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Post by freecharlie on Aug 15, 2023 3:06:57 GMT
I've never had to turn in a lesson plan unless I was being evaluated and they wanted to know what I was teaching so they knew what to look for.
I plan out. In fact, I'll have the first semester semi-planned, but there is no way in hell I'd turn in lesson plans weekly.
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Post by myshelly on Aug 15, 2023 3:11:39 GMT
I said this on the other thread, but I had no idea that not turning in lesson plans was even a thing until I read about it here.
Yes, teachers have to turn in lesson plans.
It is not a new/recent thing here - my mom was a teacher before I was born and had to turn in lesson plans.
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Post by leannec on Aug 15, 2023 3:20:21 GMT
Nope ... I half decide what I am doing before I leave for the day and then narrow it down and write the daily schedule on my whiteboard in the morning for myself and my students ... I love working this way! I know that just wouldn't work for everyone ...
My administration does not have enough hours in the day to look at lesson plans ... I work in a high needs school with many social, economic and behavioural issues ... they have enough other stuff to do ...
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Post by Merge on Aug 15, 2023 3:37:42 GMT
At most of my previous schools, we had to turn in something that basically said what we were working on - an objective. No full plans. I’m hoping it’s the same at this new school but I don’t know yet. Basically I keep a document in the shared drive that shows what each grade level is working on each week. It’s roughly what I’d do for my own planning purposes anyway, so it’s not onerous. Sometimes I add extra details or links but that’s generally as a reminder to myself.
The only school I’ve worked for that required full lesson plans was the first elementary I worked for in 2008-2010.
We did not learn how to write full plans in my music ed program in the early 90s, BTW. I had never heard of Danielson and had a steep learning curve there.
ETA: It would be lovely at this new school if we don't have to write guiding questions on the board each day. The kids don't care and it's just one more thing, you know?
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SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on Aug 15, 2023 3:41:00 GMT
Yes, in my 25 years I’ve never not had to turn them in. However in those 25 years I’m not sure anyone has actually checked them.
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Post by katybee on Aug 15, 2023 3:48:24 GMT
In Texas, we had to have them in our shared drive by Monday morning. I had one principal who would check and email us if they were not there. My most recent TX principal never checked and really didn’t care. It was more of a responsibility to our team—we shared lesson planning duties and counted on each other to have them done.
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Post by fuji on Aug 15, 2023 3:58:17 GMT
Nope. The only time lesson plans are asked about is if there is a sub, and 99.9% of the time, the absent teacher has already taken care of that. If there is a major emergency, our department or members of that PLC come up with a lesson plan.
I would lose my mind if I had to submit weekly lesson plans. I always have a detailed plan so I could do it, but one more obligation would put me over the edge.
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Post by caangel on Aug 15, 2023 4:07:25 GMT
It's been 16 yrs since I've had my own classroom but I never had to hand in plan unless being evaluated. I've been subbing for about 8 yrs all at one school, different district and they don't hand in plans either. My neighbor teaches in a 3rd district that is very low income and they did have to hand in plans and had to follow the district planning guide EXACTLY so that every class was on the same lesson each day. 😵💫
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Post by Lurkingpea on Aug 15, 2023 4:09:52 GMT
Depends on our principal. Some do require them, some don't.
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Post by luckyjune on Aug 15, 2023 5:36:00 GMT
31 years and the only time I turned in a lesson plan was when I was being evaluated. Even that became unnecessary when I became an experienced teacher.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 15, 2023 5:38:58 GMT
No, we didn't. We had to have them available for people to see and we had to have large objectives The Student will be able to... So that I can... I know I have it when... statements for each of the four main subjects. I ran my lesson plans out on sticky notes and just pulled the next week's from a binder that had all of the sticky notes. I updated them each March/April for the next year and it only took me about 3-5 minutes to post them for the week.
Now I see people on Tin Tok using that idea in some form and I was doing it back in the 90's. So much faster and after the initial few hours it took to print off, they saved me hours and hours of planning.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Aug 15, 2023 18:28:39 GMT
We have to turn our lesson plans using Google Drive by Friday afternoon. I am pretty sure my principal never even looks at them. However, as the SPED teacher in the building, I do look at the grade level's plans to make sure what I need to know for the upcoming week.
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Post by gorgeouskid on Aug 15, 2023 19:15:10 GMT
No.
