In his fourth year in the classroom, James De Roche had his best year ever teaching ninth- and 10th-grade English at a north Denver high school. He explains why he quit teaching.
Rick Young taught history at a small alternative public high school outside Denver for 25 years. He decided to leave teaching in 2016. Paperwork — time-consuming rules for writing lesson plans — drove him out, he told NPR.
He had to write lesson plans to that showed “his desired results and how students will be assessed, and finally explaining how he will provide learning experiences and opportunities for practice and application,” writes Jenny Brundin. In addition, he had to explain how the lesson matched the Colorado Academic Standards and focused on a “21st century skill,” such as “civic responsibility, financial literacy, global awareness, health and wellness, problem solving, resiliency and systems thinking.”
From Joanne Jacobs