WRONG! As EVERY Australian teacher knows The National Australian Curriculum is an urban myth and the above 3 points will take you hours, even days to achieve using current Department processes.
Something that should be sooooo simple has somehow become the most time consuming, complicated, tight undoable knotted process. It’s the ultimate Hot Mess!
Picture this… “A Day in the Life of an everyday teacher going through the REAL life planning process”
(I will warn you it’s not pretty, names and identities have been changed etc… but we all know it’s about me!).
Attempt 1: Use DOTT for Planning (resists the urge to laugh out loud!)
Reality – Turn on computer, enter log on details and wait…While waiting sort out a lost lunch order, clean up something ‘wet’ on the beanbag, book or attend a case conference. Incorrect password… Ring office to reset password… not done it yet so wait some more…Try with new password… incorrect password, walk up to office…Office ladies swamped, walk back to classroom and Abort because kids are due back from specialist teachers!
Attempt 2: Go home and ‘quickly’ sort planning while cooking dinner.
Reality – Go to ACARA website, click around and around and open a zillion (yes a zillion) tabs. Chat to teacher BESTIE who tells you that you’re on the WRONG website!!! Go to the proper website, that actually takes you back to ACARA! Don’t find what you need, start scrolling FaceBook or worse, Pinterest and end up burning dinner!
Attempt 3: Grab 20 mins on Saturday morning.
Reality – Sacrifice family time, get rid of kids & husband. 3 hours later end up with a computer that has frozen because of all the open tabs. RSI & cramping in ‘mouse hand’ knotted shoulders, numb bum, pages of notes on scraps of paper to type up and a stack of irrelevant information from the wrong country! And scrolling Facebook and Pinterest… Family comes home!
Unfortunately Planning and Organising what you need to teach can unfortunately be a nightmare, so that’s why we created our Teacher Planners Australia Tools.