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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm on year 6 and just when I thought I hit my stride a year ago, they got rid of our old ESOL curriculum and told to teach what the teachers teach. Um, okay. How about some professional development for that? No, none? My principal keeps switching the grade levels that we teach so we are guaranteed to never get good at any of them. I wonder how they choose the people in charge. Drawing straws? Dartboard? [/quote]

I'm also an ESOL teacher and we haven't had a curriculum for years. We also change grade levels pretty much yearly depending on the master schedule. After all of our entry testing etc. we just figured out our schedules today and will start teaching on Monday, so I have to learn 2 new grade level curricula over the weekend. I spend a ton of money every year buying resources on TpT because we are provided with nothing and need to develop our own lessons that align with the language indicators taught within content. Plus create a curriculum for newcomers every year which needs to be highly differentiated.

What gets me is having to be "on" all the time and having every minute of the day proscribed for me. Last year my lunch was at 10:45 and this year it's at 1:30. I just want to be able to choose when I eat lunch and choose when I can go to the bathroom or make a phone call if necessary. I want to be able to sit down and return an email without having to watch the clock to make sure I'm not late for dismissal duty every day. Or finally sit down to scarf some food at my computer only to be interrupted by a fire drill or a kid who just threw up in the class across the hall and needs to be escorted to the nurse.  Now that I've been teaching for 13 years, I think I'm much better cut out for a job where there's work to be done and as long as I get it done well and have it done before the deadline I can choose when to eat lunch and when to go to the bathroom. Sometimes it feels like I'm in jail when I'm at work. I know that's kind of dramatic, but it's how I feel. [/quote]

20:32 again. I could've written this word for word. Last year, I easily spent $500 on TPT. Four grade levels per day with no curriculum and very few resources.[b] Oh and no common planning time with the classroom teachers[/b]. Ridiculous. I start teaching on Monday too but thankfully this year, I have the same planning time as one of my grade levels so hopefully they will help me with their curriculum. Hardly any of our students tested out last year and the powers that be seem perplexed by this. Hmmmm. Maybe it's because we aren't teaching to our standards anymore. [/quote]

Yes, at my school we are required to plan with the classroom teachers despite lacking a common planning period.  We are just expected to come in early and stay after school to do it.  If co-planning is a job requirement, wouldn't you think the schools should schedule time in your day to do it?[/quote]

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