The department chair decided that enrichment would be more effective if we allowed a few select students to run each classroom. These chosen elite would be the teachers delivering instruction and clearing up confusion in each classroom. Sounds awesome, but that's not how it worked out.
The students didn't respect their "peer teachers", so no "enrichment" took place. But no worries, we have a flawless plan in place. We will continue to run enrichment the same way for the rest of the year.
Here in the county we believe in continuing to beat the dead horse even when there are several signs telling us that there is no life remaining in the poor beast.
Well, I guess its easier to leave something broken instead of using precious resources to fix it.
The struggle is real.
What does enrichment mean for this school? Is it a classification of GT students or something? The reason I ask is because middle schools I've been around call enrichment the block of time when students can sign up for a teacher's section and learn things like yoga or knitting.
ReplyDeleteEnrichment is supposed to be a remediation of sorts. It's supposed to ensure that the students Don't fail their state test. We don't offer cool things like yoga or knitting or underwater basket weaving.
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