The Oz school year is about to start. I work with students needing support across year level. This means having to organise a timetable that suits each class teacher to withdraw or work with the student in the room. All teachers often want you at the same time of day to assist in literacy and numeracy activities.
How do you all go about organisation, cross grade grouping and “fitting it all in”
Do you constant interruptions to your timetables—i.e. parents phoning, having to deal with sudden and immediate problems, testing of new students and admin tasks.
Elle
It’s always a matter of coping and budgeting. Remember you aren’t perfect, and you can’t please all of the people all of the time — do the best you can and just avoid any real mismatches, such as taking a kid whose only success is athletics out of gym class, etc.
Different school administrations and other teachers are more or less supportive, which is why I am now teaching privately (too many of the unsupportive kind). I hope yours are better; you can try to inform them tactfully, for example when you get complaints about your scheduling, take the scheduling sheets into the other person’s class/office after school and try to work out something better. Maybe you will find a compromise, and maybe the other person will see the extent of the problem.