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Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash
Growing up my mother worked a lot over the summer..it may not have been in the classroom teaching but over the summer she had to do all the lesson plans for the following year, do her budget (though that may have been because she was head of department..I just always remember her doing it), prepare her classroom ( with a lot of slave labour from her daughters) and more.
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Education has changed drastically, no longer are teachers in Public School Systems having to put together their own lesson plans, their own budgets, preparing their classrooms, etc. In todays world of Standardized Testing and Political Influences in our school systems, Teachers are having less and less control over what they teach and how they grade. Most teachers are no longer grading their own tests in many of the subjects and for things like term papers they are given specific outlines on how to grade them.
I even remember talking to my girlfriends sister and she was telling me how her school system had completely moved off of hand grading of ALL Tests and Quizzes. That means in Math, Science, Geography, Economics, and any other subject other than English the tests were graded by machines (fill in the bubble A B C D E with a Number 2 Pencil). The English tests/term papers where given strict guidelines on how to place a grade on them direct from the Board of Education.
Lesson Plans created by a teacher in today's world? Think again. Do you really think a school system these days with the Political Influence and Awareness we have would ever let a teacher decide how to structure her lesson plans or how to deliver the information to students? Everything is standardized, teachers get a booklet each year that shows them exactly what to do, what information to give, even gives the teachers the tests themselves. Nothing is left up to the teacher at this point.
Classrooms to prepare? Have you been in a high school lately? Teachers no longer have their own rooms. Each class period the teacher and class is in a different room. Most teachers these days have offices and then carts that they wheel around with their needed supplies. The high school class rooms are pretty much bare rooms used to teach all subjects and have rotating teachers each class period. Students and Teachers move from class room to class room throughout the day.
Jim