If you have an elementary age child in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the Braband town hall, the floor for elementary school synchronous learning is one hour per day of the teacher teaching LIVE. If you child isn’t getting that, he suggested talking to the principal or the principal supervisor (??) for your region. There were a lot of complains about this.

Huh. Interesting. Our two elementary age dc are both getting less than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the Braband town hall, the floor for elementary school synchronous learning is one hour per day of the teacher teaching LIVE. If you child isn’t getting that, he suggested talking to the principal or the principal supervisor (??) for your region. There were a lot of complains about this.

Huh. Interesting. Our two elementary age dc are both getting less than that.

Is it combined by all their teachers? Because that's what my 6th grader is receiving from Math, Science, language arts and social studies~ all condensed to 1 hr daily.

Majority of the day is "independent study"... meaning nothing.

Very disappointing!

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yes think it's 1 hour of teacher time a day (not 1 hr per subject).

our school just started back up live learning this week. Rather than use that to supplement assignments posted to Google Classroom though now it seems to be the ONLY thing we're getting - no assigned "homework" for them to do between classes. ugh...

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one hour SYNCHRONOUS with a teacher each day is the minimum for elementary school, four days a week. the minimum.

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I was unhappy about only one hour of teaching a day, four days a week. Then I saw how some kids were getting much less than that, in the same school system. There is no way FCPS can pull off online learning fairly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was unhappy about only one hour of teaching a day, four days a week. Then I saw how some kids were getting much less than that, in the same school system. There is no way FCPS can pull off online learning fairly.

Same with LCPS.

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our school is doing the minimum. we have a 50 minute live session (that is a combo class) and then a 10 minute small group (which is pointless) two days a week and the other two days are a 60 minute class that is all of the kids in that grade level (which is chaotic and not helpful)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:one hour SYNCHRONOUS with a teacher each day is the minimum for elementary school, four days a week. the minimum.

That time can be for a lesson, read aloud, morning meeting, office hours. Lots of options.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:one hour SYNCHRONOUS with a teacher each day is the minimum for elementary school, four days a week. the minimum.

That time can be for a lesson, read aloud, morning meeting, office hours. Lots of options.

Nope, office hours doesn't count. According to the town hall last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:one hour SYNCHRONOUS with a teacher each day is the minimum for elementary school, four days a week. the minimum.

That time can be for a lesson, read aloud, morning meeting, office hours. Lots of options.

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Our teacher's office hours are by appointment only. How can that satisfy the requirement of 60 minutes of learning conducted by the teacher, per day? It is a completely different category than "lessons, read aloud, morning meeting" etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a fourth grader in AAP -- daily content is below...

15 minute morning meeting
One hour of math
One hour of language arts
In addition, they have just added a special with an assigned time for each grade daily.

There is a Word Masters Challenge this week and two other assignments for language arts are due. There is also a standing math quiz each Friday.

I call bullshit unless you tell us what school.

You can call bullshit all you want but I am not telling you the school as I would hate for them to face any backlash. There ARE schools and teachers doing a good job but nobody on DCUM ever wants to talk about the positive things.

Why on earth would they face backlash for doing what they're supposed to do? You are very strange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:one hour SYNCHRONOUS with a teacher each day is the minimum for elementary school, four days a week. the minimum.

That time can be for a lesson, read aloud, morning meeting, office hours. Lots of options.

Nope, office hours doesn't count. According to the town hall last night.

Interesting. We had been told differently. We were told students should have the opportunity for an hour of live interaction with a teacher each day.

Ok. So strike office hours.

[Anonymous]

An “opportunity” for live interaction with the teacher is completely different than a live teacher interacting with a live class. Our teacher says online office hour time needs to be scheduled in advance in ten minute increments.

[Anonymous]

If an hour of office hours counted as an hour of live learning, then kids would be expected to stay for a full hour in office hours to get their minimum live interaction time. That doesn’t make sense.

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1st grade

30 min M-TH live with teacher morning meeting/read along style. Teacher engages kids in activities and asks thought provoking questions. It seems like the kids love it as just about entire class attends.

Each day as well the team of teachers has prerecorded lessons in Math, LA, Writting, and Sciens/Social studies with classwork to go with it via google classroom and flip grids. New material!

Mclean pyramid ES.