Lesson Plan Turn-in

I just got an email from my principal.  It was a mass email to the entire teaching staff.  There were several bullet points.  One of the points said this:

  • Lesson plans for the week of Oct. 4-8 are due in the principal's mailbox by Tuesday, October 5th.

I have so many issues with this:

  • I keep my lesson plans in a blog.  There is no way to turn them into the principal's mailbox.  I'll gladly write the name of the blog on a piece of paper and put into her box.
  • We are on a strict copy allotment.  Copying my lesson plans will take away from the copies that I am able to make for my students.
  • I have a lesson plan for each day that teach.  However, planning a week at a time doesn't make sense for me.  My plan changes depending on what happens each day.  By Thursday, the plan that I write on Monday is probably going to be useless.  In fact, it would downright confusing if someone brought that plan into my room on Thursday expecting to see that lesson.
  • If I make it very vague and general, perhaps stating a concept for the week, what good is that?  It doesn't tell you anything about how I'm going to teach.

So, do you have to turn in lesson plans? What are your thoughts?  Any tips to make it more worthwhile?

Okay, enough procrastinating.  Off to write a lesson plan...

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