This is a repost to remind us that we do too much. A PLC member sent these and I can’t remember who it was to credit you so thank you whoever you are. We may want to rethink some of this when we look at our next paycheck:
– Promethean board
– managing our school websites with oral reading matched to the story, constant communication with classes
– keeping up with homework
– keeping up with students on plans
– generating stories, working in the novels
– getting the World Language Games going
– creating interesting media rich culture presentations
– finding good songs to sing, teaching sign language
– assessment
– attending to mountains of email
– emailing colleagues/admins/parents and filing the results
– cleaning out the files of stories
– planning lessons for language labs
– cleaning out the files of quizzes
– locating YouTube urls and saving them and updating them
– screening YouTube and other media for objectionable content
– creating PP and SB/Promethean files and maintaining those files
– maintaining photo and image files
– using and maintaining a gradebook system including keeping up to the minute grades
– providing copies to students weekly
– posting them to the district-parent access site
– understanding the ever-changing “files” jpg, MP4
– utilizing some sort of vocal/aural system i.e. Dropbox or Google Voice
– clickers
– ipadish devices
– designing and implementing the district required number of student-computer-use-in-the-grant-funded-computer-lab – lessons per marking period’
– using grade-tracking and evaluation systems (and relearning one every 3 years when the district changes systems)
– creating written reports about the results
– not to mention written reports on exactly how we are using technology for the technology committee
– pointless meetings
– trainings with P.E. teachers
– writing sub plans
– reading the reports of sub plans, which make no sense
– parents nights
– parent phone calls
– coaching
– calling roll
– teaching
– adjunct duty (being at student events because we have to oversee them, not because we want to encourage our – students)
– submit letters every year to justify yearly events that have been approved for years
– honors/AP nights
– oversee students at pep and other assemblies
– proctor standardized testing
– safeguard all the materials for standardized testing
– know procedures for all emergencies (earthquake, fire, intruder, etc.)
– explain emergency procedures to students
– oversee emergency drills
– enforce tardy rules
– enforce cell phone and other devices rules
