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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok what are Wednesdays then for teachers not providing content on those days?  Pre-pandemic they had to plan, answer emails, etc., and they did all of that in the course of five days.   why does the pandemic, particularly a YEAR into the pandemic, still require an extra day of planning each week?  I’m specifically referencing all-DL teachers who don’t go in and only see kids virtually.

I mean, my kid’s teachers provides a total of 3.5 hours of in-person instruction on M, T, Th, and F.  Assuming that teachers work 8 hours a day like normal full time employees, can’t the emailing and planning be done in the other 4.5 hours each day?  What’s so hard about DL that it requires 8 additional hours per week of planning?[/quote]

The answers to this are going to vary school by school depending on the schedules and how they broke up their DL classes.  At my school we use Wednesdays from 8:30-12:30 for a whole group meeting and then small groups (3-4 kids at a time) for ELA or Math depending on need.  1:30-3:30 is a meeting called looking at student work where we discuss needs that are coming up and how to address them, and then a team meeting where we calendar out the next week.

During M,Tu,Th,F we do whole group meetings and then A/B split the classes in half.  So if group A is with the teacher, B is independent.  That doesn't mean the teacher is free o do emails and planning.  They are with other students.  I think parents often forget that (given the number of texts I get when in small groups).

I hope that provides some clarity.  I do know all schools are different.[/quote]

This sounds like you ARE meeting with kids on Wednesdays, so I applaud you and thank you.  And yeah, I know that everything varies by school and grade, etc.  So thank you for the attempt at helping me understand, even if it might not translate to the specific circumstances of my kid's class.

The rest of it, is it just that teachers are doing more focused work with small groups or portions of the class?  This kind of seems like what is happening and would explain some or all of the difference.  So say you've got 2 hours of teacher instruction. The teacher sees half the kids in one hour and half in the other hour.  Each kid only sees 1 hour of instruction, but the teacher provides two.  Hmmmm...[/quote]

Read the post again. 8:30-12:30 is four hours, not two. The two hour block, 1:30-3:30, is for LASW and planning meetings. [/quote]

Right, I'm the PP and not asking about her specific Wednesdays.  I'm trying to fathom what's happening for my kid, who has no programming on Wednesdays.  The two-hour example was purely a scenario in which I was trying to explain to myself why it seems like teachers are doing less.  [/quote]

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