Ohio school district tests out 4-day week to avert teacher burnout
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- In classrooms across the country, many devoted teachers are working long hours and weekends - and that’s just what superintendent Eugene Blalock aims to prevent in his Ohio school district by implementing a four-day week. TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager reports.
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When I taught in a classroom, I worked 60 hours a week to barely keep my head above water- not to be all caught up. The thing that mattered most to parents was getting lots of graded papers back quickly, so what had to give was planning. I'd just trudge on with the next lessons in the textbooks, with no time to prepare labs, crafts, or other hands-on activities. I now teach privately online from home. I meet with my students four mornings a week, and they work independently on Fridays. I usually have the Friday work posted Thursday afternoons, so families have the option of a three-day weekend. I spend at least as much time planning as I do teaching, and I've found I really enjoy having the time to plan high-quality lessons.
Thank you, Jenna, for shedding light on this topic!
I love Jenna's take on this as an experienced teacher herself. It's true. Teaching as we know it is a dying profession.
It’s not that hard of a job…. Nights weekends, snow days, holidays off, summers off paid, they walk in with a couple weeks vacation, Winter vacation, February vacation, April vacation. Generous Benefits that anyone in the private sector could only dream of….. Teachers have it made…. Nothing is ever enough for these people. I’m sick of paying for these over paid people. The teachers unions are like the mafia holding people hostage for money. Time to start busting unions all together
It became a dying profession and it started when young people witnessed their teacher being abused, cursed at, injured or killed by their own students. Young people also witnessed how parents, including their own, berated or yelled at educators. School administrations have long gaslit or thrown their teachers under the bus. A few places are paying 100k but that only slows the hemorrhaging. In many places in the US, asking a kid to become a teacher would be trying to convince them to throw their life away.
In some places, school is held on four days w/ a longer school day, and the fifth day is truly a day "off." That seems preferable to avoid real burnout.
One major issue I see. Or maybe I just misunderstood the video. Are the teachers still required to come to school on that fifth day? It should be up to the teachers to decide how they want to use that day and where they want to be. If a teacher wants to come into the building and work or work from home. That should be up to them. If they want that day for them, and use it as an extra day of rest. That should be their choice. The admin and school system should not be able to dictate what happens on that fifth day.
I Love it!!!. The student in the video says, "It's great, we have another day to relax". I thought it was supposed to be a work-at-home day? Then the teachers say, "We are 100% on board". A 4-day work week. Oh yeah I bet they are... 😂 Are the teachers going to take a 20% pay cut? If that was proposed you'd see a massive teacher's strike. God Bless the good old USA!!! 🗽
Mr. Superintendent, SEND YOUR TEACHERS HOME.
Stop rewarding teachers that do this. That is NOT something to be recognized for. It poisons the well and pressures all teachers to do that.
Maybe, award the teacher that worked the LEAST and had the highest student satisfaction rate. Happy teachers make happy students. Happy students retain the lessons you teach. Disgruntled teachers and miserable students "test well" and become the next teacher's problem.
There's a very good reason employers in almost every profession have strictly enforced work hours.
Stop LETTING teachers give their free time to their job. They are burning out because they think it's mandatory to spend their unpaid time on their job.
If they complain that they don't have enough time to finish their work, reprimand them. Just like every other profession. They are destroying themselves and your workforce.
Let the "work" go unfinished. That's when you can see where the gaps exist. Allowing your workforce to work past their time sweeps those issues under the rug.
Teachers: You are not doing it for the kids. That is statistically and verifiably incorrect. The most important part of teaching is the TEACHER. Go home. If you can't finish your work, take your lumps. You will never learn how to manage your time, or improve the system if you continue to clock out and continue.
When the clock hits, pencils down.
Your "care for the kids" puts pressure on every other teacher to keep up and do the same. Now you work in a toxic environment that self perpetuates because YOU endorse and encourage it.
It is possible to show up to school excited and happy to teach. It really is. You need to be smart enough to make that happen for yourself and your colleagues.