What are some pros for year-round schooling?
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I can't think of any. It's been tried and there's just too much \nburn-out. My kids were in an extended year program and it eventually reverted to a standard system over the 6 years they were int it. There were long 3 week breaks in October and March. Kids forget a lot in 3 weeks and the daycare was a nightmare. \n\nKids need time to blow off steam, so do adults. Americans work too much and don't take enough vacation. Most Europeans take all of August off of work and another 30 days scattered throughout the year. All this work is unhealthy, year round school would be just as unhealthy. We all need more time to just "be" rather than working for to acquire more "things".
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Agree. "Year-round" schools that only have those 4 weeks off have much better academic progress than those who take the 10 weeks. It is also nice (I've heard from teachers in year-round schools) to have the 2-week spring break, and the week-long gaps betweeen sessions. It is much better for refreshing the teacher's mind while minimizing student regression over those vacation times.\n\nAlso, as a special education teacher, I have found the amount of "regression," or loss of skills over the summer, to be unacceptable. Most parents do NOT work with their kids over the summer, and kids with special needs should have year-round exposure to the skills they are trying to learn.
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I'd like to be getting "best answers" from Yahoo!\n\nSeriously, I plan to be in my fourth year of teaching school kids.  And to have at least half of my hair not gray!
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Welcome to the profession!\n\nFirst, if your district does not assign mentors for first year teachers, ask your principal to recommend someone in your building that is experienced, friendly, and has excellent classroom management skills. Plan to have regular observations, both him/her observing your room, and you observing theirs, and discussions with them about it.\nSecond, get to know your specialists...ELL teachers, special ed teachers, music/art/PE/library teachers, etc. Be aware of their strengths, and turn to them when planning for and developing instructional strategies for students in your class.\nThird, avoid "clique" participation. Stay open and friendly, as much as you can, with all staff, but stay away from becoming a part of any small sub-group, especially gossipy groups.\nFinally, have detailed plans way ahead of time, and then expect to change those plans daily. Having the overall structure in place ahead of time gives you a scaffold from which to do your daily adjustments.\n\nClassroom management is 90% of the success of your classroom. Set clear, simple rules and consequences, and be firm, inflexible, and fair in implementing those rules and consequences. Plan and practice classroom routine the first couple of days (what do you want your kids to do, step by step, when they need to sharpen a pencil, use the bathroom, get a drink of water, finish their work, etc., etc.).\n\nGood luck!
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Journalism\n\nTake classes (for teaching credential) while you work as an aide or teacher in elementary/middle school(try private schools because they don't always require credential)\n\nIf you like young children, work as a preschool aide and take classes for early childhood education in community colleges(cheaper than universities). These classes will be so easy to you since you've survived the college. It doesn't take too long to be a master teacher.\n\nTutorer\n\nGoing to grad school sounds good. But without a clear career goal you are going to ask the same question when you get out of it with a Master's degree.
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Definitely. Less of a chance for children to "forget" what they learn. They will still have the same amount of days off, just spread throughout the year.
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4 year B.S. or B.A. including a semester student teaching
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Congratulations! Now is the time to get that Prozac prescription...just kidding!\n\nReal things to do to get ready for next year:\n\n1. Find out if your school uses a standard form or expects you to use your own for Present Levels of Performance reports. Review the district form, or ask to speak to a veteran sped teacher in your district about the paperwork requirements. The same goes for your lesson plans. Do NOT turn to a regular ed teacher for this. You MUST link up with a veteran sped teacher. The sooner you have the "templates" and "cut and paste" part of your paperwork down, the less time will be sucked out of your busy schedule during the actual school year for the routine stuff.\n\n2. Ask to look at a sample district IEP, or even better yet, if they know your caseload already, look at your kids' IEP paperwork. Get to know the paperwork format backwards and forwards. \n\n3. If you can review those IEP's now, review commonalities in individualized goals and modifications, and center your planning around linking the curriculum to those shared elements (tweaking from that point for further individual needs is easier than going student-by-student from the ground up).\n\n4. If you can get into your school over the summer, do it. Start working on organizing your classroom now. You won't have time at the start of the school year, especially as a new teacher, with the additional new teacher orientation meetings, additional sped staff meetings, and possibly incoming IEP meetings prior to the children returning.\n\n5. Did I mention hooking up with a sped teacher from your building (or a nearby building at the same level) as a mentor? Your district may assign you a "mentor," but he or she may not be special ed. If your official mentor is not special ed, you are not going to be able to turn to them for many things. A veteran sped teacher knows the ropes...the ones that are so different for us than for the regular ed teachers.\n\n6. If you haven't done so already, start to invest some of your own resources in alternative curriculum, materials, etc. Most districts either provide only a little, or no funds, for alternative materials at the building site level. Start to build wish lists and wait for the sudden "we have $100 each teacher that must be spent by day after tomorrow" announcement, too. Ensure open communication for yourself both with your school front office and with SPED central office. When I started in my classroom, I was provided with one copy each of each regular ed textbook from for each grade level (K-5), and access to the school materials closet. Excellent resources for getting the real materials and curriculum you immediately need to start things off, are your prior cooperating teacher from student teaching (if that worked out ok), and your sped colleagues. Make sure you write your name on EVERYTHING that you either buy with your own money, or gain through hand-me-downs.\n\n7. Have a clear picture in your mind about the roles you and each of your educational assistants will be playing within the classroom. What decisions will you maintain full control over, what will you delegate to them, and how will you ensure both quality services from your EA's, and their job satisfaction so that you won't have rapid turnover? Always be alert to the different support requirements between 1:1 EA's (assigned to a particular student) and EA's assigned to you as YOUR assistants for general use across your program(s).\n\n8. At the start of the school year, identify the following people, and throughout the year work on building positive professional relationships with: the school secretaries (who are the real heart of any smoothly functioning school); all therapy providers (SLP, OT, PT, etc.); the school counselor; the other sped teachers in your building; every single educational assistant whether they are sped or not (you never know who and when you'll be to
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depends sometimes its headstart, preschool or even Kindergarten. Should ask local ISD they could help out.
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In some states they do have year around schooling.
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You can always home school kids that need it. Or volunteer your time at a library, school, lots of places need volunteers to help tutor the children.
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PRIVATE TEACHER,\n\nSCHOOL TYEACHER,\n\nTUTION / COACHING CENTRE'S COUNCILING.
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Public going to high school after summer.\nno,no tutoring.figure/solve out everything by themselves. no help, teach  to be independant.
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I would also say coursework. That way you can track writing ability and communication skills. Those are skills which will carry over into real life.
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I dont but that seriously surprises me.I live in NY and I thought that bigger schools and most of the schools on the east coast were year round schools. Im from rural Nebraska, and I didnt go to a year round school. I guess i never thought what it would be like to attend one or have my child attend one.. hmmmm.. you got me thinkin on that one!
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find a job doing manual labour, perhaps on a construction site.  it'll give you the break away from kids that you need to re energize, provide you with great exercise, supplement your income handsomely, and make you look forward to getting back into the classroom so you can be the best you can be for the kids.  as well, during the school year, as you reflect on the different jobs other people are doing in all kinds of weather while you are safely tucked away in your classroom doing what you love to do, you will have far more appreciation for your gift of teaching, as well as the labours of those that pay for you to be able to share your gift
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try ignou, it's good and cheap, and the teachers there really cares for the students.