On 5/04/08, Marie wrote:
> One teacher even told me that she is a professional
> educator who doesn't need help from me or the ELL teacher.
The point is to help the kids, not to help the teacher. The
teacher may not need or want your help but the kids
do! The teacher is saying the kids don't need the support
that you and the ELL teacher provide, but you have data that
demonstrates otherwise.
> This past week, I notified all of the teachers that I had
> to administer end of the year tests that are mandated by
> the state, yet I had teachers who just plain
> forgot and scheduled in a dodgeball game or art activity
> rather than sending their students.
For this, you may need to make it so that "I forgot" is no
longer an option (or no longer a credible excuse). For
anything that isn't regularly scheduled I email the teachers
and then send them a paper copy of the email the day before.
Then I follow up with a phone call to the classroom if the
student doesn't show up. (And if a teacher has a history of
not sending students, then I won't wait for the student to
not show up, I'll call the teacher with a reminder just
before the student is supposed to come.) By this time
the teachers have heard from me via email, memo, and phone.
If I can't get ahold of a teacher by phone because the
students have gone out to an activity outside their
classroom, I call the office and ask them to track down the
student, and they do. When I mention that it's for state-
mandated testing I get a quick response, if not from
teachers, then from administrators.
Obviously this won't work if you don't have a way to call
the teachers and the office, or if your administrators and
secretaries aren't supportive, but it's worked for me.
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