CRCT time is one month away, which means my school and most others are either already in serious review mode or gearing up for it. This eases the pressure very slightly on teachers in that there is no more new curriculum content to teach, so lesson planning doesn't have to be such a challenge. The pressure is turned up full-blast in other ways, though. We have to figure out a way to jog students' memory about EVERYTHING they've learned over the past seven months, and get them to learn it once more if it's been forgotten. For teachers who teach accelerated, gifted, and maybe even mainstream students, this might not be such a hard time of year. Perhaps these teachers only have to find a way to make reviewing all that material fun and engaging. Jeopardy, Bingo, and other popular games can do the trick here. But for others like myself, who teach lower-achieving and ESOL students, it seems like we are literally running for our lives and those of our students! Re-teaching, covering INSANE numbers of curriculum standards each day, jumbling dates, countries, people, and concepts together, and doing it for an entire month is NO FUN for anyone. I feel sorry for my students, and sorry for the teachers who will be on this treadmill until May arrives. But, we do this for a reason, and for those of us who passionately believe in that reason, I want to encourage you to give these next several weeks-and more importantly, your kids- your all!!!
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