Teacher salaries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ Gatehouse pays good money to former teachers to create curriculum by subject, as I understand.. Why aren’t you using these?

This is sarcasm, isn't it?

Have you ever seen the mediocrity that comes out of Gatehouse? I would *never* trust their lesson plans, if they even exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ Gatehouse pays good money to former teachers to create curriculum by subject, as I understand.. Why aren’t you using these?

This is sarcasm, isn't it?

Have you ever seen the mediocrity that comes out of Gatehouse? I would *never* trust their lesson plans, if they even exist.

Shi* rises to the top. Bad principal's get "promoted" to Gatehouse. Everyone else is so out of touch with actual teaching. The lessons they make are comical. FCPS has way to many "teaching" positions for people who don't actually teach. Biggest waste of county money by far is Gatehouse and instructional coaches.

[Anonymous]

^^then it seems the problem of finances is solved. Clean out gatehouse and give teachers bonuses with that new found money. As for lesson planning and staying late - it seems many teachers are just not adequately prepared. I know that some teachers never share their lessons / that’s wrong. That falls on your principal. I DO teach. I have been for over a decade. I share my semester lesson plans - broken down by week - with anyone and everyone. No need to make a new teacher struggle, stay late, and burn out. Seasoned teachers NEED to share, but most DO NOT, it seems!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ Gatehouse pays good money to former teachers to create curriculum by subject, as I understand.. Why aren’t you using these?

This is sarcasm, isn't it?

Have you ever seen the mediocrity that comes out of Gatehouse? I would *never* trust their lesson plans, if they even exist.

Shi* rises to the top. Bad principal's get "promoted" to Gatehouse. Everyone else is so out of touch with actual teaching. The lessons they make are comical. FCPS has way to many "teaching" positions for people who don't actually teach. Biggest waste of county money by far is Gatehouse and instructional coaches.

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Why can't more people at fcps call out these "instructional coaches" who do nothing but pull a salary???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^then it seems the problem of finances is solved. Clean out gatehouse and give teachers bonuses with that new found money. As for lesson planning and staying late - it seems many teachers are just not adequately prepared. I know that some teachers never share their lessons / that’s wrong. That falls on your principal. I DO teach. I have been for over a decade. I share my semester lesson plans - broken down by week - with anyone and everyone. No need to make a new teacher struggle, stay late, and burn out. Seasoned teachers NEED to share, but most DO NOT, it seems!

Or put them in an actual class and reduce class sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax Underground has FCPS salaries listed.
Quite a few make 75k+. How is this a bad salary? They teach 3 periods and have a planning period (many teacher friends leave early or go in late - many principals allow such) 180 days a year? I know IT project managers who make the same (with 8 years experience) and work 9-630 with only 2 weeks vacation . I think Ryan and the others in Richmond need to stop acting so entitled. If you don’t want to teach, please quit. I’ll gladly take the career switcher program and take your job. And teachers don’t have shutdowns, yearly RIFs, and staying late as part of the culture.

You have no idea how much work teachers put in at home in the evenings/weekends/breaks. Seriously.

-DD of a teacher whose dining room table was always covered with her papers growing up & rarely remembers her just sitting down & relaxing at night because she was always correcting papers, doing lesson plans, returning parents’ calls/emails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, change careers and be a teacher. Problem solved.

This!

How many teacher hating threads do we need? Don’t bitch — switch!

Oh, but then you’d have to actually work as a teacher & back up your (ignorant) words with your actions & you really know you wouldn’t last a full semester...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ Gatehouse pays good money to former teachers to create curriculum by subject, as I understand.. Why aren’t you using these?

This is sarcasm, isn't it?

Have you ever seen the mediocrity that comes out of Gatehouse? I would *never* trust their lesson plans, if they even exist.

Shi* rises to the top. Bad principal's get "promoted" to Gatehouse. Everyone else is so out of touch with actual teaching. The lessons they make are comical. FCPS has way to many "teaching" positions for people who don't actually teach. Biggest waste of county money by far is Gatehouse and instructional coaches.

