Lesson Plans
Oct. 17th, 2017 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serafina20Ever wonder why you lesson plan? Weeks like this, I do. I generally start lesson planning the Wednesday before. That way, but Friday, I’m done and I don’t have to worry about them over the weekend. This week, I had the bonus of doing sub plans for Thursday and Friday. I got everything done and copied by last Friday and was riding high.
Then, this week happened.
First, my math plans flew out the window. I’d planned to review and test the chapter on Monday and Tuesday, but the review and test weren’t ready. That was fine; there were two lessons in the chapter that weren’t tested, but could be taught. So I taught one. Then, the review and test were ready. That was better, because I could do the review today, test tomorrow, and the sub could do the easy lesson on repeated addition instead of the hard lesson on compensation that I had planned. Perfect. I revamped my plans, went to the sub plans, easy peasy.
Now, tomorrow morning instead of ELA, I’m doing the CPAA test (yeah, not). So that means my ELA plans are pushed back a day. Once again, I’ll have to dive to my sub plans and make adjustments. Only these adjustments will ripple into next week and testing and all that jazz. *sigh* If I just hadn’t done lesson plans, it would have been so much less work. But my district has us turn the lesson plans into the office every Monday, so I have to. I suppose I could have put off the sub planning until this week, but I wanted to make things easier for myself this week. Oh, the irony.
Also, I have noticed that on Tuesdays after our staff meetings I feel crummy and defeated. My solution is that we stop having staff meetings. Think administration will go for it?
Then, this week happened.
First, my math plans flew out the window. I’d planned to review and test the chapter on Monday and Tuesday, but the review and test weren’t ready. That was fine; there were two lessons in the chapter that weren’t tested, but could be taught. So I taught one. Then, the review and test were ready. That was better, because I could do the review today, test tomorrow, and the sub could do the easy lesson on repeated addition instead of the hard lesson on compensation that I had planned. Perfect. I revamped my plans, went to the sub plans, easy peasy.
Now, tomorrow morning instead of ELA, I’m doing the CPAA test (yeah, not). So that means my ELA plans are pushed back a day. Once again, I’ll have to dive to my sub plans and make adjustments. Only these adjustments will ripple into next week and testing and all that jazz. *sigh* If I just hadn’t done lesson plans, it would have been so much less work. But my district has us turn the lesson plans into the office every Monday, so I have to. I suppose I could have put off the sub planning until this week, but I wanted to make things easier for myself this week. Oh, the irony.
Also, I have noticed that on Tuesdays after our staff meetings I feel crummy and defeated. My solution is that we stop having staff meetings. Think administration will go for it?
