u/Competitive-Can-51

I’m reposting this because I deleted it but it is bothering me again. My co teacher on Monday decided, during her teaching week, she would no longer be lesson planning. I can’t blame her. She is right. She was promised a raise for lesson planning and they backed out. But they would rather make my job harder than give her a dollar more an hour. Because what did they say when she said this? It’s fine, OP can just do it. OP has been alone before. We can just uh ignore that OP used to stay up until 2 am to get it done before. I went from feeling ahead after just completing my lesson planning for the following week to feeling severely behind.

If our plans weren’t so extensive I think it would be manageable. One lesson for last week required me to spend an hour pre cutting fabric and cardboard into smaller pieces they can cut themselves. Another hour was spent taping together enough sentence strips to make a ten foot timeline. This doesn’t include writing the actual plan in our system or requesting materials you may or may not get. My request to make this work was daily lesson planning time, although I’m sure it will only come for so long before I maybe get an hour a week! I’m not mad at my co teacher, I’m mad that they would rather sacrifice me up for a dollar.

My admin would rather my work double vs give my co-teacher a dollar raise. She is right. I can’t be mad at her she is right to a degree. She became certified with the promise of a raise that never showed up. She decided in that case she will not be lesson planning anymore. The solution was, well we know OP has been alone before, she can just do all of the planning. I can’t. I literally cannot. I used to lesson plan weekly by myself, yes, but I also stayed up until 2 am to do so. It was not healthy. When I returned I put my foot down and said no work outside of work. I am very much so not okay with this change and I need help on how to express this to my admin.

We do not do light lesson planning either. We have 7 content areas and 5 require a different activity daily. I learned this today, on the last day of our work week. Meaning no I’m actually not ahead of lesson planning as I thought I am severely behind. Great. Thanks guys.