What’s on my mind lately? The amount of stuff I have to do:
- One grade per week per student
- One Common Formative Assessment per class per three weeks
- One Common Summative Assessment per class per grading period
- Contacting all homeroom parents by phone within the next three weeks
- One collaborative team meeting per week
- One grade-level English teacher meeting per week
- One grade-level meeting per week
- Assorted meetings with district personal about various topics
- Assorted 504 and IEP meetings
- Lesson plans in a very detailed required format that include
- Differentiation for ML (multi-lingual) students for each lesson
- Differentiation for special education students for each lesson
- Differentiation for early finishers
- Plans for collaborative teaching with co-teacher in inclusion classes
- Plans for integration of ML strategies
- Data chats with students every Monday
- Faculty or department meeting every other week
- Positive notes to three students each week
- Create a list of every book in my classroom library
- Make publically available every resource I use
And that really doesn’t cover everything — that’s just what I could list off the top of my head.
Is it any wonder so many teachers are burning out?