Why are our teachers being paid to do 0-30 minutes of teaching every day?
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Anonymous
Because teaching is different you idiot |
Anonymous
I wouldn't be so fast to knock them. First of all, they are not professional educators. Second of all, most of them are trying to hold down a full-time job at the same time. We're all in this together, aren't we? |
Anonymous
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Those of you comparing teleworking to teaching a classroom of 30 kids via Zoom are just plain stupid.
Most you have likely been teleworking for years. Are you spending 8 hours per day on Zoom interacting with co-workers and clients? Did you have to change your entire business model to accommodate teleworking? Let's be honest, teleworking for most of us is essentially no different than our normal day to day. Only difference is we use a VPN to access files. E-mail is same, office phones can be forwarded to cell phones, conference call still occur. |
Anonymous
I pray to God that you don't work with children. Or as you prefer to call them, "brats". |
Anonymous
| I'm an educator for MCPS. What I think some critics don't realize is that we had to have a starting point. We are literally reshaping what education looks like in our country after 200+ years of doing the same old thing. We are slowly ramping up because the writing is on the walls and we are going to be in this for the long haul. Most of us realize by now that we probably won't be back this year. Once we get these tech issues figured out we can begin layering in SS and Science content. From there, more small group instruction for literacy. We can't launch all of this at one time and it be even remotely effective. I live in Frederick county and our kids are just getting assignments on their Google Classrooms Monday morning and it's all due by Friday. For parents of elementary students it's all on us. There is NO contact from the teachers. We will get there with the instruction but please be patient. |
Anonymous
You can’t compare a lecture-based course for ADULTS to teaching primary grades over zoom. My 2nd grader’s normal school day is broken up into 15-20 minutes blocks in which they are moving around, switching activities, doing projects, specials, etc. these little kids do not have the attention span to sit and listen to a 45 minute lecture. They can barely type, if at all, so written “chat” based questions/commenting doesn’t work well. They talk over each other and aren’t used to how to raise a hand or signal they want to talk over zoom. It’s a mess. Primary teachers “lecture” for like a max of 10 minutes on any given topic, and then kids do activities to practice the skill or whatever. There’s experience with online learning for older kids and college students/adults. I’m not aware of models like that for ES. It’s completely different than how our ES are focused - on group work and interaction and moving from activity to activity without a lot of lecturing. It’s a really hard transition for teachers, and honestly there should probably be different approaches for primary (K-2) and upper elementary (3-5). Attention spans and ability to keep comments on topic are different for those age groups. I have a lot of respect for my kids’ teachers and I don’t doubt they are working hard. Are they working exactly the same number of hours as before? I have no idea. But they are working and trying to get instruction to our kids. My 5th grader has lots of substantive assignments, and she and her classmates are capable of a focused zoom “class” and a lot of independent work and written feedback, e-mails, etc. My second grader has never used e-mail and cannot receive instructions from her teacher that way. She can barely type and gets confused when the online platforms automatically spell check. There’s just only so much they can do with the little kids and if they manage to complete the year’s math curriculum I will be satisfied with that. At least now they’re getting to see their teacher and reconnect with their classmates. |
Anonymous
You know, teachers also pay taxes that pay teachers’ salaries. As do single 20-something’s and childless couples and people with adult children. You don’t own teachers. MCPS teachers were told by MCPS that the first two weeks were like snow days and that they were not supposed to be working. Because those days may be made-up during or at the end of the school year. This week, teachers were working but they didn’t have the two previous weeks to prep because they were told not to work and given very little explanation of what would be expected once distance learning started. For everyone who says “my company adapted quicker” I’d like to ask if all your clients and online meetings and communications happen with children? Because it is completely different to deal with other adults than to deal with children. Other adults also know how to use and can figure out how to use technology. Other adults use email and can type. Other adults have adult attention spans and adult abilities not to interrupt a meeting with irrelevant content. It’s completely different than dealing with kids and just not comparable. |
Anonymous
| All I can say is after trying to teach my child and help her the past few weeks - I have nothing but respect for her teachers. They aren't paid enough. |
Anonymous
| Thank you, teachers. |
Anonymous
Well, I can't believe someone is complaining about our taxes paying for the teachers when: there are people dying all around, with the lockdown just in the third week, and the whole model of teaching changing drastically, where the teachers are still trying to figure out how to go about their work. |
Anonymous
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I’m an MCPS elementary music teacher trying to upload my lesson plans in Canvas but hitting one roadblock after another.
I realized today at 6:30 am that the Chrombook supplied to me by my school is unable to read any external drive. I should have checked it but with only 30 minutes to grab items from school I didn’t. I switched to my a think-pad, opening and copying audio files Canvas, hit student view and found out that Canvass cannot read the type of MP3 files I have. I asked several teachers, even contacted a friend with a home studio , who guided me in converting the files to a different format ... only to have a distorted sound. I have been trying to solve this problem for over 8 hours at no avail. I’m not sure what the problem is as I’m not a sound technician. I’ve been in recording studios as a performer. I’m not complaining. It’s just that all this new way of doing things was thrown to us at once just a few days ago. We need to have accessible content published and ready to be viewed by Monday morning. We are trying to do a good job. Please be patient. |
Anonymous
I'm guessing (or at least hoping) that you aren't a history teacher. |
Anonymous
Unless you are in NYC, there are not "people dying all around." In Maryland, we've had 53 deaths in state of 6 million. Please don't use this as your argument. |
Anonymous
No, at the most fundamental, it’s not. -Former teacher |
Anonymous
There you go. Pp what I'm saying is that teachers are told how this is happening. Maybe the lessons you are seeing take 45 mins without the factors that happen in a classroom.? |