Lesson Plans

  I decided to write about lesson plans and as I think about what I am going to write I notice that many times when I blog I often complain!  And unfortunately I'm going to do that again today!

  I haven't had much experience with writing lesson plans, except for the ones that I have needed to hand in for my classes.  But my fiance is a teacher and I see the time and effort she puts in for her lesson plans and I find it funny that all that time goes into something to really just please the administration.  I agree with the fact that every teacher must be following a plan with an objective and the NJ standards.  But my fiances school is being assessed by some organization (QSAC i think she said) so she and the other teachers have to change their lesson format to include many different items.  She must include the standard, objective, essential question, activities, and assessment..................all in one of those little lesson plan boxes!   I find it funny because we all know that most teachers do not teach with their lesson plan book on their lap, so why must we write step by step instructions?  It's almost a waste of time.  I think that something needs to be done to lessen up on the lesson plans.  It does not have to be bare bones, but i think its nuts spending more time on writing the lesson plans than the actual lesson?  I know it wont probably always be like this, and still its my fiances second year, but I truly know what she means now when she says " Just because teachers have the summers off, doesn't mean they work any less."  Writing lesson plans is proof of this.