasional mistake. It's consistent mistakes and multiple mistakes. As educators, these kinds of mistakes are less acceptable. It's also a reflection of our higher education system producing education professionals; of relying on spellcheck and not doing grammar checks; of pushing quantity over quality; of holding people less accountable. It's a general societal problem; but when it comes to people teaching our children, their job demands higher level of accountability for accuracy - it's what they grade the students on!

And we see all those same mistakes on DCUM every single day. That just proves the higher education system is horrible across the board, not just with teachers.