Reply to Incentives to Keep Teachers

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Incentives to Keep Teachers"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In other countries, admin is called a head teacher. They actually still teach. That would go a long way toward keeping higher ups in touch with the realities of teaching. [/quote]

We have that here too. Just more layers of administration.[/quote]

But we don’t have that here. If we did, school-based administrators would still be  teachers with their own classes to teach.

I am a huge fan of this model. I don’t understand why we have a system in which non-teachers (including admin, who become detached and rusty) make all the decisions for teachers. [/quote]

We do. Every grade or department has a team lead.[/quote]

My department head has about a third of his high schoolers failing 2nd quarter.  The kids passed with a C or greater 1st quarter so didn’t need to even bother with the second quarter to pass the semester. The kids just sit on their phones.  Central office needs to raise the expectations for grading or teaching becomes impossible.[/quote]

Teachers need to work with parents more.  We had a teacher reach out to us and it was dealt with very quickly.  [/quote]

Teachers need time in order for that to happen. Most teachers have very, very little time and spend days running from one obligation to another. It’s hard to find time to eat and run to the bathroom, so it’s certainly hard to find time for parent contacts.

[/quote]

Then, not sure what teachers expect parents to do when teachers refuse to communicate with parents.  I reach out to my kids teachers to make sure things are ok, especially after we got an email from one teacher.  Only one responded.  So, as a parent, I cannot fix a problem that I don't know about.[/quote]

It isn’t about refusing to work with parents. It’s about TIME. I have 150 students and I get 28ish minutes a day to plan, grade, and respond to all emails. It’s overwhelming. This thread is about how to keep teachers. Here’s one answer: give us TIME to get our work done. I’d take time over higher pay.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics