Re: schedule

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In regard to the 5 minutes between classes, when a teacher
begins to have a habit of being late, I buzz the office and
have them locate the teacher. Once they know that you will do
that, it normally corrects the problem.

As for teachers who consistently bring them very late, I would
remind the teacher that you need the full scheduled music time
in order to carry through and meet the objectives in your
lesson plan. If it continues to be a problem, I would let
administration know.

With your special needs children, do you have an aide that is
in the classroom with you? If not, is there an aide assigned
to these students in other classes throuhout the day? If the
student is disruptive to the point that they are disrupting
your instructional time (and there is an aide assigned to the
student), I would ask that the aide accompany the student to
the music room. I would meet with the special education
teacher to see what she suggests would be helpful.

As for your planning time at the close of the day...is this
your only scheduled planning time of the day? If so, you
should have an uninterrupted planning period as every other
teacher. I would bring that to administrations attention. You
should not have to be responsible for "crowd control" during
your planning time.

On 11/19/12, anon for this one wrote:
I am supposed to have 5 minutes in between
> classes, except for one which is back to back to fix the
> lunch schedule. Most of the time, the 5 minutes is eaten up
> by teachers who are late to pick up their classes. Some
> teachers are actually up to 15 minutes late dropping off
> for class. unbelievable!
>
> I used to have a special Ed 'special' where all of the
> autistic kids came together and I could adapt the lessons
> for them so that they enjoyed it, learned something and
> were capable of doing what was asked. Most of the time
> there was a lot of smiling from this group.....but now that
> they don't 'fit' into the schedule, that special ed class
> was removed from the schedule. Which in my opinion, is a
> huge disgrace! All of these students are 'included' in
> specials for their 'socialization' time. It is not an easy
> day....which is most days since they cause quite a loud
> disruption.
>
> I am supposed to have planning at the end of the day (from
> 2:20 -3:00) but the 'car riders' come to my room and
> monopolize my room and space. I have very little time to
> even put things away and get ready for the next day let
> alone planning anything. Usually I end up leaving MY room
> because it is so noisy...and my head is pounding.

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