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Posted on 06/21/2011 1:44:44 PM PDT by NoLibZone
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The Green Bay teachers union is upset about a change in the designated work day work hours starting next school year.
The district breaks down the teaching workday with teaching time, professional time, additional duties, and lunch.
The district wants teachers to be involved in a new collaborative team building initiatives for a total of 90 minutes of professional time everyday. They are adding an additional 30 minutes to the teachers’ day, while taking away an hour of personal professional planning time instead of the current two hours.
Green Bay Education Association President Toni Lardinois says that’s valuable time for teachers. Lardinois says that is time they usually meet with students, contacting parents, planning lessons, and preparing for after school programs like sports and acedmic clubs.
Teachers would now work eight hours a day with a half hour lunch.
Superintendent of Human Resources Dr. Margaret Christensen says studies show that teachers learning together and discussing instructional practices together is the key to improving student outcome in math and literacy.
Teachers are not getting a pay increase for the extra time, but teachers will be credited an additional five hours of sick leave a year for the change.
Just add 100K to their salary. No big deal. ~sarc
Oh the humanity, how will they ever cope?
It's almost starting to sound like a job!
And remember that is only about 180 days a year.
It's not the end of the world but it is a foot in the door.
MPO is that the phrase-
"The district wants teachers to be involved in a new collaborative team building initiatives for a total of 90 minutes of professional time everyday".
-is school lingo for a daily circle-jerk.
If, and this is a big if, the districts can find meaningful activities to present in this time, it's OK and I doubt many teachers would complain. But, if the districts just sit you down and talk about the weather or some other line of BS simply to be able to say that they are making teacher more responsible, there is likely to be a backlash.
Taking this prep time from a teacher is going to cause some other activity to be slighted. Might be talking with parents or helping a student with something, could be any of a number of things. If the districts understand and accept this, everything will be cool. If they insist on taking this time to play "school games" with the faculty and then bazitch when other matters aren't attended to as they once were-there is the problem.
I’m sure this extra 30 minutes is going to be THE policy that makes public schools perform...
Well thank goodness, it gives them some much needed time to unwind after those crushing 8 hour days.
I was a teacher for 25 years. The majority of my peers were such whining sissies it was unbelievable. One way to drive them absolutely crazy was to ask for some of their time on a project.
This is a government entity. What do you think will happen?
This is a government entity. What do you think will happen?
it’s all good. the non-unionistas in the private sector will pay for their 30 with an addition 120.
personal professional planning time = PAID TIME OFF
2 Hours? Are you kidding me????? In a 7.5 hour day???
“Superintendent of Human Resources Dr. Margaret Christensen says studies show that teachers learning together and discussing instructional practices together is the key to improving student outcome in math and literacy.”
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Not even close “Dr.”
Most fundamentally it is an intact, monogamous, heterosexual nuclear family, with parents motivating academic performance in their children.
You teachers can give each other masturbatory “awards” all you want, but “good schools” only exist in areas with a preponderance of good families.
The real problem is the required content, not planning the lesson. If the required content is agenda inaccurate, all of this is a waste. I don't believe a teacher can amend a lesson that contains factual innaccuracies, and I don't believe a teacher can ever express a personal opinion in the classroom.
What say you?
At the Green Bay technical school (NWTC), the union employees retire at 55, start taking pension payments and then are “invited back” to work their old jobs and earn their old pay while still receiving pension.
this loophole results in union workers being paid twice!
It’s fraud and organized crime, plain and simple.
Oh Noes....now they have to do Homework...
Such a bummer, that.. but many salaried employees work outside of normal business hours.
Hey- I know - pay them hourly instead....
Think that may have tainted my opinion of some teachers, especially the whiners.
>Teachers would now work eight hours a day with a half hour lunch. <
The horrors!!
Do your job! I spend a lot more money than you can ever imagine just to make sure my students get the message. I don’t take leave... I don’t get compensation...I don’t ask for anything....
My students are dying to make sure you are raping the education system of this country...YOU GREEDY SCABS!
U.S. Army Retired......still serving.....
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