What happened to 2.5-3.5 hours of live instruction per day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And why are there so many awkward breaks???? I just added up the hours and it is 4 hours live instruction for one child and 4.5 hours for my other child of live instruction. This does not include the MTSS. At least our school moved the family choice time to the end of the day.

I understand kids can’t sit straight through. Our school has 20-45 min breaks throughout the day from 8:30-3. Why does there have to be a closing meeting?

One kid has morning meeting, MTSS, break, specials, break, social studies, break, lunch, math, break, writing, closing meeting.
Another kid has morning meeting, reading, break, MTSS, math, break, social studies, lunch, specials, break, writing, closing meeting.

How many total live hours do your kids have?

1 hour math, 1 hour language arts, half hour specials and half hour social studies would have been just perfect.

If you have ES kids, then the reading and math time are actually only 15-20 minutes instruction and the rest is small groups.

[Anonymous]

what is MTSS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And why are there so many awkward breaks???? I just added up the hours and it is 4 hours live instruction for one child and 4.5 hours for my other child of live instruction. This does not include the MTSS. At least our school moved the family choice time to the end of the day.

I understand kids can’t sit straight through. Our school has 20-45 min breaks throughout the day from 8:30-3. Why does there have to be a closing meeting?

One kid has morning meeting, MTSS, break, specials, break, social studies, break, lunch, math, break, writing, closing meeting.
Another kid has morning meeting, reading, break, MTSS, math, break, social studies, lunch, specials, break, writing, closing meeting.

How many total live hours do your kids have?

1 hour math, 1 hour language arts, half hour specials and half hour social studies would have been just perfect.

If you have ES kids, then the reading and math time are actually only 15-20 minutes instruction and the rest is small groups.

What Virginia schools have started????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And why are there so many awkward breaks???? I just added up the hours and it is 4 hours live instruction for one child and 4.5 hours for my other child of live instruction. This does not include the MTSS. At least our school moved the family choice time to the end of the day.

I understand kids can’t sit straight through. Our school has 20-45 min breaks throughout the day from 8:30-3. Why does there have to be a closing meeting?

One kid has morning meeting, MTSS, break, specials, break, social studies, break, lunch, math, break, writing, closing meeting.
Another kid has morning meeting, reading, break, MTSS, math, break, social studies, lunch, specials, break, writing, closing meeting.

How many total live hours do your kids have?

1 hour math, 1 hour language arts, half hour specials and half hour social studies would have been just perfect.

If you have ES kids, then the reading and math time are actually only 15-20 minutes instruction and the rest is small groups.

What Virginia schools have started????

They haven't started, but a lot of us already have our schedules.

And to the pp in our case last year live instruction time was 20 minutes and the rest was dedicated to the student doing the assignment offline. So it wasn't even small group. If our teacher did do small group it was during the 20 minute live. This was for 1st grade though. I'm hoping to have more student engagement in 2nd.

[Anonymous]

You know the in person school day has a lot of non-instructional transition breaks, right????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what is MTSS?

Possibly Multi-Tier Systems and Supports, it is another name for RTI services. So basically any extra pull-outs for kids who are behind.

If your child is behind in reading, please explore what curriculum that are using in the MTSS/ RTI. The only bright side of distance learning seems to be that parents are getting to see what reading instruction looks like in schools and it isn’t pretty.

[Anonymous]

I teach a primary grade. Our looks like this:

Morning Meeting 9:00-9:30
Math Focus Lesson 9:45-10:05
Small Group 10:05-10:25
Small Group 10:35-10:55
Specialized Instruction 11:00-11:30
SS/Sci 11:30-12:00
Lunch/Recess 12:00-1:00
Reading/Writing Focus Lesson 1:00-1:20
Small Group 1:30-1:50
Small Group 2:00-2:20
Break 2:30-3:00
Specials 3:00-3:30

So daily T-F, not counting small group times, every student will have ~100 minutes/day synchronous with me plus specials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach a primary grade. Our looks like this:

