The options for cuts include «staffing reductions, further increased class sizes, withdrawal of counselling and pastoral services,
modified school hours, reduction in books, IT and equipment».
Not exact matches
There's something universal about the graduate
school experience, something inherent in the type of person who chooses to enroll in this quasi-extension of college, quasi-delayed beginning of Real Life, quasi-job whose
hours are undefined beyond being
modified by the word «many.»
As part of the Top Global Teacher Bloggers from Cathy Rubin's Global Search for Education, this is my answer to this month's question: How could Google's «Genius
hour» model be
modified and utilized in
schools?
We've struggled with this in my small
school environment, because we're all stretched so thin teaching, but this year we've actually
modified our schedule to include several
hours of teacher collaboration time per week.
Because of our limited
school hours, our secondary students are on a
modified block, meaning they attend four one -
hour classes each day.
Many of these summer
hours are spent gathering new materials, taking classes to improve instruction, teaching summer
school, working a second job to stay afloat, reading children's and professional literature, preparing the classroom for a new year,
modifying curriculum to meet the needs of special education students, or dreaming up new ways to reach students.