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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for MCPS.  It is sounding more and more like the "support model" will be used if schools return.  Like others have posted, students who opt in for returning to school will be in a classroom with an adult.  The student will be spaced six feet away from the other kids and will log onto Zoom and continue learning the same way he/she did at home.  The adult in the room might be a para who is supporting them (i.e. - babysitting) or could be a teacher who is also leading their own Zoom class.  I can't imagine being a seven year old sitting in a classroom on Zoom being distracted by the teacher at the front of the room who is teaching another set of kids on Zoom who are learning at home or in another room.  
  The way it was explained to us is that most classrooms would only have 12 students.  In my second grade classroom, I might be teaching my 21 students on Zoom.  Of my 21 students, many of them will be virtual (based on their responses) but I'll have a mix of kids in my physical classroom.  Some of them will be on Zoom with me (in the same room) while the rest will be on Zoom with my teammates who are teaching from home.   
Personally, I wish we could do the direct model.  12 kids in the classroom with a teacher who is leading direct instruction like "normal".  I know parents/teachers don't want to lose their classes but this support model looks like a disaster.  I'd much rather have a new set of kids with me in my physical space if it means we can stay off Zoom and learn together in a traditional sense.[/quote]
If you think Paras "babysit", you have no idea what's going on in classrooms. [/quote]

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