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[quote=Anonymous]Have a rising 8th grader at Deal and I’d like to see increased live instructional time.  I don’t think my kid should be in a virtual classroom from 9-3 M-F, but there needs to be more live instruction than what we did in the Spring, which was 30 minutes once a week with each teacher.  And many times the teacher didn’t teach during that 30 minutes but treated it like office hours.  Here is my wish list:

Live instruction with each core teacher for 45 minutes at least 2 times a week.

Scheduled office hours with each teacher every day when they can drop in for questions and extra instruction. [like Grit - available every day. Not just 30 minutes on Tuesday]

Organized clear instruction to the students about assignments and when they are due.  School needs to find a way to target this information better.  Students should not have to read the entire weekly bulletin, click on the link for World languages, and then reach the entire World Languages newsletter to decipher the assignments for French 1.  In school students were taught to write down all assignments in their planner.  They need to find a way to replicate that process in a digital environment so students can organize their time and work.

Assignments scheduled with some flexibility on the ability to work ahead.  My Deal student used to do a lot of work on the weekends to “get ahead”, but that was impossible during DL because assignments were not announced in advance and many “opened and closed” on a strict schedule.

I would like teachers to stay on top of their grading.  Some teachers are always a challenge, but overall it seemed much worse during DL probably due to changing instructions on grading, but since that is the only way for students to check and make they don’t have missing assignments, its not helpful when all the grading is dumped in the last week fo the advisory.

I would like teachers to actually grade assignments and provide feedback.  For some reason, my students were regularly asked to complete work but not turn it in - or turn it in but get no feedback on it.  Only stuff with an automated program like math would give the student feedback on what they needed to work on.  I recognize that this may require everyone to learn new vehicles for communication, but its a necessity.

Skip resources all together.  What is the point of distanced PE?  Just makes it more painful than needed.

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