MD state Board Meeting on Sept 1 2020 to set new distance learning time limits

[Anonymous]

The Maryland State Board of Education is meeting on Tuesday, Sept 1, 9 AM to consider an item on Student Engagement. The recommendations include 1.5 (Pre-K) to 5 (High School) synchronous hours, and asynchronous hours to make the daily total instruction 6 hours (3 hours for half-day programs). PGCPS’ schedule does not currently meet all recommendations.

The recommendations:

• Schools must be open for students at least 180 school days.
• All schools must include at least a total of six hours per day.
• A school day for each local school system must include the recommended minimum number of hours of synchronous instruction for each grade band per day, five days per week as indicated in the table.
• Half day pre-K school day for each local school system must include a minimum of 1.5 hours of synchronous instruction per day, five days per week.
• School systems that have indicated that they are not returning students in person until second semester should reevaluate their reopening plans by the end of the first quarter (after nine weeks).
• Recommended minimum hours need to be implemented by September 28.

The full slide presentation is available online: http://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Pages/meeting-agendas/2020/2020-09-01.aspx

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The amount of live learning for high school is too much. 5 hours of Zoom live instruction required, every day? I am an adult and I can't last through 5 hours of Zoom for more than a few days.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Every recommendation for live instruction should be cut in half.

Full day preK should be 1 hour.

K-2 should be 1.5 hours live, another 0.5 to 1 hour asynchronous (learning new material via a lesson or video) and 0.5 - 1 hour independent work.


3-5 should be 2 hours live Zoom lessons. 2 hours asynchonronous (learning new material) and 1 hours independent work.

6- 8 should be 6 hours total. 2.5 hours Zoom live lessons. 2 hours asynchronous, 1.5 hours independent practice


9-12 should be 8 hours total including HW time. 2.5 hours Zoom live lessons, 2.5 hours asynchronous (flipped classroom) and 3 hours independent practice and HW

[Anonymous]

What’s the difference between in person class instruction and live on Zoom? My high schooler has appr. 4.5-5 hours of in class instruction each day. How is 5 hrs of online instruction too much? Parents bitched that there wasn’t enough live instruction in the spring and now it’s too much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between in person class instruction and live on Zoom? My high schooler has appr. 4.5-5 hours of in class instruction each day. How is 5 hrs of online instruction too much? Parents bitched that there wasn’t enough live instruction in the spring and now it’s too much?

It's the same thing.

Has your high schooler actually been doing 5 hours of live instruction on Zoom daily? For how many weeks?

I feel it is far too much time online. 5 days a week. Your child has been doing OK with it?

[Anonymous]

As a parent, I certainly wasn't bitching about not enough live instruction. I think 3 hours daily would be best for high school. Along with asynchronous learning they could do on their own time (accessing prerecorded lectures, videos, working in a textbook or off a screen etc.)

I would like to see for example a very small group one hour Spanish class weekly for conversational skills plus several hours a week of on their own time learning activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every recommendation for live instruction should be cut in half.

Full day preK should be 1 hour.

K-2 should be 1.5 hours live, another 0.5 to 1 hour asynchronous (learning new material via a lesson or video) and 0.5 - 1 hour independent work.


3-5 should be 2 hours live Zoom lessons. 2 hours asynchonronous (learning new material) and 1 hours independent work.

6- 8 should be 6 hours total. 2.5 hours Zoom live lessons. 2 hours asynchronous, 1.5 hours independent practice


9-12 should be 8 hours total including HW time. 2.5 hours Zoom live lessons, 2.5 hours asynchronous (flipped classroom) and 3 hours independent practice and HW

+1

[Anonymous]

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Oregon State recommendations for HS:

According to the plan, school days can last up to seven hours for high schoolers if they max out their time for digital learning (three hours), supplemental activities like reading and crafting (two hours), and nutrition and wellness breaks (two hours) that include meals, handwashing and physical activity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between in person class instruction and live on Zoom? My high schooler has appr. 4.5-5 hours of in class instruction each day. How is 5 hrs of online instruction too much? Parents bitched that there wasn’t enough live instruction in the spring and now it’s too much?

It's the same thing.

Has your high schooler actually been doing 5 hours of live instruction on Zoom daily? For how many weeks?

I feel it is far too much time online. 5 days a week. Your child has been doing OK with it?

He did it in the spring. He hasn’t started school yet this year but he will be following his regular schedule which is 6 classes per day. They are 45 minutes classes. I think Wednesday will be just half credit classes like electives. I haven’t seen the schedule for Wednesday yet.

[Anonymous]

He did a full 5 hours a day of online classes all spring? What school district was this?

[Anonymous]

According to the MD state Dept of Ed, even Wednesdays will need to be 5 hours of online instruction daily for all students in HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He did a full 5 hours a day of online classes all spring? What school district was this?

BTW if the teacher gives a 15 minute lesson, then tells the students to go somewhere and do an assignment -- that's 15 min. of live time and 30 minutes of independent practice which doesn't count towards the live requirement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He did a full 5 hours a day of online classes all spring? What school district was this?

Private Catholic school. Not in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He did a full 5 hours a day of online classes all spring? What school district was this?

BTW if the teacher gives a 15 minute lesson, then tells the students to go somewhere and do an assignment -- that's 15 min. of live time and 30 minutes of independent practice which doesn't count towards the live requirement.

Most of his classes are lectures. They assigned work to be done after the school day ended. It was basically like a normal school day. It took about two weeks for this schedule to occur. The first two weeks were more like 2 hours of live instruction per day.

[Anonymous]

Thank God!

Be honest, no one really does the asynchronous trading.