Aree (in Atlanta) in this post sings the common song of many teachers who try to get CI going in environments that depend on the textbook. We really need to come back with some strong advice on this one. Everybody needs to step up with an answer bc this affects so many of us, esp. lone wolves in departments:
I got one for you for the PLC:
So….things have been great. Classes are going well. I am being challenged to ‘feel the burn’ more as you wrote recently. I have been challenged to really move slowly and comprehensibly. I am staying positive. And then I found out in a department meeting that “By the way, you need to be giving the exact same tests as the other language teachers on your grade level.” Then I find out that EVERYONE is giving those tests from the ‘resource book’ for our textbook. Which means I have to now be basing everything I do around that. To make matters even more interesting, I had a colleague tell me that they fired another teacher a few years ago b/c he wasn’t “keeping up” and giving the same exams. 🙂 I invoke the powers of the PLC to give me the ability to make the best of this situation!
Aree
