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Case: No Recess My administration has made it very clear that they do not approve of recess except on Fridays. I teach a class of 25 rowdy 8 year old kids. I am a firm believer in the fact that they need a break. I have been stopping and doing a Just Dance break after lunch, but I always feel like I have to sneak around and hope to not get caught. Am I wrong for wanting my students to have a break? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) No kids need break time to reboot. When I was doing observation hours the kids only had recess on Wednesdays and Fridays and the other days of the week they would take their kids outside themselves and let them play for 20 minutes. it really seemed to help. I'm sure you're not the only teacher feeling this way so maybe you could talk to other teachers and together bring the problem to the administrators and ask for a change. Take them outside to run for 20 minutes and you guys as the teachers can come up with the schedule around that. That way the administrators only have to approve it and not do anything else. If none of this works then come up with an activity in class that could be seen as educational as well so you don't feel like you're sneaking around. Maybe let the students run in place next to their desks for a while and go in a circle doing dances/stretches/or jumping activities. Do a review with those activities, go around the room ask the students to state a review of old lessons or something and then if they're right let them pick an activity to do next to their desk that everyone has to mock. Go around the room doing this. |
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