APS Neighborhood HS - Teachers know all students
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Anonymous
Do they have office hours at WL? Is that their planning period? Do you get a pass from your current class to visit other subjects? |
Anonymous
Ok but sometimes the neighborhood schools are not the best fit for every kid. that's why people gave other suggestions. carry on. |
Anonymous
The only other options are a tech focused program and an impossible Unicorn? I just want the teachers to get to know their students, not just the high need and discipline students, but also the ones quietly falling behind. |
Anonymous
I’m a teacher. My planning periods are for me to grade, plan, attend meetings, or cover other teachers’ classes. This time isn’t available for students; they are in class anyway. However, I’m available before school each day for at least 30 minutes and after school for at least an hour. Most of my coworkers are, too. These are the times we meet with students. |
Anonymous
We certainly try. But the reality is we have approximately 2 minutes per student during a class period. I circle the room during work time and I try to visit each desk, but there are days I can’t, especially in my larger classes. I need to rely on classroom visits before school and after school if I need more time than that with a student. (I used to work at a school that had a different schedule. There it was 42 seconds per student.) |
Anonymous
Not only do they not exist after ninth grade, they barely even exist in ninth grade! |
Anonymous
How often did kids take advantage of after school hours? Is there a culture and expectations that students will come by? |
Anonymous
DP. I understand your point, but the vast majority of Wakefield grads do go to college. So being a “college bound graduate” doesn’t make you stand out. Taking more than a couple of AP classes at a time is likely to land you with the same people, though. |
Anonymous
I don’t think that exists in most very large schools. |
Anonymous
There are only single placements into the TT Ivies from any of the APS HSs. Last year’s acceptances: Harvard (1 HB, 1 WF, 2 WL), Yale: 1 WL, UPenn: 2 WF, MIT: 1 WF, 2WL, Princeton: 0 |
Anonymous
What is WF? |
Anonymous
But there are ways to foster it, such as having after a precept during generals period, where teachers meet with small groups from core classes maybe once a week? Any other ideas? |
Anonymous
+1. Most teachers are not going to have the time or bandwidth to proactively engage with students who are quiet but not failing. It’s asking too much of them to do that given the resources most large public schools have and all the requirements they have to meet these days. Part the high school experience is students learning to advocate for themselves and taking the initiative to engage with teachers. It helps set them up for what they will have to do after high school. |
Anonymous
Why did you leave out Yorktown? But also: 
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Anonymous
| Different situation but I teach 600 elementary students each year and I’d say I know 80-90% of them quite well and remember many of them for years. My colleagues in roles situations are the same. There are always some kids that just don’t “stick” though |