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Teachers and students in the small, redesigned school are organized into 10 teams of 40 students and 2 teachers each for the core subjects. Two teachers – one math/science and one humanities – share 40 students in 2 classes of 20 each. Thus, class size is 20 students. In addition to the two core classes, students take two electives which meet three times per week. There are 5 elective teaching positions, which could be filled by full-time or part-time teachers. Each core teacher teaches 2 sections of core classes in 90 minute blocks five times a week, spending 15 hours per week teaching core courses. S/he has nearly 4 hours per week for individual planning, as well as over 6 hours per week for collaborative planning and professional development, including more than 4 hours of team planning time (which allows for in-depth conversation about how to support individual students) and 2 hours for planning with colleagues in the same discipline. A 2 ½ hour weekly faculty meeting allows time for both shared decision-making and whole-staff professional development. Additional time is made available for individual help for students (two lunch periods a week); advisory meetings with students (2 ½ hours per week); and tutoring (1 hour per week). Note that teachers in the small, redesigned school
take on additional responsibilities for student support in their time
outside the classroom. For example, the school only has one counselor,
who focuses on college counseling, so most academic counseling is done
by the core teachers through the advisory program. In addition, special
education services are provided by the core teachers in their classes,
rather than through a pull-out model with resource teachers. |
Teachers in the large, traditional school teach five out of the seven periods daily. During each of the six non-lunch periods, 5/6 of the teachers are teaching. Thus, class size equals the number of students divided by 5/6 of the teachers, or 1600/(64*5/6) = 30. Students take six different classes from six different teachers. Each teacher sees 150 students daily. Each teacher spends about 23 hours per week teaching
class and has about 4.5 hours of individual planning time per week, as
well as one required faculty meeting per week, which may include some
collaborative planning or professional development time. |
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