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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a side note to all those who think that music teachers are not working enough. The county pushes out objectives that teachers need to fill out by activities/recorded lessons/songs that best meet the needs of the school's population. Before publishing, we need to check "student view" as things can look fine from our side but not accessible by students. Even though not required by the county, numerous music teachers are doing weekly online instruction for each grade level. I never answered work emails on weekends unless absolutely necessary. Now I spend about 3-5 hours every weekend reading and replying to student/parent emails received late Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday. I am not complaining. However, please stop saying that we are being paid for doing minimal work. It's more work now. [/quote] We aren't getting anything from our music teacher. No lessons. That would be nice. Realize you may be working hard, but at other schools nothing is happening.[/quote] We are receiving stuff from the specials, but sorry - no one is spending 3-5hours a weekend replying to emails, ESPECIALLY music teachers. Give me a break. :roll: [/quote] This. Kids’ music teacher posted an activity literally 3 minutes before the class opened - a scavenger hunt - and then was befuddled when the kids responded they hadn’t already completed the scavenger hunt .... because it had just been sent out. Teacher then tells the kids to go do the scavenger hunt and to talk about it on the next class. Class was then dismissed. Total time in Zoom was about four minutes. Some quality instruction right there. [/quote] Yes, that scavenger hunt activity was provided and uploaded to Canvas by the county. All the music teacher had to do was click a button once a week to publish it to Canvas. The art teacher at my kids’ school is having similar issues learning how and when to click that button. [b]Someone must havele told her how to click that button once a week once parents started asking where the art assignments were, but she can’t get the schedule right and posts the oneck lesson in the wrong week [/b](one lesson per week for K-2 and then one the next week for 3-5), so assignments show up as overdue because she can’t keep the provided schedule straight. [/quote] Click a button????? I room with a teacher who receives lessons like "The student should able to ..." with a sample video which has to be replaced as it has nothing to do with music whatsoever. Roommate has to record lots of mini-lessons using several platforms, then play them back to see if everything works well. This screencastify thing has been a pain as it records but sometimes plays back well and other times plays for a few seconds and then stops. She needs these recordings to post online and to and for live teaching one hour per week for every grade level. Apparently most schools are only doing office hours and not live teachings and there is no homogeneity within the county.[/quote]
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