Not exact matches
Though I haven't been able to
get an answer from anyone on the exact amount of time allotted for lunch / recess (and I'm told not all classes
get a recess — which is another subject, that I will
get into more on another day), I am being told once a
classroom is scheduled for lunch that they have 20 minutes from there to go through line, eat, clean up, and
get out the
door — which if a teacher is running behind, a student misbehaves, or God forbid it takes 10 minutes to
get through the lunch line, there's a problem.
I drug myself to work yesterday and it suddenly became very apparent to me just how much I do in the morning:
get up, shower, dressed, put on makeup, make breakfast, make my decaf pumpkin spice latte, eat breakfast, pack lunches,
get kids teeth brushed (hubby
got them up, dressed and fed),
get kids shoes and coats on,
get everyone in the car, drive 45 minutes in traffic,
get kids and their stuff out of the car, walk to each kids»
classroom, take out lunches and put in the fridges,
get kids to put their stuff in their cubbies and wash their hands, go back to the car, drive to my office,
get out, walk across the lot, down stairs and through two heavy
doors to my office, and finally sit down.
Classrooms with perfect attendance celebrate with a pizza parties and
get a banner to place over their
classroom door.
Yes, she admitted, she usually
gets her share of literal thinkers whose interpretations begin and end with «The teacher should open the
door to her
classroom so her students can come in.»
And in reality ~ we may not be able to hit a homeroom with every lessonnot everyone has the time or energy to do these kinds of lessons day - in and day - out - but we can focus on implementing these clay - pot lessons more and more ~ until one day ~ students love our
classroom and are lined up at the
door waiting to
get in.
And all of this is before you even
get to the fundamental fact that, when 3.5 million
classroom doors swing shut on a Tuesday morning, those teachers are pretty much free to teach (or not teach) whatever they like, regardless of thunderous commands, incentives, pleadings, and resources from district, state, or Uncle Sam.
No child should
get the
classroom that doesn't go on field trips or practice math or reading in the same way as the
classroom next
door.
It took us awhile to
get there ourselves, but opening your
classroom door to anyone and everyone once you're comfortable with PBL is a powerful tool for continuing the PBL conversation.
That's why it struck me as odd last year when, as my English colleague in the
classroom next
door was completing a poetry unit, I
got the sudden urge to combine poetry writing in my history lessons on the Middle Ages.
I
get a glimpse of the
classroom routines as I stand inside the back
door.
If there isn't one, it's something that teachers and leaders have to build together,
getting past the closed -
door culture which is often inherited in schools: «We're all doing our own thing in our own
classroom.»
After a pre-recorded alarm and message is played from the tannoy, pupils
get under tables, teachers lock
classroom doors, lights are turned off and window shutters pulled down.
Without even entering each other's
classrooms teachers can
get a peek behind the
door by looking at the work that students do there.
The morning of May 19, 2016, teachers, students and administrators entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas to discover that they could not
get into many of the school's outdoor
classrooms after the keyholes of many
doors were filled with a thick super glue (a relative of the highly adhesive liquid nail product).