Friday, October 26, 2012
Blog 2
I have been working along side a teacher that has been teaching for 29 years. She is wonderful and has great ideas to teach children the curriculum. Our curriculum has changed this year and has made a huge stress on teachers that have taught for many years. This teacher also is on the schools intervention team to help students struggling. This is a school wide team with a teacher from every grade level trying to think of ways to improve teaching students and school procedures if needed. She leads the teacher grade level meetings every week and she is in charge of literacy and other teachers are in charge of other areas. In this meeting the teachers discuss how they are teaching different subjects and talk about how to help children struggling. It is a great way for the teachers to find other ways to help their children that may be struggling also. The teacher sends home messages to families in the daily agenda. She types up a weekly newsletter informing parents of the curriculum the children are learning and ways to help at home, also informing of upcoming events they may attend. Parents are always free to call or email her throughout the day if they need to.
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Good for her to run weekly meetings! That's a lot on top of what she is already doing I'm sure. I know that when the curriculum changes it becomes stressful on the teachers as well as the students. Were they stressed out because it was something different and they were use to the way they were doing things? Or were they stressed out because it was adding more work on top of what they already have? At the public school I work at the core standards have changed and many of the teachers are lost as to what to do. Our principal puts so much pressure on them when it comes to lesson plans and the things you have to add to them. I am very nerves about having to do lesson plans.
ReplyDeleteHi Marcie,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you are working with a fantastic teacher. I am interested in knowing if parents are responding with questions and comments to the weekly newsletter? If i may ask, what types of changes are occurring with the curriculum. I know as previously stated, that the school are implementing core curriculum standards this year.
I think anytime change occurs there is always a transition period for staff and students alike. These things take time to work out and it is important that administration to support staff through this process.
Marcie,
ReplyDeleteWhat is your Advocacy Plan about? All schools are required by state and federal laws to identify, provide interventions, and document results of probes (interventions) to give struggling students strategies, reteaching, practice and support prior to moving them through the process of Special Ed. Yes - it is a lot of stress because we as teachers have to make sure we are pulling kids and giving them what they need academically before they fail and end up in sped. What kind of a program are you observing - state run or independent? What age groups of kids are you working with? Did you interview more than more person? What does the facility look like?