What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
Educational silos definitely exit in my school. They are because of strict schedules and limited time. As teachers we are pushed to follow our reading curriculum with fidelity. A lot of our focus is on Reading and Math. We are pressured to achieve high standardized test scores. This makes it hard to break down the silos. One way that I think would help, would be to be allowed more structured time for collaboration. I think sharing ideas with other teachers that teach the same grade level subjects would help me see other styles of teaching and learn new lessons or ways to teach specific topics. Then I could bring these ideas to my classroom and share them with my students. I think if the silos could be broken down, it would benefit our students by allowing them to use cross-curricular skills to apply problem solving strategies and use critical thinking skills.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
Education silos exist in my school. We are pressured to spend most of our time on Math and Reading and only get to Social Studies, Science, and others when we have time. We have a schedule to follow and certain time amounts blocked off for each subject. I think we, as teachers at my schoo, do try to disassemble these silos by finding time to collaborate. We take time each week to share ideas and work together. We also, thanks to Google, heavily use the Google suite to share resources and have a place to share work and collaborate. I think something that our students would benefit from is losing the time restriction we are given. As teachers, we know how important Math and Reading are, but it becomes a daunting task when you have more rules to follow than not. We would not not teach those subjects, but also make room for other activities that would include cross-curricular skills that could be taught with different acitivities that students would enjoy also.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
In my school, we have a strict schedule that we have to follow on what subject we have to teach when and what time to time. We have an instructional framework that we have to follow all throughout the year, that is how we do our lesson plans. I can start to disassemble these silos by being intentional with lesson planning and planning activities that connect subjects together. For students to carry on their learning from one subject to another. This can impact student learning by growing in all subjects by thinking critically and problem solving skills.
In my school, I am the only band teacher and the only other music teacher is my wife who I have a very open dialogue with and we have a lot of respect for each other. Due to this, my school doesn't have much of an education silo. I am allowed to teach what I believe to be the best for my students when I need to. If I had to identify an education silo, I would say it is marching band as marching isn't exactly the most educational use of our time. Our band would benefit much more from play a wider variety of music from other cultures instead. One way I can break down that education silo is to not compete in competitions and just go their for exhibition to give me more reason to focus on what is more educational. The benefit to my students would be that we aren't spending a month on an activity that has much lower educational value to them than anything we do the rest of the year.
An education silo that exists in my school is that we don't have any PLC time to be able to work together with other educators who also teach 7th grade. If we had PLC time to work together with other subjects, we would be able to discuss cross-curricular activities or ways to connect different subjects to what we are learning about in English. One way I can start to disassemble this silo is to talk with our Science teachers and find ways to connect what we are doing in English to what is happening in their classes. We are currently in a unit on conservation and survival and this would be a great topic to connect to Science. This could benefit my students who are currently learning about endangered species in Science with a project on conservation in English and how we can bring those species back to life. I could also connect it to pollution and the importance of taking care of our Earth.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
Educational silos definitely exist in my school as we are very traditionally departmentalized by content area of social studies, language arts, math, and science. Furthermore, there is not interdisciplinary teaming or cross curricular planning time in which to created shared lessons or units. In a former school I taught at we were teamed and had shared time to create interdisciplinary units. While teaching history I try to reach out across content areas to make those connections. For example, in my Inventions & Technology Unit I reference people and ideas from science and math all the time. I defiantly saw the benefits of interdisciplinary units in my old school as students transferred knowledge from on content area to another and it was being reinforced in all content.
n my school, education silos exist in the form of strict schedules, rigid curriculum requirements, and very little time to collaborate, coordinate, or even share a lunch break with colleagues. I can start to disassemble these silos by initiating small collaboration moments—like short planning huddles, shared activity ideas, or informal peer observations—and by advocating for flexible scheduling when possible. Breaking down these silos would benefit students by creating more cohesive, connected learning experiences, ensuring that everyone on their team is aligned and responsive to their needs.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
In my school like most education silos exist and are definitely an obstacle in teaching. We need to break down these silos to become better educators and perform to our highest ability. In my building these silos exist with the curriculum, focus on standardized test scores, emphasis on state standards, while be given very little time to collaborate with colleagues of the same content area, and not much time to plan. One way to break down these silos is allowing more collaboration time, team teaching, developing interdisciplinary units with teachers of other subjects. These changes would be beneficial to our students but also us as teachers.
