Stop Making Teachers Turn in Lesson Plans
In this video, Dr. Justin Baeder reiterates his argument that requiring lesson plan submission is an outdated practice that wastes everyone's time.
Key Takeaways
- This practice should end - Collecting lesson plans is compliance theater that doesn't improve instruction
- Visit classrooms instead - Direct observation of teaching is infinitely more valuable than reading plans
- Trust your teachers - Professionals don't need to submit their daily plans for approval
Transcript
Principles, we have got to stop collecting teacher lesson plans.
If you've got 30 teachers teaching five classes, five days a week, that is 750 plans a week to look at.
Way more than you can keep up with, much less provide meaningful feedback on.
If you've got a few people who are not doing what they need to and showing up unprepared, deal with that individually, yes, but we've got to stop burdening everyone with paperwork just to deal with a few individual problems.
So there are alternatives to collecting lesson plans.
If you want six ideas for maintaining a pulse on kind of what's going on in classrooms without making teachers turn in lesson plans, go to principalcenter.com slash lesson plans.