We are in our 12th week of in-person learning. We have had to send one grade home for 2 weeks, due to a direct exposure, and we constantly have students zooming in to in-person classes, because they are quarantining for one reason or another. It's been challenging, but it could be worse!
I’m tired all the time from rebuilding lessons we are to share from my fellow teachers who do jot teach virtually. They have our lessons. I do not know how to help them understand that a page full of links is not a virtual lesson. Then helping students try to complete lessons that they are not completing is so hard. I’m on the phone more than I am teaching. Would love some help and guidance.
I use OneNote for each student to provide them with all the work they must complete. I also use flipgrid which I find the students can communicate their messages, and receive replies from others. It becomes a thread of wonderful conversations. I base these discussions on what we are learning.
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Thank you. We hope to have some resources and activities aimed at the collegiate level.
How is it going so far? Do you teach virtual and in-person at the same time?
For everyone. We need to lean on each other here... :)
What kind of online learning materials are teachers for elementary school students using? I have parents that are working and are concerned this process will be the same time and energy requirement as Home Schooling. Any thoughts or advice on how to ease that concern? Any resources you know of that help with this?
No more than 30% of families have internet. We do weekly packets but our district covers over 440,000 acers. Covid has hit hard 30 deaths in last month.
The in-person is from 8:15 AM to 12:15 PM; then there are shortened classes for students who remained virtual. I think it feels great to have students back in person, but I am dissatisfied with the overall effectiveness of the model. According to district admin., the current model is likely to change again at the end of second quarter.
Comes with a free pdf copy of the book.
The novel study unit has been posted in the Coronavirus Resources, or you can visit jgmckenney.com to get the unit and free pdf copy of the book. Hope it helps.
I am also in a small school. We have been in-person since the beginning of the year. Things are going great and we haven't had a positive case yet, knock on wood!
That's great!