I believe you have had this topic before (at least once that I can recall). I appreciate you bringing it up again. It is important. That being said, not a whole lot to add that hasn’t been said already. I think one solution that’s not simple is to start planning, hiring, training teachers for schedules that will accommodate students after x amount of absences in their regular classes without burdening the core teacher to provide plans and planning on their already full schedules. Districts already waste so much money…
If they can’t drive yet and we can’t hold parents accountable, not sure what else….
Yep, a couple years back I wrote up a post on this! For this series, I wanted to sort of balance out the many good things that I try to share out (there is so much good!) by reflecting on 4-5 ongoing challenges that I still find myself weighed down by as a teacher from time to time.
And I do see work being done to try and address it, but repeatedly it feels like the work being down is vastly overwhelmed by the "new normal." Not a problem that teachers can do much to solve, but without question something that impacts teachers all the same.
(And I think my other objection: people who are not in classrooms trying to push through policies, talk about classrooms without any acknowledgment of how their work is responsive to to this "two different classroom" dynamic.)
I believe you have had this topic before (at least once that I can recall). I appreciate you bringing it up again. It is important. That being said, not a whole lot to add that hasn’t been said already. I think one solution that’s not simple is to start planning, hiring, training teachers for schedules that will accommodate students after x amount of absences in their regular classes without burdening the core teacher to provide plans and planning on their already full schedules. Districts already waste so much money…
If they can’t drive yet and we can’t hold parents accountable, not sure what else….
Yep, a couple years back I wrote up a post on this! For this series, I wanted to sort of balance out the many good things that I try to share out (there is so much good!) by reflecting on 4-5 ongoing challenges that I still find myself weighed down by as a teacher from time to time.
And I do see work being done to try and address it, but repeatedly it feels like the work being down is vastly overwhelmed by the "new normal." Not a problem that teachers can do much to solve, but without question something that impacts teachers all the same.
(And I think my other objection: people who are not in classrooms trying to push through policies, talk about classrooms without any acknowledgment of how their work is responsive to to this "two different classroom" dynamic.)
Definitely!