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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a high school teacher and have been excited to get back in the building. The idea of concurrent teaching has been difficult to swallow, but I got to a place that I have to do, what I have to do, and I’ll figure it out.

Our school was not able to hire enough monitors to cover for all teachers not returning for ADA reasons or lack of childcare. I believe that even if they had enough monitors, they never thought we would be in person, so created a virtual schedule where we had more classes than classrooms. For these reasons teachers returning will now be supervising students of teachers not returning, while they attend the virtual teachers class.

[B]So I will learn to teach concurrently while having the distraction of other students in the room who I am supervising.
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Is this what schools are doing?  It just doesn’t feel right. I’m trying to stay positive, but this has thrown me for a loop and I’m really upset by it.[/quote]

Yes. Put your big boy/girl pants on and suck it up. People have been doing concurrent for years. I had a class over video when I was in high school as a way of getting broader course selections to rural schools. This was before high-speed internet, too- they did it over microwave links. When I went to college, some classes had students joining online. I have friends that have been teaching concurrently at private schools all year.

Yes. It's harder. Suck it up. It's a pandemic, remember? A lot of people are having to work harder. Particularly parents, who have had to make up for teachers fighting the reopening of public schools for a year now. You can handle a few months.[/quote]

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