Teachers, which subject is easiest to switch to an online format?

[Anonymous]

I teach middle school math, and honestly I did not find it that difficult to switch my lessons to an online format. For the most part, I was able to post my notes, and work through examples the same as I would if in class. I can imagine that other subjects would be much harder to transition into an online format. I’m curious as to what subjects other teachers think is the easiest and hardest to transition to an online format. I should also specify, I’m referring specifically to the four core academic areas. Not P.E., band etc.

[Anonymous]

I teach prek, so nothing was easy. Or maybe it was easy to think of ideas but it’s totally dependent on parents to complete.
I have 2 kids in upper elementary and middle, our experience was that they really didn’t learn much. And they both were diligent about attending, watching, completing and turning in assignments. I’m glad it was easy for you, but, at least for my kids, it wasn’t particularly meaningful.

[Anonymous]

The English department gave it the highest rating, except the reading teachers who were the second lowest. Math was in third place behind the Tech/Art dept. I teach Social studies and found it a lot of work digitizing or replacing instructional materials. We only had class sets of atlases and primary source readers so we couldn’t send them home. I am going to jail over the copyright violations. I never show full videos, but I often show a clip for a warm up or to spark conversation. I had to buy a lot of those on Amazon because my school issued Chromebook doesn’t play DVDs.

[Anonymous]

I teach upper level math and found that teaching and classes were not difficult. Creating the slides and doing problems out on the computer was really cumbersome.

[Anonymous]

reading in the lower elementary grades is by far the hardest.

[Anonymous]

MS math here, and I also didn’t find it difficult.

[Anonymous]

MS math and probably all secondary math works really well online. A flipped classroom approach is great. I did taped lessons and then used my live Zoom times to answer questions. It also was pretty easy to transition my warm-ups and exit tickets to online. All of our grade level's quizzes and tests are online already so we could easily administer those through DL. There may be some cheating but we could make the process as tight as possible with a few things we've discussed as a team and I'm not willing to put forth here.

[Anonymous]

It sounds sad that you can all put your classes "online" and take the human element out of education.

[Anonymous]

Any grade where the students can’t yet read. I teach 1st grade in a Title One school and DL has been pretty useless. We had to use Google Classroom even though it is for older students. Most of my students are ESOL students whose parents don’t speak English and do my colleagues and I would post work in English and Spanish. We quickly discovered that most of the parents couldn’t read in Spanish. So we had students who could barely read and parents who couldn’t read. Sigh. It’s been a very long 3 months.

[Anonymous]

Physical education

[Anonymous]

I teach special education English and math to small classes of high schoolers who are significantly behind (early elementary level skills). English has been far easier than math. For math, my students need to be able to touch manipulatives, play games, etc . . . and all those things are hard online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any grade where the students can’t yet read. I teach 1st grade in a Title One school and DL has been pretty useless. We had to use Google Classroom even though it is for older students. Most of my students are ESOL students whose parents don’t speak English and do my colleagues and I would post work in English and Spanish. We quickly discovered that most of the parents couldn’t read in Spanish. So we had students who could barely read and parents who couldn’t read. Sigh. It’s been a very long 3 months.

Are you answering the question in the title, or the opposite? I'm the special educator who teachers both English and math, and I'd say that my kids who don't read are much harder to help online.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The English department gave it the highest rating, except the reading teachers who were the second lowest. Math was in third place behind the Tech/Art dept. I teach Social studies and found it a lot of work digitizing or replacing instructional materials. We only had class sets of atlases and primary source readers so we couldn’t send them home. I am going to jail over the copyright violations. I never show full videos, but I often show a clip for a warm up or to spark conversation. I had to buy a lot of those on Amazon because my school issued Chromebook doesn’t play DVDs.

Are you familiar with Big History Project? All OER. No need for digitizing. No copyright violations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds sad that you can all put your classes "online" and take the human element out of education.

Did you read all the posts? That is not what people are saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The English department gave it the highest rating, except the reading teachers who were the second lowest. Math was in third place behind the Tech/Art dept. I teach Social studies and found it a lot of work digitizing or replacing instructional materials. We only had class sets of atlases and primary source readers so we couldn’t send them home. I am going to jail over the copyright violations. I never show full videos, but I often show a clip for a warm up or to spark conversation. I had to buy a lot of those on Amazon because my school issued Chromebook doesn’t play DVDs.

Are you familiar with Big History Project? All OER. No need for digitizing. No copyright violations.

Yes, but it is not approved by MCPS.