+1000000
Why can't more people at fcps call out these "instructional coaches" who do nothing but pull a salary???

They are just Spies for admin and are trying to boost their resume so they can get the big bucks at Gatehouse.

[Anonymous]

I read Fairfax Underground.................................................................... I stopped reading what you said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly PP. Gone are the days kids step through the doors ready to learn. You know it's bad when you have 4 and 5 year olds swearing at you and when you call home about behavior, parents either don't answer or call back or they tell you it's your problem while he/she is at school.

How do you keep a straight face when a 4/5 year old swears at you? Or take it seriously for that matter, I would be way more concerned about an older child, one who actually knows what the words mean cursing at me. Maybe the problem is expectations placed upon 4/5 years olds. Ready to learn??? Gone are the days when kindergarten was actually fun for 4/5 year olds, what ever happened to singing ABCs and 123, creative movement, story time, snack time and nap time.

I agree that the expectations are very out of line with normal child development. The expectations are fear based instead of based in the reality of what is normal childhood development. When teachers have to evacuate their classroom because a kindergartener has gone crazy and is throwing stuff everywhere while telling you “Don’t effing come closer or I’ll rip your effing head off” I most certainly try to keep my poker face while pushing students out the door. I have at least two students similar to this every year in my kindergarten classroom.

I am sorry but every time I read this I laugh hysterically. So I inappropriate on my part I know... I clearly am not cut out for the classroom!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As for lesson planning and staying late - it seems many teachers are just not adequately prepared. I know that some teachers never share their lessons / that’s wrong. That falls on your principal. I DO teach. I have been for over a decade. I share my semester lesson plans - broken down by week - with anyone and everyone. No need to make a new teacher struggle, stay late, and burn out.

If you're using the same lessons over and over every year with no changes, you may be part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for lesson planning and staying late - it seems many teachers are just not adequately prepared. I know that some teachers never share their lessons / that’s wrong. That falls on your principal. I DO teach. I have been for over a decade. I share my semester lesson plans - broken down by week - with anyone and everyone. No need to make a new teacher struggle, stay late, and burn out.

If you're using the same lessons over and over every year with no changes, you may be part of the problem.

This. The teachers who have every lesson planned out at the beginning of the semester tend to be the Department Chairs who have been in the county forever, think they have awesome lessons, and complain about behavior of students getting worse and worse every year. Great teachers have the semester loosely planned out, know what major assignments they want to give and what standards they want to hit, and then tailor lessons to what their specific students need. The teachers who are most helpful to new teachers are the ones who share their lessons as they go and talk through how they could be modified to fit the new teachers needs. I will never forget my first year teaching and my assignment “mentor” who taught AAP while I taught all Gen Ed sections. The mentor gave me all of his lessons in a binder at the beginning of the quarter and said “good luck.” I ended up befriending a SpEd teacher who coached me through that first year and taught me how to differentiate lessons.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher, I have a real issue with the teachers who proudly say "I have the entire semester with assignments and due dates and test dates already posted." It reveals that that teacher has done NO changing or updating to their curriculum, which should be at least partially revamped each year to stay fresh, and it shows that they are not teaching with the needs and skills of each class in mindI could not POSSIBLY know in August where my kids in any given class would be by even October enough to have their test dates planned out. It passes as organized but it's really just very static and staid teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher, I have a real issue with the teachers who proudly say "I have the entire semester with assignments and due dates and test dates already posted." It reveals that that teacher has done NO changing or updating to their curriculum, which should be at least partially revamped each year to stay fresh, and it shows that they are not teaching with the needs and skills of each class in mindI could not POSSIBLY know in August where my kids in any given class would be by even October enough to have their test dates planned out. It passes as organized but it's really just very static and staid teaching.

I know, right? If you're not reinventing the wheel each year, you're doing it wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, change careers and be a teacher. Problem solved.

This!

How many teacher hating threads do we need? Don’t bitch — switch!

Oh, but then you’d have to actually work as a teacher & back up your (ignorant) words with your actions & you really know you wouldn’t last a full semester...

Many professionals are probably working at least as many hours as you all are if not more, and we aren't under a negotiated contract.