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 * __Week 4 Part 3-EDLD 5342__**

I learned from the lecture that the concept of differentiated staffing takes lots of communication and collaboration from all stakeholders. In an article from the American Association of School Administrators, a comparison is made between sufficient training in pedagogical methods and recognizing the expertise that an individual may have in a particular subject area. We have more flexibility in Career and Technology subject areas due to the specialized training required of the teachers and certification opportunities for students. Diversifying the duties of classroom teachers to meet campus and district goals is an innovative concept, and in FWISD, we will review a few areas of specific improvement. Because policy from the state level does not give specific time limit requirements, some school programs have integrated disciplines into one classroom. The classic example is infusing social studies with language arts instruction. Two other content areas are reading and writing. These subjects lend themselves very well to interdisciplinary units, and with a dually certified teacher who meets all the TEKS, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, in their classroom; two sections of courses could easily be merged into one. These types of structures to school context and organization could lead to a dramatic reduction in costs. However, one may argue that the rigor required and the limited resource of time is too constraining to allow this type of change in a school. One of the goals of our district is to provide for effective instruction, and cross-curricular studies have been proven to provide for increased achievement.

From Jeff Upon first examination, differentiated staffing is a difficult topic to understand.The idea behind the concept is to reduce the number of teachers and staff members by providing employees to specialize in the specific tasks that are needed in order to perform the duties of the job.Differentiated staffing can be an effective means of reducing the workload and personnel costs in a large campus or district.In these settings, the number of employees can be reduced by providing specialized staff members to do the tasks of assigned to others.One example is the duties of the educational diagnostician.Many campuses have one or more diagnosticians assigned to their individual campuses.Some of these positions could be reduced by requiring diagnostician to serve multiple campuses.The number of librarians and counselors could be cut as well by requiring administrators, librarians, and counselors to serve multiple campuses.The duties of these positions could be divided up among the teaching staff as well in order to reduce the number of administrators, counselors, and librarians. These kinds of cuts are not popular because they reduce in the personalization that is needed in order to make connections with students.They also increase the workload of individual teachers and staff members