On Text Complexity and the Long Run Calculus of Teaching

Every teacher faces some version of this challenge: How do I balance short run with long run? How do I balance doing what will make my students enjoy and engage in my class (and not incidentally make my class easier to teach and therefore my job easier) on one hand with what will prepare them to succeed when they pay the piper five years after they leave my classroom on the other (that’s the long run incentive). All the calculus is stacked towards skewing over time towards the short run. Without some other incentive only a massive act of will that few can sustain preserves ideal long run decision-making.

Why de-emphasizing complex text is a bad decision and other long-run considerations.

https://teachlikeachampion.com/blog/text-complexity-long-run-calculus-teachers/