My lesson plans require scripts and time stamps.

I found out at 3:50 pm today that I would be a different school in the district tomorrow.

Education!

No, I did not receive any emails, phone calls, or texts that alluded to this change.

No, I didn't have time today to tell my students that I did not abandon them and that I was reassigned.

No, I didn’t have a choice in terms of what level I would be moved to—I do not teach middle school.

Guess what? I have been reassigned to a middle school.

This follows last week’s disaster. Let me explain:

My lesson plans were not detailed enough, according to the district.

I submitted this last week

You will note that there is a literal script in the lesson plans. An actual script of what I am going to say each and every day.

This is what they asked for.

They want to know what am I going to say, and how long it will take to say the thing, and how long it will take for the students to do their work, and I am to anticipate any issues that they may have, and I have to write down what those might be and then have a plan for each one.

Every week.

So when I submitted these, I got notes back. These lesson plans were still not complete enough, even with all of those things.

I would like to reiterate that the lesson plans that I write each week which lists the curriculum, the standards, the script of what I am going to say, the time stamps of how long it will take to say it, and all of the anticipatory problems of the students included—these lesson plans are not up to par.

I need you to look carefully at the top of the picture. 2/8. 3/8. This means this is the second page and the third page of an eight page lesson plan.

That I write every week.

I then asked for a copy of a lesson plan that they deemed worthy of not needing notes. This was the response:

So….there is no way to get perfect lesson plans.

If a student asked you, “May I have a copy of the correct response for this question?” and you said, “There is no correct response for this type of question because there is always something you can add!” how long do you think your students will feel encouraged? Do you think that’s an answer that makes you feel successful, or maybe one that will force you to work for some ephemeral goal that you can never achieve?

Here is the rest of the response:

This means that this current administrator did not write out the lesson plans when they were a teacher. They did not write the script of what they are going to say. There were no time stamps in the annotated curriculum that they created.

But they expect me to do that and more.

This is why I train new teachers. They need to know that this is not normal, that this is messed up, and that it’s not them—that their perception is spot on.

Contact me.