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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I feel like the county expectations were very poorly communicated. My principal told us we need to do an hour of direct instruction a day, which can be live or through videos. The other hour is office hours. I’ve heard on here that Dr. Brabrand has said an hour of synchronous instruction. In the materials that were reviewed with us before starting, this was not said anywhere. My team does a mix of live instruction and videos each day and do small groups during office hours. Some teams at my school do just recorded videos and also do small groups for office hours. If we continue in the fall, I would like to see some clear communication so we can have more consistency,[/quote]

I am honestly curious—what did your materials says the expectation was? This would certainly explain the confusion and makes more sense
than “principals ignoring FCPS standards”....[/quote]

[b]It said an hour of direct instruction. It did not say synchronous[/b]. The way my school interpreted it was that prerecorded videos were okay to meet this requirement. I personally like the mix of both that we are doing. All of my students are not able to make my live lessons do they are recorded, and then we have other videos posted for the day as well. We have received more positive than negative feedback with the way we are doing things. I don’t think we can make everyone happy. I think it would be helpful to have consistency so that parents aren’t competing between schools and even grade levels in the same school.[/quote]

This is interesting. It sounds like Braband gave the orders for one hour per day thinking everyone understood that to mean "live" and the schools interpreted it much more broadly than he intended. [b]My guess is the people complaining about their child only getting 1-2 hours per week "live" with their teacher are at schools where the principal liberally allowed "direct instruction" to include office hours[/b]. [/quote]

Agree this is the most likely expectation for the huge discrepancies. [/quote]

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