Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 22:16     Subject: Distance Learning
Pay freezes for 4 years.
Cuts to preK programs
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 22:11     Subject: Distance Learning
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.


Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?


DP but one of ours has been doing the same thing. No real explanation given. It's a bit strange.


I'm a teacher and that is really odd. Any parent who is able, should be supplementing a child's education all the time. I have done that with my own kids since they were babies. I find it hard to believe that any teacher would dislike a parent supplementing. I mean, how would she even know? I feel like there must be another side to this story.


They don't want the parent to help or teach. You can definitely tell which kids are being taught spelling.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 15:53     Subject: Distance Learning
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.


Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?


DP but one of ours has been doing the same thing. No real explanation given. It's a bit strange.


I'm a teacher and that is really odd. Any parent who is able, should be supplementing a child's education all the time. I have done that with my own kids since they were babies. I find it hard to believe that any teacher would dislike a parent supplementing. I mean, how would she even know? I feel like there must be another side to this story.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 00:20     Subject: Distance Learning
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.


Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?


DP but one of ours has been doing the same thing. No real explanation given. It's a bit strange.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2020 18:16     Subject: Distance Learning
Anonymous wrote:My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.


Did the teacher give a reason for pushing back?
Anonymous
Post 05/16/2020 23:55     Subject: Distance Learning
My mid-elementary kid gets a pretty tight set of assignments in all subjects, and the teachers coordinate among themselves well. They changed platforms a lot, which was stressful, but in hindsight, it gave everyone an opportunity to learn about all the platforms and test them out to pick the better ones for possible longer-term distance learning. They have about 5 Zoom meetings a week, quite a bit of accountability on all sides. I'm impressed.

My younger kid only likes the one-on-one Zooms with their teacher and hates the class-wide ones. The assignments and the recorded lessons by the teacher are far too easy so there is a lot of supplementation, with quite a bit of pushback from the teacher against the supplementation.
Anonymous
Post 05/15/2020 13:30     Subject: Re:Distance Learning
OP here.

It's not the academic stuff I'm worried about, but I do wish the classes had daily check-ins, just so the kids could be grounded/ connected to their class. At this point, its too late, but was just curious.