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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. I’d settle for just removing most of the BS crap we are expected to do that’s doesn’t involve teaching. All of these extras take a ton of time away from planning and grading. If my one planning periods is fine due to meetings, data entry, etc, that means I either don’t plan like I want to or stay up late planning. I don’t get paid enough to do work at home. All of these extras come from people who are not teachers. Teachers aren’t office workers who have all day to crunch numbers. We write and perform many plays each day. If I’m expected to attend meetings and enter data during my planning, my students suffer for it. I got zero grading done last week. All of my planning periods were taken up by meetings. [/quote]

I’m turning in my retirement notice after Thanksgiving. I’ll retire 3 years earlier than I had planned a few years ago. I just stress too much over all that is expected that I don’t get done. Just planning for one day:
*Morning Meeting
*Math (Number sense lesson, focus lesson, stations, small group while trying to manage behaviors of those not in the group)
*Intervention block (Intervention group and managing behaviors of those not in the group. By the end of this block some students have spent 50 minutes straight hopefully working independently while I’m with groups.)
*Word study
*Reading (Focus lesson, small groups)
*Writing (Focus lesson, hold writing conferences)
*Science or social studies

A minimum of 2/5 of our planning time is spent in meetings each week which seldom results in any accomplished planning. I’m literally planning next day details at night. Who needs phonics work? Who needs phonemic awareness? Which students need practice with number and operations skills? Which lessons and materials do I need for those groups? Where do I find those lessons and materials? What is my plan for the 3 students having difficulty self regulating? What is my plan to support the students who are most affected by the students having difficulty managing their behaviors? What are my plans to support all of the various academic needs that they are perceived to have based on the screeners? How can I better manage the 20 students while they are not with me in small group? That pile of papers sitting on my floor at home? I’ll get to those later (rinse and repeat). I need to remember to do the assigned online trainings at some point.

Add in conferences at the beginning of the year and end of first quarter, staff meetings, in-person PD, emails, and any other number of tasks.[/quote]

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