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I agree; we do not have enough time.
Which is why each day, each hour, and each minute are critical. There is only one, 27th day of instruction. Once we waste it, we can not get it back. Yet, without fail, the same campus that is most vocal about the lack of time, is the one that wastes the most of it.
How can we complain about time, when we don’t start teaching at full speed on Day 1?
How can we complain about time, when we schedule pep rallies during the instructional day?
How can we complain about time, when we schedule field trips and holiday parties?
How can we complain about time, when we look the other way when Friday becomes “Free Day”?
How can we complain about time, when we know the month of May will be an instructional wasteland?
How can we complain about time, when we give multiple college preparation tests where not one person on the campus analyzes the results and then uses the findings to adjust instruction? After the PSAT, SAT and ACT, we have to ask ourselves are we truly measuring anything or simply taking "feel good" instructional vacations?
It makes it hard to advocate for the profession when we regularly squander the most precious resource we have at our disposal - Time.
Think. Work. Achieve.
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1 comment:
At my school I've had the opportunity of observing many of the teachers - for a brief period of time everyday and most of them that I can see have not wasted any time. They have a strict schdule and they adhere to it as close as possible. I must also say that my school is a magnet school and we have about 580 students. We are very rigorous in our instruction and the students are very academically oriented. Just the other day I went into the main hallway and I saw an entire class standing in line waiting for thier teacher and do you know what they were doing? They were all reading - reading paperback books! Every child there. I was smiling inside when I saw that. I hope your school learns to manage time as well as ours.
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