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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools should resume in the fall.  period.  If teachers can't handle it, then FCPS has all summer to find people that can handle it.  [/quote]

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yup [/quote]

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Yup.

The most obvious solution is for school to open for this who need or want it. Families who have concerns can watch live feed of their classrooms and learn that way. [/quote]

If you watched a live stream of my 90 minute high school class you would spend the majority of the time watching students working in pairs, doing activities, or moving around the classroom.  I don't know how watching that would help a student alone at home learn.  I don't lecture all class, I don't just give worksheets.  That is part of why distance learning is so hard.  But I really don't see how a student would learn watching from home.  [/quote]

[b]Schools must come to terms with the idea that learning in groups is ineffective. Return to lectures. [/b]When I was in high school, we never worked in pairs in social studies classes.  A teacher—who was an expert in their subject matter—LECTURED on the constitution, or the civil rights, or macroeconomic theories.  This is what schools must do going forward. Toss aside the group work. It sucked anyway. Build knowledge, teach how to think critically, analyze works, and so on.

And then, set up a web camera so students at home can watch the lecture and ask/answer questions. [/quote]

As a teacher, I agree with this I HATE group work and much prefer lecture style classes. However, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for the education establishment to give up on group work. The education colleges love it, and have spent decades railing against the “sage on the stage”. Most teachers and educators are uncomfortable admitting that they prefer traditional styles of teaching, because it’s been so demonized by people who don’t have to actually be on a classroom and manage the behaviors of children “engaged” in group work, who spend most of the time socializing with each other than actually doing their assignments. 
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