Virtual Learning for Elementary School-Description by Our Principal
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Anonymous
I don't see any chance of that happening - there just aren't enough hours allotted |
Anonymous
Yeah, we saw that show in the spring and don’t want any reruns on that. |
Anonymous
A class of 26 students, 4 small groups? Off the top of my head- 10 min morning attendance/meeting 25 min math lesson 60 min math groups-10-15 min check for understanding, students who need more help attend office hours 20 min ELA lesson 80 min for reading groups/book clubs 20 minute ss/science 30 minute special = 215 minutes plus office hours for the classroom teacher and 30 min for the specials teacher. Each student gets a small group Math and reading group 4 x a week. This is a bare bones schedule that doesn’t include any extras but gets the basics taught. |
Anonymous
is 8 kids a small group and is 26 a reasonable number- I thought the intent was for DL classes to be larger |
Anonymous
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I think that’s 6-7 kids per group...
Our school classes are around 20 so 26 would larger, for us. Did they say what the max size would be? |
Anonymous
| If full time in school provided a good education, how many hours can you shave off and still expect similar results? DL right now puts them in school for half the hours that they used to be (best case). You can get creative with scheduling all you want, but with half the hours to work with, I don't foresee good results |
Anonymous
It isn’t if you remember that FCPS will be signing contracts with the teachers that state how much time they work each day, and how much is student contact. So, they need a standard for teachers— x amount of face time, x amount of office hours, x amount of planning. They don’t sign a contract with you guaranteeing anything. |
Anonymous
They're aiming for 24 kids, but laws allow up to 35 for the older Elementary kids, and 30 for the younger ones. |
Anonymous
Yup. DD's teachers did a really good job with something like 1:15 of instruction time (yes, including small groups on occasion), and if the DL teachers did the same, but with even an extra 30 minutes of instruction, they can more than adequately cover the curriculum. |
Anonymous
+1. Younger kid have the attention span of gnats and need a mix of large groups, small groups, individual help and frequent breaks. They can’t since and listen to an online math lesson for an hour. They can do a 15 minute lesson the work on something in small groups in breakout rooms with the teacher popping in to check on their progress. It looks like FacPs will do a mix of large and small, then use office time for individual groups. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
It depends on class size. They say virtual will be bigger. If they get 30-32 kids into 6 reading groups, and teacher can do 15 min with each every other class. So twice a week. I know the say they will state within state guidelines, but my third grader was in a class of 33 with no IA. The in school cohort will likely also have daily reading groups. But only 12-15 kids. So, three groups with daily instruction, which also ends up at twice a week. |
Anonymous
For DL they are saying they will fill classes up to the state quota. It can be up to 29 in K with an IA (24 without), 30 kids in 1-3, 35 kids in grades 4-6. Plus, they Also have look at average class size. Hybrid kids are capped because of social distancing at 24 per teacher in most ES classes. Title 1 schools will also bring the average down. I wish people really looked at each plan carefully and stopped listening to the DL only teachers union. You are being given unrealistic expectations. |
Anonymous
I definitely will be if when go back to all DL. Hybrid classes will also meet 4x a week, but with 24 kids, not 34. |
Anonymous
We were told to expect a max out of the 30/35. I know they want to try to go smaller in a Title I. |