Thursday, September 15, 2011

Awesome or Weak?

 I hope you will take the time to read past the list below because I still can not believe this true story myself.  It's one of the many, many "crazy" things that continually occur at my job that will never make sense to me.

If you have ever been a teacher, you remember lesson plans.  If not, you can probably figure out what I mean.  At our building lesson plans must include the following:
  • What is the lesson being taught?
  • What are the materials being used with the lesson?
  • Which level of Bloom's does each activity of the lesson demonstrate?
  • Which of Marzano's Strategies are being used in the lesson?
  • What are the objectives for the day?
  • What are the expected student outcomes?
  • How is the lesson differentiated for students of different ability levels?
  • How will the students be assessed?  
  • Etc, Etc, Etc
We have four 5th grade teachers that teach the same subject and they all work together on lesson plans and then one of them types up the lesson plans that all four of them use.  They were given prior approval to do it this way.

An "unnamed" supervisor checks lesson plans every Monday.   The supervisor goes into room A, reads the lesson plans and writes comments like, "Awesome, great job, keep it up".

About two hours later, the same supervisor goes into room B, opens up that teacher's lesson plan binder and writes comments like "Weak, needs improvement".

Remember, the lesson plans are IDENTICAL and aparently the supervisor doesn't even remember reading them earlier in the day!!


    1 comment:

    Jennifer said...

    That's just wrong. Good thing you won't be there much longer :)