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In the last year our
center has made some adjustments to
preparing for “Set Up to Quality” requirements.
A lot of the paperwork takes away from that rich relationship between
the teacher and child because intentional anecdotes, documented observations, portfolios
screeners and assessment need to be
current, and factual ( which I agree) . Teachers have shared, they just don’t have enough
planning time while meeting the needs and giving relationship attention to the
children individually and as a group. This concern is more so in the infant
rooms because schedules and routines are also a factor.
Personal experience
My personal experience in this process are finding ways to
help teachers get out of the room more for their planning times. Example, days that we
don’t have meetings using that hour
to plan,
or cutting down on forms so that screeners and parent conference forms can be used as a onetime lesson plan for that month, so that planning the following week will help the teachers stay a head of paper work.
or cutting down on forms so that screeners and parent conference forms can be used as a onetime lesson plan for that month, so that planning the following week will help the teachers stay a head of paper work.
Insights gained
As I become more familiar with my course work, I’m paying
closer attention to websites that offer research data. At this point just discovering
more educational sites is big for me. A few examples ; http://www.childcareexchange.com/eed/
http://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/Default.aspx
and my favorite http://www.centerforchildhoodcreativity.org/research/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAreilBRDzrNfb6uqX4fwBEiQAk-MRY_dbKHCpCvEJER0650g-i3oGD7J6WJ58LnJApFeFPQEaAk318P8HAQ which comes from Zero to Three
Hi Valerie,
ReplyDeleteTeachers burnout is a situation that most of us have faced sometime in our career thus far. I agree the cause of teacher burnout varies. You made a good point about one reason being teachers not having enough time for planning. If there is no planning the children become out of control. That can surely burn out a teacher. I feel if a floater could be hired to relieve the teacher to give them planning time will help with teacher burnout.
Deborah
Valerie,
ReplyDeleteBeing over worked as a caregiver can sometimes cause teachers not to want to completed task of paper work, but understanding that paper work is an important factor of their job. what are some ways that paper work can be reduce. Now days there is a form for everything. However if paper work can not be liminated what ideas are needing to help minimize the stress level of this for your teachers.
I think the topic that you have chosen is a very solid one. If this was something that I was to research I would probably really focus on how to stop it. I think we all know all the things that cause it so what do we now do to stop it. It happens all too often and we need to advocate for this to stop just as we need to advocate for better standards for our students.
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