As a student I always knew that teachers had to prepare for their classes ahead of time, but I never could figure out when or how they managed to prepare the lessons and teach them. I would see teachers run make copies during class if they ran out, but I never saw my teacher creating the lessons at school.
Now that I have been helping a teacher out, I truly see a vast majority of the preperation that goes into her lessons everyday. Some days during lunch she will finish creating a worksheet and print it off, and then I will run make enough copies for all the teachers how are doing the same lesson at the time. She will have me help create, copy and put together booklets for the science units that are coming up in the following weeks to help save her time so she can have the other lesson materials ready in enough time for the class to start.
When I have come into the classroom in the mornings before the students have arrived I will see the teacher working on a lesson for another class later in the week, and durin the day I see her make notes on a piece of paper and at the end of the day I watch her to back and adjust tre upcoming lesson based on how the students did that day. I have observed that the teachers who have taken the time to get to know their students and how they are doing out more thought into their lesson plans and it really helps lessons run more smoothly, and the content is remembered better by he students. Teachers spend countless hours outside of their classroom creating lessons, grading papers, emailing parents, and making master copies. None of that ends when they get to school, it just continues but they may have help from a copy aid or volunteers to help make their life easier. The proerpstion it takes to help a student succeed can't be done just I the classroom, it takes more time and effort and the teachers that change children's attitude about learning are those who have taken the time to prepare.
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