Help!

I service fourteen children that are fully included in general education. I am suppose to be a resource room teacher but I have no classroom. My principal wants me to strictly push in. I work with students in the classroom and pull out for assessments and for small reading groups. I work with five teachers teaching 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Is there anyone else in my situation? My problem is keeping up with lesson plans for each grade. I've created a goals and objectives sheet where I write down what the teachers are teaching that matches the students goals/objectives. I use this as my lesson plan. If someone can send an example of what you use it may make my life easier. The heads of my department and my principal stated they have copies of lesson plans I could look at, but they have not given them to me yet. It's been several weeks. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated on how I can keep lesson plans for fourteen students in different grade levels with different goals.

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Permalink Reply by Cheska Robinson on November 9, 2009 at 12:43am

Yikes! That does sound like a very stressful situation. During my student teaching, I worked with a constructive curricula specialist who did pretty much the same thing you do. Aligning your lesson plans with the teachers without a proper lesson plan format can be a pain. What I've seen her do is have a binder with the following: copies of students' IEPs (so she can check on accommodations and mods), and core curriculum maps or standards for the grades and subjects she's in. Our administration required us to use a standard lesson plan format and teachers were required to upload their weekly lesson plans every Monday on a universal drive. The principal would access the lesson plans and view them on a laptop when he came in for observations. Other teachers could access each other's lesson plans this way too.

I'd suggest talking to your department head or principal again to follow up on those lesson plans. If not at least get those curriculum guides so you know what to expect standards-wise. Sorry I couldn't give more definite help!

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Wylie on November 9, 2009 at 5:36am

We have a teacher like you at our district. She teaches K-6 resource, but out of class. Her lessons are based on IEP goals. This, after all, is why they are staffed for the resource room, so that is the support they should be getting. I wouldn't think she goes into too much detail, but each school will have different standards on what they consider an acceptable amount of detail on lesson plans. I know we are not the strictest on that score. Until you see what others are doing, or what your predecessor did, I would not worry too much about it. Meeting those IEP goals in whatever way you can should be your priority.