I remember a former principal of mine saying that he wanted us to turn in our lessons plans to him each week, and that he expected them to be detailed enough that he could hand them to a substitute and have them carried out in the event of an unexpected accident. What an asshole. It didn't take long for us to realize that he could never read that amount of material (even to "spot check" it) and to use the copy and paste feature of our word processing tools liberally. He only seemed to check on those teachers he had a grudge against anyway.
Now, I try to plan out of the entire year when I get a course. When I taught college courses, this was a requirement as everything had to be in the syllabus on day one (although, semesters usually only included 15 three-hour classes). However, it was my mentor teacher during my student teaching who showed me the benefit of seeing the larger picture, and especially in getting that larger picture into the hands of the students. Granted, she was a thirty year veteran who had taught the same classes for decades. My teaching career has never seen that kind of stability.
Last week, I finally managed to get most of my plans done for the rest of the school year. I'm not even close to getting the assignments into Canvas and there are some upcoming dates (such as for testing) which are still unknown, but I finally have the whole picture in view. Granted, these are not plans that I could hand to substitute and expect them to carry out; that would take an hour and a half for each day.
Thus, I am beyond furious to hear of some of the laws that some politicians in states (such as Michigan) want to put into place. An entire year of detailed lesson plans available for public view before the school year begins?! A 30 day approval period for making changes to those plans?!
For a 180 day school year, that's 270 uninterrupted hours of work (not counting the time for the earlier preparation) based on my day today. What a bunch of assholes!