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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asking for a colleague who is on the verge of quitting:

Can a MS teacher be forced to teach three preps next year when all other teachers in the same subject are teaching one or two preps? What’s more, one of the three preps is a new course to our school so there is no in-house support. [/quote]
Three preps is not unusual. Out of 18 years teaching in both MS and HS I’ve had 3 preps about 12 times, and almost always was developing curriculum for one of those courses  from scratch by myself.

Usually when one teacher ends up with a significantly higher workload than others in the department, other concessions are made to reduce burden such as not changing rooms or having your prep time in your classroom (not used by another teacher at that time). Maybe those preps are singletons, so you don’t have PLC meetings. Or maybe you get excused from some other duty.

This wouldn’t be something MCEA would get involved with, even if the teacher was a member. A smart principal/department head will work to make conditions acceptable so a teacher they want to keep doesn’t leave. Of course, the flip side is that a good way to make someone you don’t want to voluntarily leave is to give them a schedule they hate.[/quote]

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