Greetings from Toledo, Ohio,
I am looking into changing classroom schedules for next year. A topic I hear on a regular basis from my team is the lack of plan time teachers have in my division. Our teachers eat lunch with their class and supervise their classroom's recess time every day. Teachers have 50 minutes a day to themselves when children are at specials (or when they have break coverage for nap time). This time is their only time without children. I count this time as plan time and they count it as a break time. My question to you is, do your teachers have a separate break and plan time? What is your teachers' daily non-contact time? An additional piece of information is that our teachers are paid for an 8 hour day but are allowed to leave 30 minutes earlier (at the end of the day) than the other faculty (we are a PS-12 campus) meaning they are only working 7.5 hours.
Any advice or sharing your PS-K non-contact time would be helpful as I try to get creative in creating a new schedule.
Warmly,
Michelle
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Michelle Thomas
Director of Early Learning
Toledo OH
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