'Teaching plan'.
No, don't ask what the hell that is, which is the point here. Also, there is another point that is far more useful.
Teaching in public school, I encountered the concept of a 'teaching plan. Supposedly it was a standard format of how you planned your teaching day, with everything you needed on one page to make it happen.
What it REALLY was, no teacher knew. That's because PSU and our Administration changed it by whim every few weeks. Yea, we were required to create teaching plans, but every week the criteria changed at somebodies whim. Either a PSU Workforce Ed 'professor' or an administrator would arbitrarily decide what you did was wrong. Even though you did EXACTLY what they told you the week before.
Yeah, enough of that shit I decided. I came up with 'A Plan'.
I told the Principal I wanted his guidance and experience (BUTTTER) to help me create a teaching plan template I could use in class. No way he could refuse, and he didn't. It was an ego stroke of large proportions. I then put together teaching plans and submitted them for critique. He made suggestions. I thanked him profusely and incorporated them, over and over, till he got tired of it. Then I used THAT as my teaching plan.
He had already approved it, as he had helped design it. NO administrator will EVER admit they did anything wrong, so my teaching plans never once got criticized again.
That lasted the rest of the school year, till he got fired for a little issue involving an extracurricular affair in a public park.
I taught auto-tech in a top tier county-wide technical school. I turned in lesson plans that included field trips to study reptile diseases.... and they were lauded by admin.
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