Lawmakers already approved in the 2015 - 15 budget an allocation of $ 17.5 million
for additional instructional time; $ 5.5 million for diagnostic and screening tools as well as computer adaptive tests; and $ 3.0 million to hire early literacy coaches.
At a time when some schools are eliminating recess in favor
of additional instructional time, Vialet believes that encouraging healthy play at recess is vital and can contribute to the classroom learning environment.
When working with colleagues and administrators in your school or district to
secure additional instructional time or resources for your students, approach these interactions assuming the best in these «gate keepers,» and remember that collaboration always trumps confrontation.
When additional instructional time is needed beyond the embedded intervention time found in McGraw - Hill My Math and Glencoe Math, Number Worlds offers flexible options up to 60 + minutes.
Budget recommendations so far offer few clues to the financial future of seven P - 12 programs that target support to Kentucky students with distinctive needs: Extended school services programs that
provide additional instructional time outside the regular school day...
A further complication is the possibility of diminishing returns to
additional instructional time.
Teachers were instructed at a faculty meeting to sign up to teach certain sections of Power Hour (Teachers are paid for
that additional instructional time.)
For those who are behind,
additional instructional time is needed so that they can catch up to peers.
But the bulk of
the additional instructional time happened before the 2001 passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, with its new demands for academic progress, and the students who most needed extra time weren't always the ones to get it.