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We went to NYC for New Years. On our drive up we were shocked to discover there were schools in session! I would be bummed to not have the week between Christmas and new years off.
I wish we could sleep in that late! We have to report to the school by 6:55 and classes start at 7:30.
I have to be at the school by 8:00. Students start coming back to classes at 8:20. I'm only 1.5 miles from the school so it takes me 5 minutes or so to get there.
School officially starts at 8:30 here. But, I teach band before school starting at 7:40. Plus, I have to get my kiddo to her school since we live out of the district. It is 30 minutes to go from my house to her school to my school. And I'm crazy, I work out in the morning.
The classroom teachers are stressing due to state tests coming up and data data data....
I'm only stressing because they keep pulling kids out of my class for test preparation. I lose a week to test prep and then 3 days to the tests themselves during 3rd quarter. There's not much I can do WRT test scores. Our kids now take the PSAT and the SAT which don't even have a science section. The scores will be what they will be. We've been instructed to teach less so we can teach more in depth. We'll see how that works.
The classroom teachers are stressing due to state tests coming up and data data data....
They school year has not been bad so far. The afternoons are much more taxing than the mornings. That's when I get my second class and it's after lunch, so they seem to be more wound up. The days are also very choppy and I have less instruction time this year compared to previous years.
I don't stress over state tests and other than teaching the curriculum we don't do much of what I would consider "test prep".
Student Learning Objectives. Apparently they're on the 3rd iteration in 3 years of how to write them and what needs to be included.
At the beginning of the year you have to predict how much your classes will improve based on a pre-test given the 1st week of school. Then you give them the post-test in March.
"The World History 4th Period class will raise its aggregate score on the post-test by XX% with XX% of the class receiving a grade of C or better for the school year".
And so on.
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