I am an encore teacher (Health and PE). I think my education silo is that encore gets put on the back burner when it comes to core classes. I think PE and Health are just as important as ELA and math, and that all should be treated equally. The PE teachers in my district have been relaying this issue to our PE admin- so that is the start of correcting my education silo. Child obesity is at its HIGHEST currently, so it would definitely benefit our students to understand physical activity, the body and nutrition.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students? I would say that an education silo in my district is that the specials teachers (art, pe, library, and music) are left out of a lot of information. We really just do our own thing. Classroom teachers have grade level meetings once a week together with the principal, so half the time us specials teachers really have no idea what is going on. I think one way we could fix this is to have the specials teachers meet together once a week. We could discuss what we are all working on in our subjects and maybe find ways that we can integrate our units together (cross-curricular work). I think this would benefit students, because what they would be learning in the classroom could then be tied into our lessons as specials teachers. The students could be getting information that they are learning in the classroom and then also in art, library, music, and pe. The more repetition and exposure they get to this information I think the better they will learn and understand the content.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students? One is the 45 minute class schedule. Students just get in the groove, ex. ceramic wheel throwing...time setting up, tearing down actual time on the wheel? 25 min? Two is that one middle school grade 8 gets all four days of art but yet it is set up in a wonky way. I and then students sometimes are taken out of class often....by counselors, etc. to do college applications, etc. other school work. How to change this? brainstorm, communicate and present problem solving.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
ReplyDeleteEducational silos definitely exit in my school. They are because of strict schedules and limited time. As teachers we are pushed to follow our reading curriculum with fidelity. A lot of our focus is on Reading and Math. We are pressured to achieve high standardized test scores. This makes it hard to break down the silos. One way that I think would help, would be to be allowed more structured time for collaboration. I think sharing ideas with other teachers that teach the same grade level subjects would help me see other styles of teaching and learn new lessons or ways to teach specific topics. Then I could bring these ideas to my classroom and share them with my students. I think if the silos could be broken down, it would benefit our students by allowing them to use cross-curricular skills to apply problem solving strategies and use critical thinking skills.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
ReplyDeleteEducation silos exist in my school. We are pressured to spend most of our time on Math and Reading and only get to Social Studies, Science, and others when we have time. We have a schedule to follow and certain time amounts blocked off for each subject. I think we, as teachers at my schoo, do try to disassemble these silos by finding time to collaborate. We take time each week to share ideas and work together. We also, thanks to Google, heavily use the Google suite to share resources and have a place to share work and collaborate. I think something that our students would benefit from is losing the time restriction we are given. As teachers, we know how important Math and Reading are, but it becomes a daunting task when you have more rules to follow than not. We would not not teach those subjects, but also make room for other activities that would include cross-curricular skills that could be taught with different acitivities that students would enjoy also.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
ReplyDeleteIn my school, we have a strict schedule that we have to follow on what subject we have to teach when and what time to time. We have an instructional framework that we have to follow all throughout the year, that is how we do our lesson plans. I can start to disassemble these silos by being intentional with lesson planning and planning activities that connect subjects together. For students to carry on their learning from one subject to another. This can impact student learning by growing in all subjects by thinking critically and problem solving skills.
In my school, I am the only band teacher and the only other music teacher is my wife who I have a very open dialogue with and we have a lot of respect for each other. Due to this, my school doesn't have much of an education silo. I am allowed to teach what I believe to be the best for my students when I need to. If I had to identify an education silo, I would say it is marching band as marching isn't exactly the most educational use of our time. Our band would benefit much more from play a wider variety of music from other cultures instead. One way I can break down that education silo is to not compete in competitions and just go their for exhibition to give me more reason to focus on what is more educational. The benefit to my students would be that we aren't spending a month on an activity that has much lower educational value to them than anything we do the rest of the year.
