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Procrastination
Right now I need to be writing up my lesson plans for this week. However, my motivation to do so is zero. I have things planned in my own notes, but my program supervisor requires it written up in a specific form every week...for EVERY LESSON. It's just paperwork that I feel is relatively pointless.
Oh well. Anyone got any tips for focusing? Especially since DH isn't here tonight to say, "Jennifer Nicole, do your work!" He'll at least make me feel guilty. lol.
Thanks for letting me vent/distract myself.
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Re: Procrastination
Glad to hear I am not the only one who has to write out lesson plans every week. I am a Reading Specialist and I have to do one lesson, per group, per day. Honestly, all I really need to do is jot down notes for each group each day, but that is not good enough for my principal. Such a pain. So I hear ya!
Sorry, though. I did some yesterday and finished up before making dinner. Good luck!
Sorry to hear you have to turn in all lesson plans
That's pretty frustrating. And very time consuming! I'm student teaching this semester, and my cooperating teacher isn't making me follow any certain format, so that's nice.
When I'm trying to focus on something, I always do the whole work for 20 minutes, take a 5 minute break. But my breaks tend to last a little longer then they're supposed to
Good luck to you!
Huskerfan, I'm student teaching too and my cooperating teacher doesn't care what format I follow either. The guy who evaluates me does, though, so what are you going to do? It helps that my cooperating teacher thinks my supervisor is ridiculous, at least. :-)
So, I was actually pretty productive after I wrote the first post. Let's see if the trend continues...
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I didn't know you were student teaching! We will be able to share stories. I'm just observing at this point, though. I just started last week.
I also have a certain format to follow for my supervisor. I plan to fill that format out only when I know I will be having a visit. That is the only time I have to turn my lesson plans into my supervisor. For all of the other time, I will just use a simplified version. Do you have to submit all of your lesson plans to your supervisor!?
I have a chart that I use - another non-tenured teacher gave it to me and while I HATE filling it out, it's better than having to write out a step-by-step lesson plan. I'm lucky in that my classes only meet every other day, so I only have to do 3 lessons per class per week, but I teach four different preps, so it still sucks.
I think that lesson plans are useful for the first few years that you're teaching, but once you've been teaching the same thing for five or so years they're just annoying paperwork, IMO.
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Saisongbird,
Would you mind sharing your chart? If so I will will PM my email. If not, thats okay!
My second 2 yrs teaching HS were like this - block schedules are so much eaiser to teach, IMO.
I completely agree to the second comment! I feel the same way. Unfortuantely, I left my job before I ever got to the point of not needing any lesson plans (but that's another story for another day!). I was in a school where my AP only asked to see them when she had formally observed and she'd give me a few days to write up something superformal for her files (she liked to look good when the district's math guy would go through her files), so it worked out for all of us, because i hate paper work when i can just make a list and put everything need in my Smartbaord files.
Best of luck to all thsoe student teaching, it's a rough semester/year!
I am a second year teacher, it is my first year in my current school district, and we have to turn in unit plans every two weeks (which is supposed to have biweekly lesson plans attached). My second formal observation by my assistant principal is wednesday and I am currently writing up the pre-observation notes, and my unit plan and bi-weekly lesson plan. SO NERVOUS! I think writing lesson plans really help during student teaching, but after that they are just frivolous paperwork to file away for when the accreditation committee comes in.
I am in an inner city school district and my students do not care to learn... it is frustrating and disheartening, and scary to think about their and our future when they are in charge! I am so overwhelmed with paperwork for the accreditiation committee to come next year, the TEAM (old- BEST portfolio) papers, and preparing lessons, that formulating written unit plans and lesson plans is the least important thing.