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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers - what's different now? What can we reach out to the superintendent about to help you?[/quote]

Teaching has been invaded by constant streams of data and people in  charge who come from a business background. Testing is constant now which means constant date for us to go over. That means tons of data meetings we never used to have. That means a lot less time for lesson prep and grading. Grading is an afterthought that needs to be done in your own time.

How can you help? Demand to know how much planning time is taken up by meetings. It’s a lot! I shouldn’t have to call in sick just to get time to grade. Plenty of teachers do it. So if you wonder why your kids’ teachers are out sick a lot, this is one reason why. Also, they send us to a million unnecessary trainings too. In a business, a meeting is part of the job. In teaching, meetings take us away from the job. [/quote]

+1. We are required to create common assessments for our SMARTR goal. We spend our meetings deciding on the goal, writing the assessment, deciding when to give the assessment, giving the assessment, grading the assessment, spending a meeting analyzing the assessment, only to turn around several weeks later to give the mid-year assessment and do it all over again. We spend very little time in our meetings actually collaborating to create better instruction because of the admin assessment requirements and figuring out how to meet the summative/formative split requirements. 
Class sizes have also really impacted my ability to grade. Grading student writing and providing feedback takes time. Going from 25 students in my classes to 30 means an additional 25 students across periods. Assuming 10 minutes of grading per student, those extra students equate to 4 additional hours of grading per assignment I give. [/quote]

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