If you have an elementary age child in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Sounds fine to me, but according to previous posts they are a half hour short per day with live instruction.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why there is so much confusion as far as implementation of a pretty basic concept. The superintendent said-no less than 4 hours per week synchronous instruction from the teachers. Then somehow by the time that filters down to the principals it becomes, “do however little instruction you want”.

[Anonymous]

Agree-it’s a very simple concept. I think some principals just don’t want to deal and are just running out the clock. Some
schools didn’t start online learning until last week or this week. It’s May. School ends in June. Some kids will only have 8-10 hours of teaching total from when learning started until the last day of school.

[Anonymous]

+1 on trying to run out the clock. At least at our child’s school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

You're only getting 30 mins live? My DD got 1.5 hours live today (1 hour instruction, half hour fun and games) along with everything else you mentioned. Marshall pyramid, 25% FARMS school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree-it’s a very simple concept. I think some principals just don’t want to deal and are just running out the clock. Some
schools didn’t start online learning until last week or this week. It’s May. School ends in June. Some kids will only have 8-10 hours of teaching total from when learning started until the last day of school.

Ours is like this for sure. Doing the bare minimum. Answering questions with things like "we're looking at best practices from other schools to implement going forward", but what are you going to do when "going forward" is less than five weeks??

[Anonymous]

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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.

You clearly have never worked in education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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, Writing, and Science/Social studies with classwork to go with it via google classroom and flip grids. New material!

Mclean pyramid ES.

This sounds similar to our DS second grade class. Most of the daily live class meetings are about 30 minutes long. Occasionally they go 45 minutes. Our Principal was clear that an hour of live instruction for K-2 was not likely going to work well. The kids normally spend 15 minutes on something and then have some type of movement break or group work that allows for moving and not having to be 100% focused. This is developmentally appropriate for the age. There is no way to do that via a live chat. So they are not counting on using the full hour because the kids cannot maintain focus for that length of time.

We do have new assignments and a daily schedule that includes math, science, social studies, LA, and language immersion. On top of that, DS has music, art, counseling, PE, and AAP that are recorded but have assignments that he can turn in.

He is busy with his school academics about 3 hours a day. We get regular feedback from his teachers on the work we submit. It feels right for the situation and he seems to be doing pretty well with it. We can call in for office hours if we think he needs help with something or if his teachers were to ask us to contact them.

South Lakes Pyramid.

[Anonymous]

Our 3rd grader's teacher told the parents that the teachers weren't "allowed" to grade or comment on work as it was "an equity issue".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our 3rd grader's teacher told the parents that the teachers weren't "allowed" to grade or comment on work as it was "an equity issue".

Wow. That's crazy. Ours grades (1/4 etc) everything our child turns in via google classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our 3rd grader's teacher told the parents that the teachers weren't "allowed" to grade or comment on work as it was "an equity issue".

Teachers are not allowed to grade work, but they certainly should be providing feedback. I teach middle school, and I have elementary-aged kids in FCPS. I am providing lots of feedback to my students, and my kids' teachers are also providing comments. I would contact your principal and let them know that your child's teacher is not providing feedback.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our 3rd grader's teacher told the parents that the teachers weren't "allowed" to grade or comment on work as it was "an equity issue".

Teachers are not allowed to grade work, but they certainly should be providing feedback. I teach middle school, and I have elementary-aged kids in FCPS. I am providing lots of feedback to my students, and my kids' teachers are also providing comments. I would contact your principal and let them know that your child's teacher is not providing feedback.

Yes.
I teach third grade. I comment on pretty much everything that is turned in. As students are working on their drafts for writing teachers are making suggestions. Commenting is a large chunk of what I’m doing each day.

[Anonymous]

We don't get grades but we do receive feedback. It is normally not exciting. Things like "Your handwriting is really improving" and "Great work" or "Perfect" But he is in second grade so I am not sure what to really expect.

[Anonymous]

15:37 here.
We are not grading.

[Anonymous]

We have been really unhappy with our school-one hour each day four days a week, but I guess its better than nothing.

My concern is that in the fall, teachers/principals will think this is the norm for online learning but parents POV is that this is an emergency situation and we will want way more online school in the fall.