Last week, in my grad class called "The Professional SPED Educator," we were required to write eight (8!!!) essays. I thought that was a tough week.This week we had seven (7!) essays but the prof threw in a mid-term exam -- all essay questions. There were five (5 -- F I V E -- 5! 5! 5! 5!) questions.
That makes 12 essays in one week. There are only seven days in a week. Don't college professors realize that? Plus she assigned three chapters to read - another 150 pages. And some kind of form to fill out that I haven't yet even looked at.
One of the questions asked us to design a collaborative teaching model for our school with by-in from all staff members -- as well as design the training program from the model. This was one of the throw-away questions. This could a disertation! It can't be covered in a couple of pages!
Another asked us to interview a consultant in our district and write a detailed overview of his / her training.
Yet another essay must be developed as a group process, including four other team members. The topic: how to provide treatment integrity for a given intervention.
Finally, for this week there is the essay test -- the directions were: write in-depth answers with annotation. Four questions required some creativity but mostly were answerable by doing research from our reading -- with a lot of explanation. But the last question was a case study of a first grader! The kid is six! I work in high school, for pete's sake.
There is still a huge project due at the end of the course. I have an idea in my head about what to write about -- but I can't find any time to even outline my thoughts.
This is simply beyond incredible. This is I M P O S S I B L E.
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And I'll bet the people who came up with all this nonsense don't have a clue what's going on, nor could they jump through the hoops they require others to tackle. I don't consider myself totally stupid, but that topic "Treatment integrity for a given intervention"? What does that have to do with teaching?
Wow. I'm surprised any teachers can be found, if they have to deal with this stuff.
I agree with Donna. What they are having you do does NOT make you a better teacher, which has more to do with strategies and dealing with actual children than just writing a book load of papers. You must be so stressed!!
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