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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you counting the reading and math time? Sometimes it’s independent work and sometimes it’s teacher- led, but it still would count as instruction. That adds up to about 3 hours. I’m guessing that the science, social studies, and perhaps other instruction periods would include activities that could add up to a total of 3.5. [/quote]

I don’t get your math. If the child is working alone, that’s not instructional time. Even on OPs schedule, if it’s the child’s day for both reading and math groups, it’s well below 3.5 hours.[/quote]

I am counting the independent work as "instructional time".  Students frequently do independent work in their classrooms while teachers work with other groups of students in the classroom.  I don't see this as being any different. [/quote]

can you help a student doing independent work if they have a question? If a student gets stuck, can they receive help? If the answer to either is no, it's homework renamed to sound palatable [/quote]

In the school setting, when the teacher is teaching a small group, the kids are not allowed to interrupt the reading or math group to ask questions either. Think about why this might be. They might go to the designated students - these kids are the kids who know their stuff and have been tasked with the responsibility to answer other kids' questions - to ask for help. No teacher with good classroom management allows kids to just walk to their table when they're teaching to ask a question like "How do you do #1?" It's all part of classroom management. There are a few emergency cases where the student is allowed to interrupt the teacher that involves safety issues like the kid needs to see the nurse right away, or something to that effect.

So why do you think it would work differently online? You want kids to just show up into the virtual meeting location where the teacher is teaching a group, and demand to have a question answered? Do you want other kids to do that when your own kid is in a group?[/quote]

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