Benchmark tests consume personnel and paper

Three classroom assistants called paras work four and a half hours in each of the four Upper Elementary classrooms at Denison.  None of us who act as lead teachers have figured out quite how this works, much less the assistants; but most of the time one of those helpers checks in with me sometime during the morning to see if I have clerical work and another spends two hours in my classroom during the afternoon.  On Mondays I ask her to help organize the homework folders that go home on Monday afternoon.  Today there was no help… Continue reading →