CHALLENGES+VIRTUAL+TALK

REVIEW FROM FIRST WEEKEND:

Please list the challenges you face as an educator below:

Nothing like being in the middle of a lesson and instruction and the following things happen. - Student presents you with a pass to go to the restroom and wants you to fill it out now. - An office aid enters the room to get a kid to go see their administrator or counselor. - A office secretary calls into the intercom to locate a student.
 * 1) 1 Interuptions.

Students miss so much school and are unaccountable for what they miss. It becomes our job to re-teach and get the student caught up. That's fine but the students sees nothing wrong with their excessive absences. Many of them are preventable. Family vacations. Monday/Friday seniors. I mean students who don't come to school Monday and Friday period. Students who miss one class a week. Believe me they are out there and the problem really never gets better because they are unaccountable. The teacher is responsible for their success.
 * 1) 2 Attendance

We are expected to teach class in a way that a students could go from one teacher to the next in the same subject and not miss a beat. We need more common planning time to make that a reality. Co-taught classes and teachers need time to plan and rehearse each lesson. I can surely see things go better. Planning for barriers and alternatives to over come them makes sense. To much trouble shooting and band aid jobs are occurring. Classes need long term treatment and dare I say it "cures". Common planning time could gets us there.
 * 1) 3 Planning Time

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