Our analysis of 2014 teacher survey data,... showed that 50 percent of eighth grade teachers reported spending 3 to 5 hours per week
of classroom instruction time on social studies....
But despite the fact that oral language is such an important form of communication, schools tend to spend
little classroom instruction time helping English language learners develop their English speaking and listening skills.
But not all tests produce reliable or actionable insights, and the hours - or even days - long process can be self - defeating, draining students and encroaching on
valuable classroom instruction time.
1) Warm - ups: Teachers utilize the first 10 to 20 minutes
of classroom instruction time (often used by teachers as «warm - up» time) to present two questions or problems per day that focus on the key concepts as identified by the teachers.
Teachers have been calling attention to the problem of overtesting in public schools for years, and this weekend the Obama administration finally responded by releasing a plan to reduce testing, saying no more than two percent of
classroom instruction time should be spent on tests.
As I've already mentioned,
classroom instruction time is finite.
When students do need a helping hand, Evo SEL gives you actionable data and interventions for both enrichment and
classroom instruction time.