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Lesson planning help made my first teaching year survivable

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I teach Year 5 at a public school in Osaka and this is my second year in the classroom. My first year I slept about five hours a night because I was writing every lesson plan from scratch and translating a lot of material for a handful of students whose home language is not Japanese. This year I have been using an assistant to draft a first version of my weekly plans from the curriculum outline, and then I rewrite them to match my class. The difference is not that the AI is doing my job. The difference is that I am editing rather than inventing, and editing takes about a third of the time. My vice-principal asked me to document how I use the tool so the school could decide what to recommend, and writing that document made me realize how carefully I was already checking outputs against the official curriculum. I am supportive of our ministry taking a measured approach. I think the worst outcome would be blanket bans that push teachers to use personal accounts quietly, where there is no oversight and no professional development. Give us training, give us sanctioned tools, and trust us to keep the craft of teaching at the center. I love this job and I would like to still be doing it in twenty years. The tools are part of why I think I can.
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