EDAD 693 & 694 Practicum/Internship Artifact

Standard 3.0 Management

Element 3.5 High-Quality Instruction & Student Learning
Activities: Creating master schedule, delay/early dismissal schedules
RF,
RTI Planning/Scheduling Meeting GV
Time: 10 hours
Artifacts: Drafts of the RF 2016-2017 Master Schedule, 3-Hour Early
Dismissal, 2-Hour Delay, and 3-Hour Delay, GV Schedules,
Goals, Agendas
(See 1.1.2 & 1.3.1)
Description: Though these activities have served multiple purposes in helping to
steward a shared vision of learning (see 1.1.2) to promoting continual and
sustainable school improvement (see 1.3.1) a key dynamic in school schedules
should be ensuring that teacher and organizational time focuses on supporting highquality school instruction and student learning.
Reflection: Because schools exist to educate our countrys youth, student learning is
always going to be at the forefront of scheduling. Since the classroom teachers were
not present when I was creating the shortened-day schedules for Route 40, I tried to
focus on time. I wanted to maximize the time that resource teachers had to teach
their content, likewise maximizing the time that classroom teachers had to plan
engaging lessons for their students. At Grantsville, we could focus not only on time,
but also flow. The classroom teachers had ideas about how to break up their day so
that they had some long, uninterrupted blocks for certain content, but also shorter
blocks and breaks so that the students would have a chance to release energy and
refocus. The teacher input was helpful, as an administrator may not be able to
visualize everyones day the way the person teaching it would. If gaps were found in
resource or intervention teachers schedules, the group brainstormed the best way to
utilize that time in light of student learning goals.