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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s awful. Teachers in this country would quit instead and that’s what they are doing. [/quote]

Pretty soon we can turn this job over to ChatGPT and the problem will be solved.[/quote]

They practically have.  All this talk about lengthy lesson plans and such.  I don’t see this.  It’s mostly canned curriculums and “educational” computer games [/quote]

Blame the people in school headquarters who buy these apps and online platforms and then require teachers to use them. In my district, they rank schools based on usage of certain apps. Principals go to meetings where they show these rankings and then they come back to school to make sure we use them at least the minimum amount per week.[/quote]

Not blaming the teachers, just pointing out that not a lot of individual lesson planning and actual teaching is going on.  There is a teaching shortage, but not a teacher shortage [/quote]

Not true. 
“According to the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, research shows that American teachers usually have from three to five hours a week for lesson planning. In many other countries, teachers spend fifteen to twenty-five hours per week on lesson planning.”

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Ok, and since it has been confirmed a lot of the time teachers are using pre generated curriculum they are given and computer games, that isn’t much they need to plan.  Maybe other countries have teachers actually coming up with the material and methods they need to teach. [/quote]

I teacher 3 different classes. 2 of them come with no curriculum, so I have to create it myself. I also work in a private high school that discourages a ton of online work, so most of my students’ work is done on paper. There are no online lessons or games. I used to work in a public school. I was only given a 4-page guide for each quarter. I had to develop the lessons.

Teaching varies widely from school to school. One thing that seems consistent, though, is that teachers are fleeing (and I mean FLEEING) out of the classroom.

Considering the departures we are experiencing, it seems like the majority of teachers feel extremely, extremely overworked. [/quote]

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