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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's weird that people think the lack of textbooks says something about the curriculum in FCPS.  I taught there.  It wasn't like, hey we have no books, teach what you want.  It was more like, hey, teach the full SOLs for 4th grade social studies and don't forget all the FCPS POS points, and oh, by the way, we don't have any textbooks or resources for you so you'll have to find all the information online at the VDOE website and then make all your own handouts.  [/quote]

Most teams have a planned year long curriculum already with units and[b] materials and specific lessons they do. They should share it all with the new teachers when they arrive but they often don’t.[/b] Some don’t like to share since they had to create it themselves first and put in the work and time. They feel it is too easy then for the newbie. They want the newbies to pull their weight. The poor new teachers are often left on their own inventing the wheel even though there is an established team.[/quote]

That’s just insane and depressing to read. [/quote]

I don’t find this to be true. I teach third grade and we are constantly developing new lesson or tweaking them. Yes, the units are set by the pacing but I know I spend a lot of time deciding what to do in small reading and math groups in addition to whole group lessons. FCPS does provide some suggestions but we often change or don’t even use those.[/quote]

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