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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom was a teacher at my ES in the early 80s. She walked out the door when the kids left. This was back when there were textbooks and workbooks for everything. She never wrote lesson plans. She taught everything from the teacher’s manual. That’s what they were for! She graded spelling tests on Friday night (I would help her) but that’s the only time she took work home. There was an occasional math or science test to grade. No days spreadsheets to fill out, no data meetings, etc. No retakes to grade. If kids didn’t do their homework, they got a zero. No real parent communication then either except an occasional note home for bad behavior. [/quote]

My mom was an ES teacher through the 80s and 90s and she always stayed late after school. She had books and a manual, but wrote up her own lesson plans and differentiated. Plenty of grading was brought home. She helped kids who were multiple grade levels behind get caught up. Lots of “problem kids” over the years requiring a lot of communication with parents and the principal. Sounds like your mom was either at a really high SES/low needs school or more of the do the bare minimum type. Good teachers have always had a very high workload if their student body was anything other than average or higher than average kids from homes with involved parents and little SES diversity. [/quote]

By your definition I”m a “good” teacher some years and a horrible one others.

I’m also really tired of the value of a teacher’s  worth being tied to how many hours you put in after school.  It is completely ridiculous.  In my work (pre-K/K) the most important part is that I’m not stressed out and can listen and respond to kids to help them progress, not how late I stayed after school. It is a twisted idea to think that staying after school and perhaps being less efficient or have a poorer grasp of the material makes you a better teacher.

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so delusional. do you teach high school?

oh right preK/K. of course you wouldn't need to stay after school.

different expectations for different age groups and different needs.

what material do you have to master other than changing a diaper and leading nap time at the preK/K level? [/quote]

I teach 6th grade and can tell you that those pre-K teachers are some of the hardest working teachers around. They are required to have plans (there’s your differentiation) for EACH student simply because they qualified for pre-K through the county. Feel free to leave your HS job and come on down to the lower grades and maybe it’ll shut you up.[/quote]

Teacher here. Can we not fight among ourselves? We ALL have it very hard in different ways.

It’s bad enough that we get dismissed and disrespected by people outside of our profession as much as we do. Let’s not do it to each other.[/quote]

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