I've been teaching for 15 years in Scotland. I've had all stages but gradually have ended up in P1. I love it and I'm good at it.
We have a new HT and she wants to see play, but the model she wants to use is making me so worried. I feel I've nowhere to ask apart from here. I usually have a full class of 25. No PSAs apart from 1-1s (and they cannot be used for anything else).
She wants me to get rid of all the tables and chairs and divide the room into areas (e.g. Writing, Funky Fingers, Numeracy etc). The idea is that I will have a small group with me at a teaching table and the rest will be in these areas playing and doing target tasks.
I have so many concerns and I feel like I am not being listened to.
- If I am teaching my small group at my teacher table, I will not be able to get up and check that they are actually doing their target tasks.
- The noise... I can only imagine it being soooo noisy and distracting.
- The workload. The model suggests 3 Literacy tasks and 3 Numeracy tasks set out per day.
I have suggested compromising with a taskboard but she has a fixation on them freeflowing in the room through the areas doing the tasks as they please.
I don't want to do this. I really don't. I think it sounds chaotic. AIBU?