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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How draining it is. Physically and mentally. I block out how awful the beginning of the year is.[b] It is very overwhelming and it really doesn't get better the longer you do it. They just keep dumping more and more on our plates. [/b]I won't be able to do my normal end of the year paperwork this year so that will be one more huge pile waiting for me come August/September. [/quote]

This worries me.  Do you find that as you get your lesson plans established things get easier?  What worries me is that admin can switch you to another grade anytime they want and it's like starting out at ground zero again.  Does it become considerably less time consuming if you get to stay at the same grade/subject for a number of years? [/quote]

I wrote about how draining it is. I’m an ESOL teacher so it it rare to teach the same grade levels each year. We are put in the grade levels where we are needed most. Every few years something about the curriculum changes so there’s that too. Each new group of students is different so you can’t  really just recycle last year’s lesson plans. One of my grade level’s caseload was huge this year. Huge and very low. I spent much more time on the basics. The year before was a small but much higher group who could mostly read at or near grade level. Different focuses meant different lesson plans.[/quote]

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