![]() ![]() I mean, I can show my kids a movie at home. And I understand why: As a parent, when ask my kids what they did in school on any given day, and I hear “watched a movie,” I’m annoyed. I worked in a place like that, although near the end, we were starting to get pressured to cut that out. ![]() In some schools, they’ll still let you show movies. We often call the activities we need for these times “sponge activities.” Regardless of what you call it or how much you need, we all have those times when students are right in front of us but the regularly scheduled programming just isn’t going to work. Sometimes instead of days, we have small bursts of Lame Duck time: The leftover 15 minutes after the fire drill, when you know you don’t have enough time to actually finish the lesson you were teaching, but you don’t want to just let them sit there. On these Lame Duck days, it’s hard to figure out what we can do to still provide valuable learning experiences for our students. In some cases, like on standardized test days in certain districts, teachers are explicitly told they CAN’T plan regular instruction. We have something like that in school: those days when technically we’re still in school, but because it’s right before vacation, the end of the school year is near, or we’re in the middle of standardized testing, those class hours don’t have the same instructional potential as your average school day. Technically this person is still the president, but his or her decision-making power is generally perceived to be minimal. ![]() The term “lame duck” is most often used to describe a president who is still sitting in office after his or her successor has been elected. ![]()
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