As we sit here doing the NWEA test and they slowly lose their minds as I type this. Perfect timing!!!

The teacher across the hall is having the students copy information from a power point on to their copy of a "Workbook" - but there's no work happening... they are just copying. Drives me nuts.

This is the single biggest peeve of mine. Allowing teachers to be packet givers and worksheet warriors is a travesty.

If anything comes from the "hold schools accountable" movement, it should be a demand for quality teachers in every classroom.

Nancy Flanagan: In Defense Of (Gulp) Packets. Worksheets, Too. bit.ly/13YMo9E by nancyflanagan >Interesting take.

AndyCT: I agree. It drives me nuts that my good friend is a paper pusher and is scared to move away from that kind of teaching.. I think that's the key, some teachers are comfortable pushing paper.

If all you do is what is comfortable for you and not what is best for students, it's time to find another profession. You aren't helping kids by being comfortable.

whether or not something is on paper or on computer or on something else, if it is low grade "make work" work, it's mind numbing, not mind inspiring.

a good teacher will be eaten up by a bad system.....we need to change "school"

AndyCT: well said. I can't agree more. Interesting story out orchestra teacher had to try a new teaching method due to district wants and the lesson

Failed miserably. She said in our review session that it was good for the kids to see her failure and that learning is a process that is sometime uncomfortable. But it's okay to try new things.