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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think people comprehend teaching. It’s like this. I write 9 one-act plays every day for the following day- phonics, reading groups (3), math, math groups (3) science/social studies. Then I perform them. Luckily my planning is at the end of the day so I have time to think how those lessons went and write the next days’s plans. Obviously my 45 minute planning isn’t enough time to write these plans and grade and have IEP/504/data meetings and meet with parents so often the planning is fine around 10pm. Grading happens in the morning before school. I get a 45 minute lunch (now) to decompress. This job is really multiple people’s job. Likening this to a play, I’m the playwright, all of the actors, stagehands, directors, costume people, ushers, head of the house, etc. We all joke we need to hire a secretary since the data entry and testing itself takes a few additional hours each week. It’s exhausting and young adults know they can find easier jobs where they earn much more. [/quote]

Don't teachers recycle their lessons year in/year out?

Why would a teacher need to recreate every single lesson plan, for every single class, year in and year out?[/quote]

Things always change. A teacher may be changing grades, including high school. Even English 9 and English 11 are completely different. Obviously math science and history at the different grade levels are different.

If you do stay in the same grade for multiple years, then the standards often change. And even with all of that the county makes changes to how they want you to teach the standards. In addition, the county pushes down different technology which forces us to change the lessons.

Then, if none of those things change, the kids change. I’ve been teaching for 20 years and I cannot use the lesson plans that I use 20 years ago because the kids’ needs are different.[/quote]

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