pillbinge t1_iudnjvi wrote on October 30, 2022 at 3:20 PM

Reply to comment by Maronita2020 in Leominster Math Teacher 10th 11th 12th by Maronita2020

Good fucking luck. Three grades means three different preps. So teachers are evaluated randomly on our ability to teach wildly different courses. Prepare a good geometry lesson but not give enough attention to your pre-Calc? Precisely when admin walks in to evaluate you and tell you what your lessons lack.

This is why teachers are leaving. The only people who'd take that are teachers who want a foot in the door and think they'll be appreciated (they won't be) and those who know it'll at least get them up a grade on the payscale when they leave. If they even keep teaching.

I'd say good luck, but good luck for Leominster here will ruin a teacher. I don't want that.

morgelfy t1_iueclh4 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:09 PM

So fucking true. I was handed a 3rd prep this year One day before classes started. 150 students, senseless weekly meetings about how to provide feedback when I could use the time to .... Provide feedback. I HATE it. But, I've been in for 22 years. Trying to push through so I can have health care in retirement. It's not the students, it's the administration bullshit. Evaluations are the worst too.

pillbinge t1_iufc1kv wrote on October 30, 2022 at 10:05 PM

That's the worst. Meeting about how to do something instead of giving people time to do something. I'm convinced that's the most vicious, real form of bureaucracy there is. So many meetings about so many things that don't matter - probably to keep teachers from just preparing better so that they're better at their jobs.

That's the big thing at my previous school. We had advisory, like every other school I know of, but it was always better used for just giving kids time to do work. Projects and other bullshit occupied time, but the mundane, lay-of-the-land solution was "give people time to do what they need". Always bothered me.