DL: How many hours a day?

[Anonymous]

Parents and teachers:

Let's go ahead and say that school will be virtual next year. Does anybody have any idea how many hours a day the kids will be expected to "be at school"?

My kids will be in PK3 and K..and just trying to figure out/think about a possible schedule.

TIA

[Anonymous]

I missed most of it, but the townhall streaming right now might answer your question, when it's ready for re-watching. https://www.facebook.com/MayorMurielBowser/videos/306464973740966/

[Anonymous]

DCPS has giving zero guidance. I plan to do 1.5 staggered hours worth of instruction for each student live.
1 hour asynchronous

And 1-2 hours of work at home, that is not on the computer or just worksheets

[Anonymous]

Our charter school already announced next year’s schedule. It’s almost exactly the same hours as normal: 8:45 to 3-something. I really like how they’ve divvied up the hours. This is a middle school, and they’re doing 30 mins synchronous learning/45 mins asynchronous/15 minute break, three times a day. Plus lunch. That’s three classes per day. The next day, they do the same schedule but with the other three classes. Teachers are available for an hour after school each day for individual help.

[Anonymous]

I'm a DCPS teacher and we haven't gotten any real guidance on this yet. I'm imagining that we will approximately follow a normal school day, and that I will be doing a mix of whole group instruction, small group instruction, and individual meetings with students, so students will be live with me some of the time and working on their own other times.

[Anonymous]

At the elementary level, I have heard there will be 2 days a week with live instruction and 1 day a week for small groups. Depending on grade level, it can be up to 3 hours of instruction on live instruction day. Breaks will be built into the learning.

[Anonymous]

It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher I had an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon of live time broken into four 30 minute blocks. My children who attend a different DCPS had anywhere between 1 and 2.5 hours of live time. OP can expect at least an hour of live time a day, maybe more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a DCPS teacher and we haven't gotten any real guidance on this yet. I'm imagining that we will approximately follow a normal school day, and that I will be doing a mix of whole group instruction, small group instruction, and individual meetings with students, so students will be live with me some of the time and working on their own other times.

Nope - working with their parents while they're parents try not to get fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a DCPS teacher and we haven't gotten any real guidance on this yet. I'm imagining that we will approximately follow a normal school day, and that I will be doing a mix of whole group instruction, small group instruction, and individual meetings with students, so students will be live with me some of the time and working on their own other times.

Nope - working with their parents while they're parents try not to get fired.

Really? In high school? You have to work with your high schooler?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a DCPS teacher and we haven't gotten any real guidance on this yet. I'm imagining that we will approximately follow a normal school day, and that I will be doing a mix of whole group instruction, small group instruction, and individual meetings with students, so students will be live with me some of the time and working on their own other times.

Nope - working with their parents while they're parents try not to get fired.

Really? In high school? You have to work with your high schooler?

The OP literally asked about PK3 and K and no one mentioned anything but elementary school. But sure, be an ass just for fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a DCPS teacher and we haven't gotten any real guidance on this yet. I'm imagining that we will approximately follow a normal school day, and that I will be doing a mix of whole group instruction, small group instruction, and individual meetings with students, so students will be live with me some of the time and working on their own other times.

Nope - working with their parents while they're parents try not to get fired.

I'm the PP, and I'm both a parent and a teacher. Like you, I'm not looking forward to balancing my job and helping my own kids with DL, and I definitely recognize that with younger kids parents will often be involved. It's super hard. By "working on their own", I meant not with direct teacher support, but I didn't mean to undervalue parent support.

[Anonymous]

We have not been given any guidance.
Honestly, what has DCPS been doing since March? Holding press conferences to speak in riddles & acting like chromebooks are something you should suffer for?
Demand more!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It better be more than last time. We got less than two hours of live teaching a week.

Our school had two, 25-min live sessions per week. Insane. It all fell to the parents. We’ve already been engaging the chancellor’s office to make sure our principal doesn’t pull this stunt again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have not been given any guidance.
Honestly, what has DCPS been doing since March? Holding press conferences to speak in riddles & acting like chromebooks are something you should suffer for?
Demand more!

I also think this is crazy. We know, at a minimum, there will be a distant learning option. Those details should be finalized as to how that works.