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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The job has changed tremendously over the years. [b]It’s frustrating to receive new mandated curriculum materials each year-many of which aren’t great.[/b] Bad administration can make even the best intentioned teachers hate the job. Very few consequences are in place anymore so some children make it a difficult learning environment for all involved. [/quote]

We are piloting a new curriculum this year. Training by the vendor has been terrible. It's not necessarily their fault, but the curriculum is written for teaching in a vacuum. They're training us to implement it as written, but there are logistical issues that my school district won't acknowledge (we don't have a long enough teaching block for implementing the lessons as written--that we're supposed to be following "with fidelity", the ELD component of the curriculum is supposed to be taught in an entirely separate block than the ELA so that students don't miss any part of the ELA block but my district doesn't allow for that etc).

If we ask too many follow up questions at trainings and don't just accept the vague answers, the district central office staff take notes and then contact principals to tell them that their staff wasn't representing the school well because they asked too many questions. We're all just supposed to smile and nod and pretend that things that make sense on paper (to these people to haven't stepped foot in a school in years) translate to real life classrooms. If you don't pretend there will be consequences.

Then as soon as you feel a certain level of familiarity with a curriculum, the principal decides to shuffle around grade level teams and you're left starting from scratch. [/quote]

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