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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4414097, member: 6696"] The district I'm in is super, super into sticking to the scripted curriculum. It's brutal for teachers. To the point where folks are being docked on evals if they don't have the book open in front of them. 13/24 teachers are new because of this crap and the ridiculously demanding assessment schedule. I'm sitting here getting paid 100k to supports these folks (I'm a dean) and thinking "I would never, ever EVER work here as a teacher." We're basically just hiring a bunch of brand new teachers, beating the snot out of them knowing they're going to quit and rinse and repeat the next year. Our superintendent and curriculum people are hearing this from teachers, department heads, APs and deans like me... they just keep digging their heels in. I genuinely don't see how you can watch over half your department quit year over year (with TERRIBLE test results) and expect that doing the same thing will work. Compare that to when I was teaching HS in a wealthier town. I did whatever I wanted every day all year, basically. We had a curriculum of different resources, standards, scope and sequence, etc. But I could teach what I wanted based on my strengths and the needs of the kids. If my evaluator walked in there was no script to read. I had my objectives for the day, resources, lesson, etc. and I explained afterward how that fit into the broader curriculum. That's how it should be!! [/QUOTE]