Free up two hours of planning time each week.

How would education be different if every teacher in the country had a personal assistant? Studies by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found that 78% of teachers believe (2014) they would need more planning time to properly implement the Common Core State Standards, and that, on average, teachers work 53 hours per week (2012). Of those hours, roughly 5 are spent grading, according to a 2013 TALIS study.

In my last entry, I discussed the difference between technology integration that makes traditional ways of educating more efficient vs. that which uses technology to redefine the goals and methods of education. While at heart I see myself as a progressive educator, I realize that teachers can only reach for higher objectives if they can reduce the time spent fulfilling responsibilities related to traditional education – because let’s face it, the expectation that teachers fulfill traditional roles (such as writing report cards and grading quizzes) are not going away any time soon.

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