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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather than training (I'm a professor, I had to pivot too, and this is not rocket science), all districts need to hold teachers accountable: x hours synchronous each day, mandatory individual check-ins with students x times per week, less busywork, more content and rigor, one app.

Stop posting Instagram shots of your garden projects during work hours, etc.

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Many at my school were working 18 hour days to deliver a few decent hours of synchronous learning and more asynchronous content. As the spring went on, we could scale it back some.  The grading/feedback loop was a challenge because we were asked not to penalize kids in case they didn't have access.   I'll see my garden when I retire.  Looking at the risk factor, animosity directed at us and family worry about my returning to the classroom, that retirement may be sooner than I'd planned.[/quote]

I see this comment from teachers on this forum frequently.  I don't know whether to be amazed by the hours, or embarrassed for this poster.  90% of parents were unhappy with DL.  So if teachers were spending 18 hours a day working, and that's the results we got.... jeez, it seems like teachers are really, really bad at working.  Every other professional that had to immediately shift to working from home had around a 2 week learning curve, and then most were up and running. How come at 3 months, teachers were apparently working 18 hour days and still producing shit work product? Our experience with DL teachers made me think far less of our teachers' competence. Like, can you really not come up with a bulleted email list of weekly to-do items? Do you not know how to email a website link?  It was shocking to me how much less professional and competent they seemed than other professionals. I feel like it would be better to just admit you only worked 2-3 hours a day, than to claim you were working nonstop.  [/quote]

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