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This is actually a rather accepted strategy. Teachers directly teach, and then provide time for students to complete guided practice. If students have questions, the teacher is there to address it. This also provides teachers with an opportunity to work individually with students, which can’t happen if teachers lecture for the entire period.

If the students are talking or playing on their phones, then they are not using the class time as it is intended.

Perhaps it’s time to hold students more accountable for their own behavior instead of putting 100% of the responsibility on the overworked teacher.[/quote]

Yes, exactly. Holding students more accountable for their own behavior would allow teachers to focus more on teaching during valuable class time! Students who want to learn can actually learn more!

But often these students find the in class assignments too easy or finish them quickly, then they idle around. It would be nice if teachers can design materials that cater to students at different levels. That’s a lot of work though. [/quote]

And we would be able to do that if we had time. As it is, I spend every evening barely finding time to plan one lesson with modifications for students with IEPs and 504s. I would love to find time to further differentiate lessons by ability and interest, but at 65+ hour weeks already I just don’t have the time.

But if I got time AT work to plan? I can only imagine how tremendous that would be.[/quote]

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