Oh my GOODNESS, the minutiae of teaching.
Late start yesterday to go over strategies for teaching sophomores. Not sure if people are going to do them, but we have strategies in place.
Department meeting today. Old books need to go (hello, Ray Bradbury), if kids didn’t do their summer reading work give their name to the RTI coordinator.
Teachers giving summer reading a minimum of points and wondering why kids don’t do it. When you tell us all that a book check and syllabus whatever are combined to be the same points as summer reading, maybe you should reconsider. After all, summer reading is read a book, find an article you can tie in to the book, tie that article in, all why focusing on certain literary aspects of the book. For that, 10 to 15 points, around 1 percent of your semester grade.
Data has been gathered from the bootcamp questions–no one talks of it.
At least 10 emails a day.
Club week, so kids are here, there, everywhere.
Okay, so we’re doing a narrative lesson unit, but kids aren’t writing one. I realize it’s hard to grade papers, but that’s kind of the job title. Peer editing is not a teacher’s guidance.
Meetings for this task force. Meetings for this leadership team.
Crazy idea–maybe less minutiae would give teachers more time to (wait for it) teach their students. Don’t want to sound bitter and old here, because I am always willing to change and update and adapt/adjust, but this week is only three days in and I’m tired.