ReplyDeleteAn education silo that exists in my school is that we don't have any PLC time to be able to work together with other educators who also teach 7th grade. If we had PLC time to work together with other subjects, we would be able to discuss cross-curricular activities or ways to connect different subjects to what we are learning about in English. One way I can start to disassemble this silo is to talk with our Science teachers and find ways to connect what we are doing in English to what is happening in their classes. We are currently in a unit on conservation and survival and this would be a great topic to connect to Science. This could benefit my students who are currently learning about endangered species in Science with a project on conservation in English and how we can bring those species back to life. I could also connect it to pollution and the importance of taking care of our Earth.
ReplyDeleteWhat education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
ReplyDeleteEducational silos definitely exist in my school as we are very traditionally departmentalized by content area of social studies, language arts, math, and science. Furthermore, there is not interdisciplinary teaming or cross curricular planning time in which to created shared lessons or units. In a former school I taught at we were teamed and had shared time to create interdisciplinary units. While teaching history I try to reach out across content areas to make those connections. For example, in my Inventions & Technology Unit I reference people and ideas from science and math all the time. I defiantly saw the benefits of interdisciplinary units in my old school as students transferred knowledge from on content area to another and it was being reinforced in all content.
n my school, education silos exist in the form of strict schedules, rigid curriculum requirements, and very little time to collaborate, coordinate, or even share a lunch break with colleagues. I can start to disassemble these silos by initiating small collaboration moments—like short planning huddles, shared activity ideas, or informal peer observations—and by advocating for flexible scheduling when possible. Breaking down these silos would benefit students by creating more cohesive, connected learning experiences, ensuring that everyone on their team is aligned and responsive to their needs.
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ReplyDeleteWhat education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
In my school like most education silos exist and are definitely an obstacle in teaching. We need to break down these silos to become better educators and perform to our highest ability. In my building these silos exist with the curriculum, focus on standardized test scores, emphasis on state standards, while be given very little time to collaborate with colleagues of the same content area, and not much time to plan. One way to break down these silos is allowing more collaboration time, team teaching, developing interdisciplinary units with teachers of other subjects. These changes would be beneficial to our students but also us as teachers.
I am an encore teacher (Health and PE). I think my education silo is that encore gets put on the back burner when it comes to core classes. I think PE and Health are just as important as ELA and math, and that all should be treated equally. The PE teachers in my district have been relaying this issue to our PE admin- so that is the start of correcting my education silo. Child obesity is at its HIGHEST currently, so it would definitely benefit our students to understand physical activity, the body and nutrition.
ReplyDeleteWhat education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
ReplyDeleteI would say that an education silo in my district is that the specials teachers (art, pe, library, and music) are left out of a lot of information. We really just do our own thing. Classroom teachers have grade level meetings once a week together with the principal, so half the time us specials teachers really have no idea what is going on. I think one way we could fix this is to have the specials teachers meet together once a week. We could discuss what we are all working on in our subjects and maybe find ways that we can integrate our units together (cross-curricular work). I think this would benefit students, because what they would be learning in the classroom could then be tied into our lessons as specials teachers. The students could be getting information that they are learning in the classroom and then also in art, library, music, and pe. The more repetition and exposure they get to this information I think the better they will learn and understand the content.
What education silos exist in your school? How can you start to disassemble these silos? Why would that benefit your students?
ReplyDeleteOne is the 45 minute class schedule. Students just get in the groove, ex. ceramic wheel throwing...time setting up, tearing down actual time on the wheel? 25 min?
Two is that one middle school grade 8 gets all four days of art but yet it is set up in a wonky way. I and then students sometimes are taken out of class often....by counselors, etc. to do college applications, etc. other school work.
How to change this?
brainstorm, communicate and present problem solving.