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Glad you asked, I have dyslexia, and I was very worried about writing, much less reading fast enough. In general we budget 4 mins per page, that said the meetin
by kator 5y ago
Glad you asked, I have dyslexia, and I was very worried about writing, much less reading fast enough. In general we budget 4 mins per page, that said the meeting usually starts with a "here's the doc, please read until XXX and let us know if you're ready sooner". And then a "time check how are people doing?" and often you'll hear "I need N more minutes". And back to reading.
I was very worried about this part of the experience because of my challenges, I'm not the world's fastest reader, but over time I got comfortable just saying "I need 5 more minutes". Or I'll say "I'm on page N".
That said we do have some leaders who read incredibly fast, for them I always include some good appendices so they stay "in the room and on topic" rather than float off into their email.
- InfiniteRand 5y agoThis is off-topic but your comment reminds me of a principle I learned when I was briefly studying to be a teacher, use extra enrichment material rather than tracking (ie, having the kids go further ahead in the main material) for advanced students so that the slower students do not feel discouraged or left behind and the faster students do not get bored.
- smeej 5y agoI got a book thrown at me in middle school by a teacher who thought I was lying that I'd finished the whole textbook when he told me to try working ahead if I was bored. When I handed him a stack of all the end of chapter tests to prove it we had to schedule a meeting with the principal to figure out what I should do next. It involved having to go to another school in the morning because mine didn't have anything else to teach me, and I can't help but think you're right that enrichment would have been a better solution for everybody than that was!
- walshemj 5y agoI remember in junior school there where about three or four of us who the teachers let read at our own pace.
- smeej 5y agoThis is exactly the sort of information I was looking for! Thanks for sharing! I just proposed this, with your suggestions to my team. We've been experiencing meeting creep and having some trouble staying focused on one meeting topic at a time, and I think this will help us a lot!