Lesson plans

Well today - one month into school - we had a meeting about lesson plans.

The form we are to use is completely incomprehensible. I would love to follow it but no joke, it doesn't flow. So, I will be doing a plan then cutting and pasting to make their form work.

What got me about the meeting was the lecture that we need this because we do not teach in lockstep. OK they worded it more positively than that, something about not being in sync.

Really?

1) we have no book and have had no book for 4 years and will probably never have a book again
2) so, we teach by worksheets - God forbid, we share resources so no 2 of us use the same worksheet.
3) we do not have common planning. Unless you harangue teachers, they do not show up after school - and sometimes haranguing is not enough, and a piece of crap lesson plan format will solve the dysfunction?

But it's ok. We will spend hours adapting to this new format - which cannot use anything from last year's. They tell us we will do all this work this year but will be able to use them next year. Which is the same thing they told us the year before. And the year before. And the year before . . . .

Got to get busy. Thet are due Wednesday.