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....
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.