There is an excellent discussion going at the Teacher Magazine site about a recent study that states that teachers in the U.S. are spending too much time teaching and not enough time planning and collaborating.
Here’s how Teacher Magazine is framing the discussion:
A new report says that U.S. teachers average a significantly greater number of classroom-teaching hours per year than their counterparts in top-performing European and Asian countries, and thus have less time for planning and collaborative, job-embedded professional-development activities that are common elsewhere.
What’s your reaction? Are U.S. teachers given too great a teaching load? Do you wish you had more time during the school day to work with colleagues on instructional issues? What would you do with 15-20 hours of non-teaching time per week?
After giving this a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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