I once told my principal, "You don't pay me to blindly follow a manual, you pay me to teach them to read and to love reading." I was a little surprised to hear him say, "You're absolutely right!" I knew he was realistic, but I still thought I'd hear some garble about how we have to "follow the adopted text, blah, blah, blah....." but I didn't. Of course, I knew I couldn't be blatant about it, but I had already begun playing the game. My room looked as though I was following it, but I'd been implementing MOT all year. He couldn't deny that a lesson right from MOT he saw me do with my kids was a right on approach. We are getting a new principal and I asked the old one if he was going to "leave me alone" to do MOT. He said I had nothing to worry about. My point is, some teachers might be surprised to hear that their principal agrees with them on philosophy. When I taught preschool, it was ALL about philosophy. Your opinion on how preschoolers were to be taught was very important. Now, most principals don't care WHAT you think...It's very sad. Debbie
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