Will MCPS staff get paid during shutdown?

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Anonymous wrote:If they get paid, why aren’t they teaching? It takes little time to put lessons up. So many public school districts are doing it nationwide. MCPS is abysmal and embarrassing

Little time to put up lessons? YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

My nieces and nephews online classes thru zoom and you tube started on Monday. They started preparing back in February. Their teachers give video lessons on math with a print out recommended (but not needed) to follow along. Then they go to online work and quizzes and submit them back to their math teacher each day. She emailed them back emails that were personable and encouraging. Literacy is based on science, SS, or fiction with writing and repeat backs sent back to their teachers. They are in 3rd and 5th. Not sure what other grades are like.

So, yes this can easily happen for ES teachers who teach the same 25 kids every day. They can upload a 1 hour video lesson and link up supportive work. It is very easy to post a you tube video and link it. I mean an 8 yr old knows how to do that.

Providing links to lessons that others have spent hours, days, months crafting is not, in my book, "putting up lessons". Sure adding a link to someone else's work is easy peasy, but providing and creating that ORIGINAL content, that takes time.

Agree. This is abysmal.

What about the kids in compacted going to IM and so forth. How can they be ready for the next course in Sept when we go back

They put up you tube videos of THEMSELVES teaching to their own ES students daily. So yes, it is original. Do you know what you need? A phone, a white board, dry erase markets, and a computer to upload to a private you tube URL. 1 hour once a day for one teacher is not hard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If they get paid, why aren’t they teaching? It takes little time to put lessons up. So many public school districts are doing it nationwide. MCPS is abysmal and embarrassing

Little time to put up lessons? YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

My nieces and nephews online classes thru zoom and you tube started on Monday. They started preparing back in February. Their teachers give video lessons on math with a print out recommended (but not needed) to follow along. Then they go to online work and quizzes and submit them back to their math teacher each day. She emailed them back emails that were personable and encouraging. Literacy is based on science, SS, or fiction with writing and repeat backs sent back to their teachers. They are in 3rd and 5th. Not sure what other grades are like.

So, yes this can easily happen for ES teachers who teach the same 25 kids every day. They can upload a 1 hour video lesson and link up supportive work. It is very easy to post a you tube video and link it. I mean an 8 yr old knows how to do that.

Providing links to lessons that others have spent hours, days, months crafting is not, in my book, "putting up lessons". Sure adding a link to someone else's work is easy peasy, but providing and creating that ORIGINAL content, that takes time.

Teachers are being paid for what, 8 hours a day. They can certainly do it in that time. Or, just use others links and provide actual work.