Completed Courses Must be Renewed By Teachers
In the job description, it is said that teachers must make one lesson per week. However, for teachers that have completed all their lessons, their position has become nothing more than a seat to recline in until they get bored. They refrain from replacing their lessons, one lesson per week, and are allowed to hold the position by doing nothing but the additional complaint.
Even if they have completed their lessons, the rule still holds: “One lesson per week”
It says nowhere in the rules that once their lessons are done, it is done, and they never have to do anything ever again.
When I came back here after four years, there were classes that had not changed a single bit since my departure. This, I believe is very lazy and it shows a lack of care for the position they are in or the students they teach.
Mainly because:
It does not encourage the flow of creativity from writers.
It does not allow graduated students’ alts to take different lessons, and they repeat the same assignments they did seven years ago.
When a person who is on hiatus returns, they are greeted with the same classes.
It does not allow new people to take the post with their own ideas and concepts.
It allows some teachers to have more than two grad jobs.
It feels lazy.
It does not allow variety in lessons.
It makes us have to wait until the teaching chair they sit in becomes uncomfortable and they finally let someone else have the job.
My Personal Preference: I have been doing the same lessons for four years on a variety of classes until I have basically memorized the questions and the stories. I would like to see that change.
I would like teachers with completed classes to be held to the same standards as newer teachers who are still making one lesson per week and be required to replace their old lessons with new ones.
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Vera LaKulina
Jul 10
When I held a teacher job, I would work very efficiently, as in I did an entire year in 1 week, then spent 1 week planning out my other years roughly, and then spent my week 3 doing a full year again - to me, this would feel like a punishment if that then only counted as one. If they instead count individually, that would then be 70 lessons (+ exams, but let’s ignore them for now) if it is a class you can take for all 7 years, or roughly 1,35 years. So, should the lazy teacher be rewarded with only having to renew every year, while ‘I’ would be punished by having to redo them every 10 weeks (giving time for pauses in between here too), I feel like that would be a very unfair thing to do, and I personally would feel like my creativity and efficiency would be punished by that.
When that is said, however! I do agree that it is also unfair that they get to just sit back and not really do much indefinitely. I think it would be possible to make a balance in this, but I also feel like it would be hard to do and again punish those teachers that stick with a subject long term. I am of course not a decision maker at all, but I fear that no matter where you place the bar, someone would be unhappy. Furthermore, I also feel like putting THAT much work into site should come with at least some perks. Added to that is also the fact that some students (including myself at times) will have favorite lessons they are looking forward to making again, and then one day they are just gone.
Could a counter suggestion perhaps be that there is a section for extra work sort of like ‘ekstra credit’ that the teacher could then make? That way they can keep making lessons but without having to erase something they put a lot of work into? I don’t know, but I do think this is an important conversation.
Cian Fitzpatrick
Jun 16
Wouldn't it be enough to add or modify new homework tasks from time to time? On our site, hw always consists of at least three different parts. That means each lesson can be approached in at least three completely different ways. Then there’s the user’s perspective. Depending on the house or the student’s personality, the three different homework assignments for each lesson can be approached and structured in completely different ways. The facts remain the same, yes. But the way they’re presented can vary significantly: from an RPG to a poem or a fairy tale. Otherwise, we’d have to constantly rewrite everything: library books, overviews, and resources from the houses. That would also leave the staff short-handed when projects come up. After uploading all their lessons, teachers provide much more support to their ATs and grade more homework. Or they help out in the library with books or lexicon articles.
Perhaps the most important point is that they can help reduce the MoM/HM's workload … So, to me, calling teachers lazy or saying they’re stuck in their jobs doesn’t quite hit the mark. Since many of them have completely rewritten up to 77 lessons and incorporated them into codes, it’s clear that a large part of the work is already done. But many of them revise their lessons regularly anyway. If they have a brilliant idea for a lesson, they rewrite it. Or they add new tasks.