tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903698425036113784.post4432111844851226408..comments2023-09-09T12:04:24.677-04:00Comments on TheWall: "CANDYLAND"Suzie Creamcheesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02956217451062448905noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903698425036113784.post-77088357195681774562007-08-11T12:04:00.000-04:002007-08-11T12:04:00.000-04:00I work in a different county, but I'm not sure I u...I work in a different county, but I'm not sure I understand where you get the information about elem. ed. workday hours. Yes, we get about 20 min. to shove lunch down our throats. We also get ONE other planning time when our students are at specials (art, music, p.e.). This is a 30 min. time. What you may not be taking into consideration is that elem. ed teachers do not actually get all of that time. Unlike teachers of older students, whose students get up on their own and move throughout the buildings independently, we are constantly in supervision of our younger students. My students do not have any passing times. I am with them all day, transitioning from reading, to writing, to math, etc,. etc., The only time they are under someone else's supervision is that specials time. And yes, I have to spend 5 min. of that 30min. walking them TO the special area. Then standing with them until that teacher is ready (often late, b/c the previous teacher's students haven't been picked up yet, etc.) We also leave to go pick them up 5 min. earlier than the scheduled "ending" time, so that we are ready and waiting for them when the specials teacher is ready to release them to us. Our actual break is much less than the 30min. "on paper" time. I'm sure the same probably occurs for teachers of older grades, but for other reasons. We ALL have little things in our jobs that change what is actually "on paper". As teachers, we should all know this. There should not be nitpicking and fighting amongst teachers of different ages. We should just understand that regardless of the "times on paper", we are all professionals who dedicate our time to these students in many unspoken ways. Let's stop the infighting and work together to get what we deserve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903698425036113784.post-42003845474123776342007-04-25T20:06:00.000-04:002007-04-25T20:06:00.000-04:00Well, Mrs. Elia has finally spoken. She passed her...Well, Mrs. Elia has finally spoken. She passed her notes over to Candy Olsen, and Candy gleefully rammed it down the throats of parents, students and teachers. And, with a smile, too.<BR/><BR/>It's too bad she doesn't have to run until 2010. When she does, we will be at every stop, telling every parent how totally out of touch she is.<BR/><BR/>Mrs. Elia was grinning ear-to-ear as she heard Queen Candy pronounce to the subjects that it's gone too far. Sorry, Queen Candy, we'll be back. Thank you for the inspiration to fight harder. (While she did hold out an olive branch about "evaluating" the options, she spewed so much venom at that point that no one heard her.)<BR/><BR/>And the quote, "Don't go there." Candy Olsen, I never went there. You did. You read emails at a school board meeting, not me. I want nothing more than to sit in a room with my fellow teachers and fix this with them. We are all part of the solution...but you beg to differ.<BR/><BR/>Mrs. Olsen, why don’t you suggest that Mrs. Elia start talking to us? Why is she not taking the lead on this? When was the last time you read about the CEO of an organization that refuses to meet with front-line employees? You’d think that after two months, she'd figure out that she needs a different approach?<BR/><BR/>You see, when Mrs. Elia refuses to this day to have a meaningful dialogue, we have no options left other than Board meetings. Here’s my prediction. Things will settle down over the summer, and you probably won’t see many teachers at the beginning of the year. But, as more and more teachers realize how this is affecting them, they’ll be at that podium.<BR/><BR/>See you in the grocery story, Candy. Will you tell us which one you frequent? I'll even buy the bar of soap to put in your mouth since you put it in ours first.<BR/><BR/>(Suzie...delete this same comment from the other post.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3903698425036113784.post-40311159189501752502007-04-25T19:45:00.000-04:002007-04-25T19:45:00.000-04:00The Minutes Side by SideWe ALL work more than an 8...The Minutes Side by Side<BR/><BR/>We ALL work more than an 8 hour day now. Teaching is an extremely difficult job. ElemEd has time before and after classes to "plan". They are teaching with "blocks" and less passing time and number of times classes change. That's how they are at 300 minutes now. We have different types of things we have to do and prepare for in our day. Please do not use this to try to “divide and conquer’ us!<BR/><BR/>Most of us have not spelled things out this way. Our work days are VERY different as to how we spend our time. Look at these side by side comparisons. I really do not think that one group works more than another. The media needs to understand this. The news reports from Tuesday’s protest and board meeting have seemed to leave the message that high school teachers did not want to work as much as the other levels. This is the way things work for next year:<BR/><BR/><B>(YIKES!! can someone tell me how to cut and paste a word document here???)</B><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>HS ElemEd_______ Definition (if needed)______________<BR/>Ind. Classes two blocks + another how periods are scheduled<BR/>150 students 18 students parents to call, understanding needs, etc. <BR/>5 classes 5 classes<BR/>150 grades 90 grades to average, enter on Edline, etc.<BR/>7.3 student hrs 6.2 student hrs the "school day" for students<BR/>50 m planning 30 m planning time during the “school day” w/o students<BR/>15 m duty 15 m duty<BR/>high level material low level material <BR/>long assignments short assignments<BR/><BR/>next year 8 hr day for all teachers________________________<BR/>24 m more than students 90 min more than students (8h minus the student day)<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>For each group, 15 minutes for duty gets subtracted somewhere, schools will probably give teachers some choice as to where duty will be. <BR/><BR/>So here is the math:<BR/><BR/>HS gets 20 m more planning time + 24 m teacher time beyond the student time = 44 minutes .<BR/>ElemEd has 90 m of time beyond the school day.<BR/><BR/>90-44= 56 minutes <BR/><BR/>This is the <B>PERIOD,</B> with HS passing time, we are all in an uproar about.Leondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05252357787716532634noreply@blogger.com