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Public School teachers -
So what's the deal with being audited in Public Schools?

Most of my classes are part of an after school program. I'm required to follow a strict syllabus (a series of books already planned out) and feel that my lesson plans are such a waste of time. I already know what we're going to do!

As for the morning classes, the homeroom teachers never even look at the syllabus. Whenever I hand it to them, they just fold it up or use it as scrap paper.

So how much time and effort do you put into lesson plans? I literally just type down random stuff from the book, and it's done. I've been here for 7 months and feel really burnt out on lesson plans. I have stacks of them just sitting there, never being looked at.

So what's the deal with audits? Should I stop putting so much time into the plans? I want to write in the middle of one "Is anybody reading this?"

My friend got audited once, and said the guy looked at his lesson plans for about 2 seconds and said "Okay" in broken English. Any advice would be great.

[blackjack]

I work for an afterschool programme in a public school. We follow the books completely and I prepare a rough lesson plan for myself, however the school wants proper lessons plans in case of an audit. My boss prepares massive stacks of lesson plans for my school and the other schools he manages (i'm talking hundreds of pages here). I was leafing through and noticed that while the cover page for each level was different, most of the other pages where identical. I asked him about it and he said he just copies and pastes and changes a few random pages.

This has been going on for three years and passed an audit last year

The only use the lesson plans are, are for yourself, and if you don't get to run the class then they are a complete waste of time

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Yeah, I hear you. I waste hours of my life scribbling down things I don't need to. Feels like high school! I'm going to start loosening up I think. Just make them look all pretty is the key I guess.

[Murakano]

[tenchu77491]

I work in 2 public after school programs. No lesson plans are required.

The only time I ever planned a lesson was a week before an 'open class'. In which case the main school's English teacher wanted a copy of the plan so she could double check it. Then we prepped a week ahead of time before the open class.

I have never wrote a lesson plan except that one time. It's been about 6 months now.