CAHOKIA INTENT TO STRIKE

[AlabamaTimberwolf]

Tell me on the doll where your kindergarten teacher hurt you.

Im a Boomer... Enough said... We know they spoon feed the students... Unbury your head...

 

[AlabamaTimberwolf]

You ok…..

**** yes Im ok... Im not 40 and under needing safe places and binkies...

 

[ramblinman reborn]

I would say required lesson plans are just busy work for teachers and is quite ridiculous. Imagine if you were to hand in a detailed file everyday of what chores you are going to do, how much time to devote to them and then the expected outcomes of said chores.

Unlike household chores, teaching is a profession that is regulated and that directly affects student learning. Required lesson plans are a form of instructional accountability in a system that badly needs same. There is an approved curriculum in each district (and private school), and lesson plans help ensure that the teachers are, in fact, following the curriculum.

Teachers who don't want to submit lesson plans are like:
* Architects who won't draw up blueprints because they have a picture of the building in their heads.
* Coaches who don't generate game plans because they already know the sport and the opponent.
* Airline pilots who refuse to file a flight plan because they have flown the route before.

Lesson plans don’t exist solely for administrators to ensure that the curriculum is being followed. They are also a practical tool for teachers themselves. Plan the work and work the plan is how a lot of work gets done around the world, both in and out of the classroom.

Many years ago, I coached high school soccer. For my own purposes, and not because I was told to do so, I used to create a written plan for each and every practice that described each activity and how many minutes I wanted to devote to it.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Unlike household chores, teaching is a profession that is regulated and that directly affects student learning. Required lesson plans are a form of instructional accountability in a system that badly needs same. There is an approved curriculum in each district (and private school), and lesson plans help ensure that the teachers are, in fact, following the curriculum.

Teachers who don't want to submit lesson plans are like:
* Architects who won't draw up blueprints because they have a picture of the building in their heads.
* Coaches who don't generate game plans because they already know the sport and the opponent.
* Airline pilots who refuse to file a flight plan because they have flown the route before.

Lesson plans don’t exist solely for administrators to ensure that the curriculum is being followed. They are also a practical tool for teachers themselves. Plan the work and work the plan is how a lot of work gets done around the world, both in and out of the classroom.

You should read his follow-up post.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

**** yes Im ok... Im not 40 and under needing safe places and binkies...

**** ok

 

[ramblinman reborn]

You should read his follow-up post.

I did read it, albeit after my response to his original post.

I guess it all boils down to how much schools and teachers value instructional time and if it is valued enough to plan it out on a daily basis.

Obviously, he feels the totality of instructional time over the course of academic quarters, semesters, and years is worth planning out in a curriculum map. My question then is why NOT plan the work and work the plan on a daily basis?

 

[Kevin JCHS 1981]

Unlike household chores, teaching is a profession that is regulated and that directly affects student learning. Required lesson plans are a form of instructional accountability in a system that badly needs same. There is an approved curriculum in each district (and private school), and lesson plans help ensure that the teachers are, in fact, following the curriculum.

Teachers who don't want to submit lesson plans are like:
* Architects who won't draw up blueprints because they have a picture of the building in their heads.
* Coaches who don't generate game plans because they already know the sport and the opponent.
* Airline pilots who refuse to file a flight plan because they have flown the route before.

Lesson plans don’t exist solely for administrators to ensure that the curriculum is being followed. They are also a practical tool for teachers themselves. Plan the work and work the plan is how a lot of work gets done around the world, both in and out of the classroom.

Many years ago, I coached high school soccer. For my own purposes, and not because I was told to do so, I used to create a written plan for each and every practice that described each activity and how many minutes I wanted to devote to it.

The problem I see for teachers using your plan, is a lack of flexibility for the unexpected.
1) the 1 to 3 students that are slow catching on and need more actual teaching
2) the 1 or 2 students who are super smart and very bored
3) the unplanned pep rallies that cancel your class
4) the snow days, rain days, weather days, too hot days, too cold days, flu days, sick days, etc. (the hundred other kind of days they have now.)
5) sick days (student and teacher)
6) Etc. etc.

Maybe your week by week, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute plan was an OVER simplification of how it really works, but all of the unexpected situations are what always separated the Teachers from the "I'm just here for a paycheckers" (AKA spoon feeders).

Maybe having gone to school in the 60's and 70's ruined my opinion of Teaching today. With really smart people sort of winging it, to teach their students, as best they could with their allotted time. And, no 2 classes ever received the exact same teaching lessons due to all the different variables involved.

 

[SouthofI80Fan]

I did read it, albeit after my response to his original post.

I guess it all boils down to how much schools and teachers value instructional time and if it is valued enough to plan it out on a daily basis.

Obviously, he feels the totality of instructional time over the course of academic quarters, semesters, and years is worth planning out in a curriculum map. My question then is why NOT plan the work and work the plan on a daily basis?

Because creating detailed lesson plans is a very time-consuming process. Writing out all of the objectives, intended learning outcomes, aligning with state, federal, and other curriculum standards, the bell-ringer, the procedures, assessing students, and finally the formative assessment. Then, you have to differentiate it for all different levels of students so that really like 2 or 3 different assessments on top of the varied activities. Now, do this 5 or 6 times a day and there is very little time left for teaching.

Creating a curriculum map is also a time-consuming process, but you only do it one-time then use that as the guide for the rest of the semester/year.

Now it's easy to get caught just thinking about HS teachers, but Elementary teachers have it even tougher having to do ALL subject areas other than specials

It is not uncommon for new teachers to have to turn in weekly lesson plans but very few districts would require it by every teacher at every level because who in the hell is even going to look at them?

As a teacher of 28 years, if you want me to turn in daily lesson plans I would definitely be asking for more money.

 

[CoachAgro95]

Im a Boomer... Enough said... We know they spoon feed the students... Unbury your head...

Ah, I see. It must be sunny where you are at. No clouds to yell at today??

 

[SmallSchoolFan]

Both Cahokia and Mahomet reached tentative agreements yesterday.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Both Cahokia and Mahomet reached tentative agreements yesterday.

Like I said earlier, right or wrong, deadlines make things happen.

 

[PowerI66]

FYI, tentative means they still have to vote it through. If @crusader_of_90 was correct in what he previously said about a contract getting voted down, that could, theoretically, happen again. However, it definitely would push back the strike again

 

[crusader_of_90]

Cahokia Heights School District reach deal with teacher union ahead of planned strike!​