Teaching & Instruction

Build lesson plans aligned to state standards, scope and sequence documents, and curriculum maps. Differentiate materials for advanced, on-level, and intervention students. Create assessments that actually measure what you taught. Spend Sunday nights adapting the textbook because the publisher's pacing guide doesn't match your school calendar. Coordinate with your PLC team to ensure horizontal alignment.

Grade essays, lab reports, math problem sets, projects, and participation. Write feedback that students might actually read. Manage rubrics, grade books, late policies, and the 'I emailed you my assignment' claims. In a class of 150 (secondary) or 25 (elementary across all subjects), grading is easily 10+ hours per week. The feedback you want to give and the feedback you have time to give are never the same.

Try to meet every student where they are — the kid who's two years behind, the one who's bored because they mastered this last month, and the 20 in between. Pull intervention groups, assign extension work, manage RTI tiers. In higher ed, it's office hours, tutoring referrals, and supplemental instruction for gateway courses with a significant share DFW rates.