ilovefh
Is it Disney time yet?
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2002
....I don't know but I certainly agree about all the BS paperwork that we must submit.....that's half the problem. This year, more than ever, I feel like a statistician...
It's funny you say that. Last year I told our assistant principal that I could either be a great data collector or a great teacher, but they had to pick one. When I only have 2 50 minute planning periods per week and you expect that I will track down test scores for all of my students (132) for all baseline and monitoring tests they take in every subject so I can "have a picture of the whole child" and then compile all of this data and all of their demographics in a spreadsheet, well something has to give. Not to mention the progress monitoring plan that I have to fill out for each child who scored a 1 or a 2 the year before, which is all of my kids because I teach the lower level kids. Then I need to meet with the parents about the plan. And oh yeah, I forgot, the site for the plans is only accessible at school so no doing that at home.
And yes, it is a problem with the way our school was run. We used to have a spreadsheet that all teachers could access. This made it possible to have one place for all teachers to put their scores rather than everyone do their own. This way the demographics for each kid was already entered and each teacher was responsible for entering their monitoring scores.