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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally love the younger teachers who don’t have children - they are able to put more hours in and plan more creative lessons and don’t have to run out the door when the kids leave.[/quote]

None of the new teachers I know are like this. They’ve grown up with SEL and work life balance and they are the ones most likely to use lots of personal and sick days to achieve this. It’s people my age who fret about taking a day off. [/quote]

Yup here too....but I won't lie these young ones are teaching us all something. Work life balance is important! Our jobs and these disrespectful parents won't care if we stay or leave....why should us older teachers care so much. Long gone are the "do it for the kids" days.[/quote]

I see the same thing. The younger teachers often draw hard lines between work and home life. Many are of the opinion they are paid for certain hours, and they won’t let the job spill into evenings and weekends. If work doesn’t get done at work, then it doesn’t get done.

Frankly, they have a lot to teach the rest of us. We shouldn’t be giving up so much of our own lives to our schools.[/quote]

I don’t see this at all. Example - all the teachers that came to an event held outside school hours were the new teachers at the school.[/quote]

[b] They don't have kids and outside responsibilities so they are able to do this. [/b]

Whoever mentioned the pay is absolutely right. I just finished my 12th year of teaching (I had another career first) and just found out that my college aged son qualified for a Pell Grant (he's going into his sophomore year in college). How in the world does the child of a parent with a career that requires a Master's degree qualify for a Pell Grant? This is how the Dept. of Education describes people who qualify for one. "Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded only to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need." I am grateful for the grant but nobody with a FT job and a Master's degree should fall into this category. His college actually decreased the amount of the grant they gave him so it doesn't actually give us any more aid but that's another story.[/quote]

That’s why I like the younger teachers. I also find they have better lesson plans. Pros and cons to each.[/quote]

How do you know about their lesson plans? [/quote]

Majority of teachers are doing some variation of the county materials. [/quote]

Yeah that was my point. No teachers write lesson plans at this point so the young ones aren’t any better than the old ones. It is all standardized. The PP was just talking smack.[/quote]

Yes, they may not write out full lesson plans but they have created good lessons that they reuse over the years and will write key words in their lesson plan book to remind them of what they do. The good teachers have solid lesson plans.[/quote]

For YEARS of experience and teaching. [/quote]

I tell the new teachers at my school to just do the county lessons and focus on behaviors and surviving the year. Trying to make super detailed lessons for every subject could easily be its own full time job. Pretty much all of that work has to be done outside of school hours.[/quote]

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