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[quote=Anonymous]What didn’t work were zoom meetings with the entire class, kids couldn’t talk when they wanted to do so and kids got bored.  A teacher on another class at our school had video calls with students one to one, and my friend said that worked really well.  The teacher called each student twice a week, which allowed her to give the student an assignment during one call and then to discuss the final product at the next call. The few videos the teacher produced were not very helpful, because, unsurprisingly and despite best efforts, the production quality was no where near what the students are used to from PBS, etc. What also didn’t work was sending links to handwriting without tears and leaving to to the parents to figure out how to teach the lessons to the students.

My suggestion for next year would be:

1. One on one calls between students and the teachers, or, in the alternative, calls with no more than two or three students.

2. I don’t expect teachers to be able to accomplish everything they would in the classroom via a video.  I recognize that I will need to help and do some of the lessons at home.  So I could use some coaching.  First, please have written lesson plans that you can share so that I know what to do, how to do it, what the goal of the lesson is, and how it fits into the curriculum and developmental goals.  Second, please provide an instructional video of how you would present the lesson.  Even if you make a video for the student to watch, it would be helpful to have a parent edition of the lesson that explains the lesson to me so that I can help my child when she watches the lesson. Third, have zoom meeting drop in office hours so I can ask questions about the lessons.

Sorry for typos, writing on a phone.[/quote]

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