In my previous district there were a couple of years where we had to turn them in and then one other year where they had to be available on your desk when admin did walkthroughs. (I kept mine on a spreadsheet on my computer and they never ever once asked to see them.)
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Post by ellen on Aug 15, 2023 19:24:59 GMT
We did when I first started teaching and it was expected that it just be enough that if we were gone a sub could figure out what was going on. After we had a change in admin, we no longer had to do that. I was in the habit of submitting an outline every Friday for the next week and I continued to do that the rest of my teaching career for my own use. I’d jot down notes on the plans and save them for the next year to use as a general guideline.
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Post by playingcinderella on Aug 16, 2023 0:21:38 GMT
I am expected to have them online for both admin and parents to access. They are very broad and no one really checks them. If I taught a core class that would probably be different.
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Post by Blind Squirrel on Aug 16, 2023 0:52:16 GMT
Previous county; yes. Current county; no (thank goodness).
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Post by psoccer on Aug 16, 2023 0:54:37 GMT
I have them, but I don't turn them in. I could, but haven't been asked.
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Post by misse336 on Aug 16, 2023 0:57:00 GMT
I've worked in 3 districts.
District #1 - Turned in all lesson plans at end of year to go on file (pretty sure no one ever read them!)
District #2 - Had to submit lesson plans for the week to Schoology by 7:50 Monday morning.
District #3 - Have to have lesson plans and admin can request to see them at any time, but don't have to turn them in. Also don't know anyone who has ever been asked for lesson plans by admin. Do have to turn in lesson plans for your yearly formal observations.
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Post by Bobomommy on Aug 16, 2023 1:16:46 GMT
Yes. We have to have a detailed lesson plan for each day, due by Wednesday of the previous week. We also have to produce highly detailed unit plans that include a pre-test, formative assessments, and a post-test.
We do not have books or curriculum, just the state standards and a timeline of when each standard should be taught.
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Post by kluski on Aug 16, 2023 3:37:48 GMT
Nope. I wouldn’t have made it to year 30 if i had to write out plans for my than a formal observation once or twice a year. Even that isn’t anywhere as involved as it once was, more copy and paste these days. My planbook is either blank or says lesson 3 day 4.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Aug 16, 2023 11:35:40 GMT
No, other than when we are being evaluated.
I honestly can’t imagine.
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Post by CeeScraps on Aug 16, 2023 11:40:04 GMT
We had to turn them in for awhile. Our building was so large (125+ teachers) the admin had no time to look through paperwork. So it was dropped.
When I had to turn them in is when I created a spreadsheet for my plans. I did this so I could copy/paste all the stuff that happened on a regular basis. I also got so I used initials for the abbreviations. I had one notebook for reading and the rest of the subjects were in another notebook. This actually worked better than I thought it would. I was able to go back and edit to plan for the following week instead of recreating everything.
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Post by Merge on Aug 16, 2023 12:53:45 GMT
We had to turn them in for awhile. Our building was so large (125+ teachers) the admin had no time to look through paperwork. So it was dropped. When I had to turn them in is when I created a spreadsheet for my plans. I did this so I could copy/paste all the stuff that happened on a regular basis. I also got so I used initials for the abbreviations. I had one notebook for reading and the rest of the subjects were in another notebook. This actually worked better than I thought it would. I was able to go back and edit to plan for the following week instead of recreating everything. I do this, too, with a table in a word doc. And then the following year I can go back to the same week and grade level, and tweak what was there before or change it completely. |
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Post by huskergal on Aug 16, 2023 16:04:18 GMT
Yes. This is my 3rd district. I've turned them in at all 3. I don't know if anyone looks at them. The lesson plan is very basic: Objective, Bell Work, Activities. I have made them better for my use by including links to documents, etc. If I have a sub, I write up elaborate plans. They do not use my lesson plan. I teach 6 week classes so a lot of mine is copying and pasting.
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Post by huskergal on Aug 16, 2023 16:05:02 GMT
Yes. This is my 3rd district. I've turned them in at all 3. I don't know if anyone looks at them. The lesson plan is very basic: Objective, Bell Work, Activities. I have made them better for my use by including links to documents, etc. If I have a sub, I write up elaborate plans. They do not use my lesson plan. I teach 6 week classes so a lot of mine is copying and pasting.
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