If you have an elementary age child in FCPS

[Anonymous]

So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

We were told one hour of live instruction is the minimum per day, and one hour of office hours. Mon-Thurs. Videos do not count for us as live instruction. Office hours can be by pre-made appointment only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5th grade- 1 hour Mon-Thursday.

Two 12 minute small group sessions twice a week.

A small assignment after each hour lesson that had like 3 questions.

It’s a joke how little they are doing.

Twelve minutes???!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

We were told one hour of live instruction is the minimum per day, and one hour of office hours. Mon-Thurs. Videos do not count for us as live instruction. Office hours can be by pre-made appointment only.

So I guess you stop doing the videos?

I honestly think my students get more out of watching my pre-recorded ~10 minute video, completing an activity and receiving feedback than they would if I tried to do it live online with an entire class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

The two hours include office hours, read alouds, morning meetings and can be with any teacher.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

We were told one hour of live instruction is the minimum per day, and one hour of office hours. Mon-Thurs. Videos do not count for us as live instruction. Office hours can be by pre-made appointment only.

So I guess you stop doing the videos?

I honestly think my students get more out of watching my pre-recorded ~10 minute video, completing an activity and receiving feedback than they would if I tried to do it live online with an entire class.

I am a parent of two elementary school students and my kids definitely get more out of the recordings as far as actual learning goes. They do love some love interaction with the teacher and classmates, but usually have a harder time learning from the live lessons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th grade- 1 hour Mon-Thursday.

Two 12 minute small group sessions twice a week.

A small assignment after each hour lesson that had like 3 questions.

It’s a joke how little they are doing.

Twelve minutes???!

YES it is so stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

The two hours include office hours, read alouds, morning meetings and can be with any teacher.

So if the teacher is "available" for 1 hour for office hours, that counts as 1 out of the 2 daily hours of "teaching"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

We were told one hour of live instruction is the minimum per day, and one hour of office hours. Mon-Thurs. Videos do not count for us as live instruction. Office hours can be by pre-made appointment only.

So I guess you stop doing the videos?

I honestly think my students get more out of watching my pre-recorded ~10 minute video, completing an activity and receiving feedback than they would if I tried to do it live online with an entire class.

I am a parent of two elementary school students and my kids definitely get more out of the recordings as far as actual learning goes. They do love some love interaction with the teacher and classmates, but usually have a harder time learning from the live lessons.

I wouldn't know. Our "live" online classes don't start until next week, but the teacher hasn't posted any recorded videos, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

The two hours include office hours, read alouds, morning meetings and can be with any teacher.

So if the teacher is "available" for 1 hour for office hours, that counts as 1 out of the 2 daily hours of "teaching"?

At our school it does not. For all the layers of FCPS administration, there is a lot of confusion about this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

We were told one hour of live instruction is the minimum per day, and one hour of office hours. Mon-Thurs. Videos do not count for us as live instruction. Office hours can be by pre-made appointment only.

So I guess you stop doing the videos?

I honestly think my students get more out of watching my pre-recorded ~10 minute video, completing an activity and receiving feedback than they would if I tried to do it live online with an entire class.

I am a parent of two elementary school students and my kids definitely get more out of the recordings as far as actual learning goes. They do love some love interaction with the teacher and classmates, but usually have a harder time learning from the live lessons.

My daughter is getting so much out of the live classes. I can’t imagine the same level of interaction or thoughtful questions from something prerecorded.

[Anonymous]

4th grader in a 35% (IIRC) FARMS school.

10 minutes of morning meeting, 30 minutes of LA, and 30 minutes of Math, Monday -Thursday. 1 hour of office hours those days. Plus the LA teacher reads to the kids daily (but DD already read the book and isn’t participating).

This week, DD has 15 minutes of book club and 15 minutes of small groups for math. She had 30 minutes of lunch bunch and another invite she did not take up.

The kids are getting a ton of assignments and quizzes on Google Classroom. Easily 3-4 hours worth of work daily, longer on some days (tomorrow is one of them). LA instruction is commingled with Social Studies and Science as well. They are apparently getting a Horizon assessment on Monday.

Overall, DD assesses that they are doing A LOT more work now than they were doing in school, since there are no distractions.

The kids have specials too; we’re ignoring them for now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how are some schools scheduling only 2 hours per week?

I don't know. I teach and we were told the minimum expectation was two hours synchronous Mon-Thurs. I find it hard to believe that other schools are only doing two hours total per week

I teach as well. We were told an hour a day of office hours and an hour a day of direct instruction. Direct instruction can be videos or live.

We were told one hour of live instruction is the minimum per day, and one hour of office hours. Mon-Thurs. Videos do not count for us as live instruction. Office hours can be by pre-made appointment only.

So I guess you stop doing the videos?

I honestly think my students get more out of watching my pre-recorded ~10 minute video, completing an activity and receiving feedback than they would if I tried to do it live online with an entire class.

I am a parent of two elementary school students and my kids definitely get more out of the recordings as far as actual learning goes. They do love some love interaction with the teacher and classmates, but usually have a harder time learning from the live lessons.

If the teachers are now told to start doing live lessons instead of the recorded lessons, how would you feel about that?