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ESL teacher's schedule

by drama queen

Nov 18, 2010

I'm wondering what kind of schedule other ESL teachers have. I teach on a 1st-2nd grade campus. Our ESL teacher's schedule has 11 hours of instruction per week. She has a 30 minute lunch and an hour of conference time each day. She also has 14 hours per week of nothing scheduled. On Fridays, nothing is scheduled for the entire day. She is a former reading coach. On M-TH she goes into different teacher's rooms and teaches the reading lesson to the entire class without focusing any attention to the ESL students. She does not pull out any ESL students at another time. This does not seem right to me. What do you think?

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Charlene On 11/18/10, drama queen wrote: Everyone's schedule is different. I am an ESL teacher as well. My contract time is the same as the classroom teachers. In other words, I have a 30 minute lunch break and 5 hours of planning time per week. The rest of the time I see kids. There is a lot of paperwork that I am responsible for, and I normally take care ...See More

Nov 18, 2010

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st Similar to Charlene: an hour a day planning time, 30 minute lunch, with students the rest of the time. But my school also has an ESL coordinator; she teaches only five hours a week but the rest of the time she does paperwork (such as for reclassification of students, EL funding, documentation of services, EL accountability, etc), testing for placem...See MoreSimilar to Charlene: an hour a day planning time, 30 minute lunch, with students the rest of the time. But my school also has an ESL coordinator; she teaches only five hours a week but the rest of the time she does paperwork (such as for reclassification of students, EL funding, documentation of services, EL accountability, etc), testing for placement and progress monitoring, monitoring academic progress of reclassified students, coaching teachers in EL strategies, some translating for parent meetings, and coordinates the ELAC committee. If your ESL teacher has some of those same responsibilities, that's probably what she's working on in her "unscheduled" time.

On 11/18/10, Charlene wrote: > On 11/18/10, drama queen wrote: > Everyone's schedule is different. I am an ESL teacher as > well. My contract time is the same as the classroom > teachers. In other words, I have a 30 minute lunch break and > 5 hours of planning time per week. The rest of the time I > see kids. There is a lot of paperwork that I am responsible > for, and I normally take care of that during my planning time > or on my own time. Have you actually looked at her schedule > to justify that she has all this free time? I wouldn't just > jump to conclusions and say she does nothing for several > hours per week? Do you know anything about ESL? THere is an > extremely large amount of paperwork that we are responsible > for. Perhaps she is fortunate in her position to have that > time during the week and on Friday to work on it. > Furthermore, do you know anything about ESL strategies? She > maybe using these strategies in her reading instruction that > you may not even be aware of. If you are that curious, I > would ask her about her schedule. I know that for myself, if > any teacher thought that I sat around and did nothing for > most of the day, I would gladly share my schedule with them. > Good LUck! > > >> I'm wondering what kind of schedule other ESL teachers >> have. I teach on a 1st-2nd grade campus. Our ESL >> teacher's schedule has 11 hours of instruction per week. >> She has a 30 minute lunch and an hour of conference time >> each day. She also has 14 hours per week of nothing >> scheduled. On Fridays, nothing is scheduled for the >> entire day. She is a former reading coach. On M-TH she >> goes into different teacher's rooms and teaches the >> reading lesson to the entire class without focusing any >> attention to the ESL students. She does not pull out any >> ESL students at another time. This does not seem right to >> me. What do you think?

Nov 18, 2010

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Jenny On 11/18/10, st wrote: I agree with the other posts. I teach ESL but I also coordinate our school's ESL program, which means I monitor about 50 students who I don't see on a daily basis. I do a LOT of emailing teachers to see how kids are doing, schedule teacher meetings, parent meetings, etc. I do home visits during the day and in the evenings. I ...See More

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