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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have a sense or inside information if virtual classrooms with student's teachers will happen if this goes past the two weeks?  My 6th grader has almost finished the materials provided by MCPS. I'm trying to find other resources but I also need to work. Plus it would be great for kids to see their teachers and classmates, even if just through a computer screen for a couple of hours a day. Hoping it's in the works...[/quote]

I know people who work in curricular planning, and they are reporting to work right during the "emergency period" to prepare online materials. So, I think we'll have something by the end of the two weeks. With that said, I think it will be a little bit longer before we see resources for immersion kids,  magnet kids in general, or kids with special needs. It makes sense - MCPS is going to hit the biggest swathe of kids first, and then pick up the ones whose needs are outside the mainstream. [/quote]

Throwing materials up on a website is NOT teaching.  You need a scope and sequence, objectives, "chunked" instructional materials that build toward a culminating activity (paper, project, test), etc.

Who's going to do that?

I don't care if the instructional specialists and  their supervisors/coordinators are being called in to work. That's their job anyway (until we're under total lockdown, that is).

But guess what? I don't need them to do this for me, as I'm trained in online instruction. I've built frameworks. I can make sense of the mess they post online.

Not everyone can. I am rare.

When MCPS adopted an LMS - whether that was Canvas or Haiku or apparently now - Synergy - TRAIN the teachers in the right way. This is inexcusable where we are! [/quote]

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