the lazy teacher

'Lazy teachers' are considered to be a bad thing.

This is from a rather long blog piece:

If you’re going to take on the responsibility of educating, do it with vigor, focus, and commitment. Because if you can’t do that, the students, parents, and world at large won’t shed a tear when ChatGPT replaces you.

Lazy Teachers Are a Problem - by Justin Cottle

That's one, perhaps rather 'lazy', view...

Another view comes from a very popular book: 

Have you ever wondered what would happen in your classroom if you simply stopped teaching? Over the last few decades the demands of countless education initiatives, not to mention the pressures good teachers put on themselves, have seen so much teaching squeezed into our lessons, it must have squeezed out some of the learning. Maybe if we spent a little less time teaching and gave students a little more time to learn, things would be different. Maybe this would allow us more opportunities to build relationships with the class and develop that all-important rapport with the individuals who might just need us most.

The Lazy Teacher's Handbook – New Edition - Crown House Publishing

This is from the author Jim Smith's website:

It is known as the Lazy Way – a philosophy that shifts the emphasis from teaching to learning, as well as shifting the workload from the teacher to the students.

Lazy teacher

Here's a very useful list on how to be a lazy teacher:

10 Things I Learned About Teaching As A Lazy NQT

Here's a nice chatty introduction with some good tips:

It’s time to be The Lazy Teacher – Hardly Hamilton

And here are details of an online course:

Centre for Creative Quality Improvement · Assessment and the Art of Lazy Teaching · Centre for Creative Quality Improvement

Finally, this is from another long blog piece which should stimulate some more thinking about doing more with less:

In friendly conversation, people sometimes ask what I do. When I tell them one of the ways I earn income is by creating and selling lesson plans online, a common response goes something like, “Wow … that seems kind of lazy for the teachers to just buy lesson plans. I always thought that was part of their jobs… but I guess that’s cool you can earn money that way.”

In Defense of the Lazy Teacher - Feel Good Teaching

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