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Try out a new marketplace for teachers to buy and sell lessons/materials/resources. Take all of your hard work especially from virtual learning and make some extra money off them. Sellers make 100% profit off anything they sell. This is for a FREE Membership. Type in vipfree in the space that asks “how did you hear about us” on sign up. Lessontrader.com
Take a look at Lessontrader.com. An online marketplace for teachers to buy and sell resources. All of your hard earned work for virtual learning can be posted on lessontrader and make you some extra money! FREE membership with discount code “vipfree”. Once you upload a lesson there is nothing else needed. Just wait and collect once someone buys your stuff.
Win $20 cash. New users welcome. Free membership with discount code “vipfree”. Until Sunday 5:00 pm eastern whatever teacher uploads the most lessons to their teacher store will win $20 cash!! Lessontrader.com is a virtual marketplace for teacher users to buy and sell resources with teacher sellers making 100% profit off anything they sell.
Win $20 cash. New users welcome. Free membership with discount code “vipfree”. Until Sunday 5:00 pm eastern whatever teacher uploads the most lessons to their teacher store will win $20 cash!! Lessontrader.com is a virtual marketplace for teacher users to buy and sell resources with teacher sellers making 100% profit off anything they sell.
Try out a new marketplace for teachers to buy and sell lessons/materials/resources. Take all of your hard work especially from virtual learning and make some extra money off them. Sellers make 100% profit off anything they sell. This is for a FREE Membership. Type in vipfree in the space that asks “how did you hear about us” on sign up. Lessontrader.com
Try out a new marketplace for teachers to buy and sell lessons/materials/resources. Take all of your hard work especially from virtual learning and make some extra money off them. Sellers make 100% profit off anything they sell. This is for a FREE Membership. Type in vipfree in the space that asks “how did you hear about us” on sign up. Lessontrader.com
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We do that too-I am ok with it. If one member is off by a day or two , we are all ok with it.
We are within 1 or 2 days and I'm always the one a day or 2 behind. I'd rather be behind a day or so to let the kids get it then speed thru and the kids get nothing.
I teach high school math. I have had this departmental structure for over 30 years at schools in both TX and AZ. It is fantastic. We discuss common assignments, write common assessments, have common weighting for categories (i.e. tests/daily work/projects/quizzes/finals, have a common final, and have a common calendar. There is room for individualizing presentation but it is GREAT! In states where the gpa and ranking are cut throat (i.e. 95 is worth more gpa points than a 94, etc), it reduces the teacher shopping tremendously. It also helps with parents who say "but you are the only teacher....". We grade homework and daily assignments differently.
In my current school, our department more closely follows the common assignments/tests/etc than other departments. For one course, our team is all on board and has common assignments/etc. For the other course, it is not as structured. For instance, some teachers put a bonus on the test or may give a different project. However, we are very closely aligned. Since I have the most resources and experience of all the team, they usually follow my lead. However, we meet weekly to discuss everything.
There is definitely flexability in this model if you get behind a day or two. It is a lifesaver though!
We slow down and speed up as needed for our team. We work well together.
My PLC "requires" that were on pace for the first two weeks of a semester in case students switch, and set dates for our tests, but otherwise the order and methods don't matter
My Sec III team does that. We are all with in 1-2 days of each other. We are not mandated to do this it just works for us.
I'm in a very small school district. Our admin has been trying to institute PLCs for the last couple of years, but it really just means working with the teachers for middle & high school in the same subject. We can't really be on the same page and even though we have two math teachers at the HS level, we don't even use the same curriculum for the classes we share.
How does that work- using the same curriculum for the classes you share?
Working through a PLC has definite benefits. We plan together, we create our lesson plans together, we organize our assessments together, we even provide tutorial sessions together. We collaborate in creating assessments with our instructional coach. Every Monday
@10:15 we plan. We also share resources and sometimes we demo lessons to show different instructional strategies using the new resources. We even critique digital platforms that we use and share them with other grade levels. We follow the state curriculum. Our PLC works as a PLC should.
Unfortunately teachers, especially the veteran teachers, are not going to want to participate. They support teaching in isolation. With over 20 years teaching middle school math I assure you that is not the better method nor is it best for our students.
But like everything in schools if it is not supported, monitored, and mandated by administration the PLC is going to fail.
We work through PLCs and it works great-common planning, common assessment etc
We have all the concepts that we want to cover and the order in which they are taught but don't stick to a time frame. Every Algebra 2 class I teach has a different flow to the class. In one class I may need to go slower than what the time frame calls for and another class may move a little faster. So I will never force my students to move faster than what the class as a whole can move.