Morning Meeting 9:00-9:30
Math Focus Lesson 9:45-10:05
Small Group 10:05-10:25
Small Group 10:35-10:55
Specialized Instruction 11:00-11:30
SS/Sci 11:30-12:00
Lunch/Recess 12:00-1:00
Reading/Writing Focus Lesson 1:00-1:20
Small Group 1:30-1:50
Small Group 2:00-2:20
Break 2:30-3:00
Specials 3:00-3:30

So daily T-F, not counting small group times, every student will have ~100 minutes/day synchronous with me plus specials.

How often will an individual student have small group sessions?

[Anonymous]

Although those are the hours for your classes, I'm not sure all of that will really be "live instruction." I think they are going to just be given instruction to do their homework some of the time, or work on a project etc, without any real teacher supervision. That was my impression, I could be wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach a primary grade. Our looks like this:

Morning Meeting 9:00-9:30
Math Focus Lesson 9:45-10:05
Small Group 10:05-10:25
Small Group 10:35-10:55
Specialized Instruction 11:00-11:30
SS/Sci 11:30-12:00
Lunch/Recess 12:00-1:00
Reading/Writing Focus Lesson 1:00-1:20
Small Group 1:30-1:50
Small Group 2:00-2:20
Break 2:30-3:00
Specials 3:00-3:30

So daily T-F, not counting small group times, every student will have ~100 minutes/day synchronous with me plus specials.

How often will an individual student have small group sessions?

I believe we are shooting for at least one LA and one math each week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is MTSS?

To your actual post, I agree. The worst part is that the insistence on synchronous specials means that some kids are forced into shedules that will use up all their attention on the fluff and they will be burned out for the day by the time the actual important subjects happen. If we get a schedule like that I may pull to homeschool before that 9/30 "count day".

It stands for MultiTiered Systems of Support.

In other words, another phony and tacky acronym to take away accountability from lazy students and adding more work to teachers so they can “help” and “guide” and “check” over missing work, etc.

You know, it’s all about raising snowflakes and sh1t

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is MTSS?

To your actual post, I agree. The worst part is that the insistence on synchronous specials means that some kids are forced into shedules that will use up all their attention on the fluff and they will be burned out for the day by the time the actual important subjects happen. If we get a schedule like that I may pull to homeschool before that 9/30 "count day".

It stands for MultiTiered Systems of Support.

In other words, another phony and tacky acronym to take away accountability from lazy students and adding more work to teachers so they can “help” and “guide” and “check” over missing work, etc.

You know, it’s all about raising snowflakes and sh1t

I thought that was for esol and the like. Do schools really have a special time for K, 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders who are lazy? I mean, do lazy k, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students even exists? Maybe is the teacher who is lazy? And doesn't want to work and just stay eating home "teaching" from her couch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach a primary grade. Our looks like this:

Morning Meeting 9:00-9:30
Math Focus Lesson 9:45-10:05
Small Group 10:05-10:25
Small Group 10:35-10:55
Specialized Instruction 11:00-11:30
SS/Sci 11:30-12:00
Lunch/Recess 12:00-1:00
Reading/Writing Focus Lesson 1:00-1:20
Small Group 1:30-1:50
Small Group 2:00-2:20
Break 2:30-3:00
Specials 3:00-3:30

So daily T-F, not counting small group times, every student will have ~100 minutes/day synchronous with me plus specials.

If the student is not in the group, the student would have a screen time break.

I guess the actual teacher also needs breaks.

[Anonymous]

80 minute class
15 minute break
80 minute class
55 minute lunch
80 minute class
15 minute break
80 minute class

So that's 320 minutes (5.33 hours) of class each day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:80 minute class
15 minute break
80 minute class
55 minute lunch
80 minute class
15 minute break
80 minute class

So that's 320 minutes (5.33 hours) of class each day.

What grade? That seems way too long but my kids are in elementary.