quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2012

escola tempo inteiro...? nada que não se faça por cá [apesar dos previsíveis cortes]... e sempre à custa do trabalho 'gratuito' dos professores...!

"Visit the teacher's lounge of any Chicago Public School and it likely won't be long before someone brings up the issue of extended school day. By next school year, all Chicago Public Schools will be required to add more minutes of instruction to their school day -- taking the district from having one of the shortest school days in the country to one of the longest. Like all change, this reform has been met with both resistance and applause. In an era where teachers feel like reforms are being done to them, and not with them, it is crucial that the fact that something is "mandated" doesn't detract from the importance or necessity of these changes.

As a group of charter school teachers, we are already working in schools with extended days. Some of us have worked in charter schools that have used the extra time to bring enrichment, differentiation, and excitement into the curriculum. Others have worked in charter schools that have made extra time in the school day nothing more than extra time.

Charter schools are laboratories for experimental ideas, allowing new ways of teaching to be explored with autonomy from the typical expectations of the school board. These experiments can pay off, as is highlighted in documentaries such as Waiting for Superman. But they can also fail, as evidenced every year when charters are not renewed. One size never fits all, but from our shared experiences we have some ideas we hope administrators and teachers bear in mind as they move toward making their school day longer."

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