Tuesday, June 2, 2009

What about Departmentalization?

We've discussed departmentalization on the video conference today.  We know that departmentalization will:

  • Provide the opportunity to intensify the focus on the need to meet standards, indicators and benchmarks of the curriculum.
  • Allow teachers to specialize in a specific subject area and to maximize the use of resources/instructional time.
  • Offer academic specialization and takes advantage of the best of teacher resources and facilitates instructional planning.
  • Provide the opportunity for incoming teachers to narrow their focus to a specific content area.
  • Provide the school with the opportunity to maximize the use of district and other resources.
  • Provide instruction of a higher quality since teachers are focused on specific subject-matter discipline and can concentrate on preparing comprehensive lessons that are structured around making the needs of individual sub-groups. 
How do you feel?  What concerns do you have?  Please post!