So now it is my first year coaching. I am scaffolding so so so so much for my department.
But let me let you in to the mood of the school.
We have to submit these lesson plans this year that ask a lot. I don't think it is unreasonable, but the requirements have altered since the beginning of the year. For each learning goal we should have a question weighted on the Depth of Knowledge scale. We are required to have one question for each level (4 levels).
We have explicitly state what we are doing for our advanced students and our lower students.
We have to teach in the 5E model (which I have a love hate relationship with).
We have to have a unit learning goal and a concept learning goal.
We have to have a Marzano style scale of understanding that is customized for the learning goal.
And our class periods are 3 minutes shorter this year than last. Which doesn't seem like much at first glance but... Say even if you take out 9 days for half days + an extra 11 for other wasted days (assemblies, etc) that is 3 minutes for 160 class periods. 8 hours of instruction. That is sometimes a entire unit.
So needless to say my department is feeling the stress. And I don't blame them.
Instead I help them. I have created learning goals and gone through each benchmark and gathered what I think are the best resources. I feel like literally you need to now just come up with the questions (which we have a common planning meeting who had that as one of its purposes), tier the activity, and then just type it up to be done.
And then they are still having a hard time.
Which leads me to this - am I doing too much?
