As a teacher I sometimes feel like there is a mismatch between the amount of work I do and how that work is counted towards meeting my job requirements.
Like most teachers I'm expected to teach a certain number of courses. But it doesn't matter if it's a course I've taught before, or a totally new course I've developing it's all counted the same.
Designing a new course is much harder and takes much more time than teaching the same thing I taught last year to new students.
So there is a subtile pressure to just teach the same things over and over. Because I've created all of the material, I know how it will work. In terms of time? I'm talking three times more prep to teach something new vs. teaching something old.
Of course I still take on new courses and develop new worksheets, lessons, test, tons of material. But this isn't officially part of my job, I just like teaching. I do the work for the love of the game and because it's more fun being good at your job.
@futurebird thanks for taking on the new classes. Tons of work. Hopefully also tons of reward.
I taught one class per quarter at a community college for several years. Only once did I get to teach a class a second time. Luckily we'd changed CMS so I didn't get to coast as I had to convert the class to the new system ...
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