Submitted by Jodi (not verified) on March 26, 2008 - 11:18.
This sounds like an amazing place to teach! At my school we have about 40 minutes a week to collaborate, but that time is generally spent scoring the weeks constructed responses and is not often productive. This time would be useful since grade level teachers are expected to teach the same thing in the same way every day at my school. Having time to work together daily would make this expectation much easier.
The video states the students are participating in a recreation block. I am curious to find out exactly what the students are doing. 90 minutes a day is a large chunk of time, although I'm sure 30 minutes of it are used for student lunch. I would like to know how they handle supervision during that 90 minutes.
It was also refreshing to see that teachers are encouraged to attend outside conferences. It is difficult for teachers at my school to go to conferences, mainly because there aren't many in Hawaii and we would need to fly to mainland to attend.
A school where teachers are valued as professionals and treated as such sounds like a dream. If we could all be so lucky!
Time for collaboration
Submitted by Jodi (not verified) on March 26, 2008 - 11:18.
This sounds like an amazing place to teach! At my school we have about 40 minutes a week to collaborate, but that time is generally spent scoring the weeks constructed responses and is not often productive. This time would be useful since grade level teachers are expected to teach the same thing in the same way every day at my school. Having time to work together daily would make this expectation much easier.
The video states the students are participating in a recreation block. I am curious to find out exactly what the students are doing. 90 minutes a day is a large chunk of time, although I'm sure 30 minutes of it are used for student lunch. I would like to know how they handle supervision during that 90 minutes.
It was also refreshing to see that teachers are encouraged to attend outside conferences. It is difficult for teachers at my school to go to conferences, mainly because there aren't many in Hawaii and we would need to fly to mainland to attend.
A school where teachers are valued as professionals and treated as such sounds like a dream. If we could all be so lucky!