Speak Out: Common Planning Time
As a result of the implementation of the shortened school year in 2006, teachers in all grade levels throughout CCS were given common planning time to be able to prepare strategies with their colleagues with the goal of improving student achievement.
How has common planning time helped you improve student achievement? If it hasn’t helped you, what is preventing common planning time from being an open-ended collaborative experience for you and your colleagues?
Speak out below—make sure you’re registered!
November 28th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Common planning time is not the panacea everyone thinks it is. Many of my students’ parents work two or more jobs, and don’t work the traditional first shift, which means if you call first thing in the morning, you risk waking them up. There are exactly 434,349 things going on during the morning before the students get there. Unfortunately, common planning time is turning out to be number 434,350.