Distance Learning

[Anonymous]

OP here.

It's not the academic stuff I'm worried about, but I do wish the classes had daily check-ins, just so the kids could be grounded/ connected to their class. At this point, its too late, but was just curious.

[Anonymous]

My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.

Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.

Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?

DP but one of ours has been doing the same thing. No real explanation given. It's a bit strange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.

Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?

DP but one of ours has been doing the same thing. No real explanation given. It's a bit strange.

I'm a teacher and that is really odd. Any parent who is able, should be supplementing a child's education all the time. I have done that with my own kids since they were babies. I find it hard to believe that any teacher would dislike a parent supplementing. I mean, how would she even know? I feel like there must be another side to this story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.

Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?

DP but one of ours has been doing the same thing. No real explanation given. It's a bit strange.

I'm a teacher and that is really odd. Any parent who is able, should be supplementing a child's education all the time. I have done that with my own kids since they were babies. I find it hard to believe that any teacher would dislike a parent supplementing. I mean, how would she even know? I feel like there must be another side to this story.

They don't want the parent to help or teach. You can definitely tell which kids are being taught spelling.

[Anonymous]

Pay freezes for 4 years.
Cuts to preK programs