how we departmentalized with 6 teachers

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how we departmentalized with 6 teachers
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Last year our team departmentalized with 6 teachers and it worked out great, with the only issue was making sure we kept in touch and communicated with all the teachers so noone felt out of the loop. We were able to plan
together once a week so everyone was on the same page.

6 teachers with 7 periods of instruction per day (not counting lunch, planning and recess)

9:00-9:45 Homeroom: all teachers had their homeroom class and during this time kids went to chorus, some band met, kids make up tests, unpack, checkin, etc

9:45-10:30: Specials

10:30-12:00: 3 teachers taught

Reading and Writing while the other 3 taught math. The 3 teaching math taught their homerooms and the other 3 took their homerooms and ability grouped them into 3 groups so that kids were on a scale of 1, 2, 3, or 4 with 1's being below level and 4's being above. Then kids were groups by their numbers so one teacher would have the 2's and 3's, one had the 2's and 4's and the other had the 1's and 3's.

12-12:45 Lunch and recess (by homerooms)

12:45-1:30 same as above for language arts because kids have 3- 45 minute blocks for Language arts. Then the 3 teachers that were teaching math did Science or Social Studies to their same homerooms(1 teacher did science and math all year, another did social studies and math all year, and the 3rd teacher did math, science and social studies all year)

1:30-3:45: the kids that had language arts in the morning went back together as a homeroom to have their math and either science and social studies til the end of the day. Language arts teachers took the other group of kids, grouped them and split them up as described above.

**for the first 41/2 weeks of the quarter kids got either science or social studies then switched and went to the other teacher for the second half of the quarter for the other content area. That third teacher did the same thing but since she taught both science and social studies she had only her homeroom and one other teachers homeroom only, whereas the other 2 teachers who did content eventually saw all the other 4 classes for content except for the 2 that that 3rd teacher was responsible for.

I know it may sound a little confusing but if you can filter through is it was we had a great year because teachers taught 2 subjects only except for one teacher had 3.