Anonymous
Post 01/10/2021 09:57     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that there will still be separate DL classes. The concurrent will only be hybrid kids, half will be there TW, the others ThF on an alphabetical split. On the days they aren’t in class they dial in.


Concurrent by definition means a teacher is teaching both groups at once - distance and in person. If they are using the word concurrent, that’s what it means. It translates to kids at school still doing DL for instruction.

Hybrid would mean 2 days a week kids are at home doing independent work after morning meeting and 2 days a week they’re at school getting full in person learning.

DL means of course full DL with no in person component.

-teacher


Clarification for APS ES parents: hybrid is 2 days in school, 2 days synchronous DL at home, and asynchronous Mondays.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2021 04:16     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that there will still be separate DL classes. The concurrent will only be hybrid kids, half will be there TW, the others ThF on an alphabetical split. On the days they aren’t in class they dial in.


Concurrent by definition means a teacher is teaching both groups at once - distance and in person. If they are using the word concurrent, that’s what it means. It translates to kids at school still doing DL for instruction.

Hybrid would mean 2 days a week kids are at home doing independent work after morning meeting and 2 days a week they’re at school getting full in person learning.

DL means of course full DL with no in person component.

-teacher
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2021 22:23     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Wish that were the case for middle school!
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2021 21:14     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
My understanding is that there will still be separate DL classes. The concurrent will only be hybrid kids, half will be there TW, the others ThF on an alphabetical split. On the days they aren’t in class they dial in.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2021 17:59     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Yes. Teacher must teach through the computer to all students, live and DL. She cannot stand at white board. Cameras have not been installed in classrooms to do that and be visible and audible to the DL kids and hybrids at home. It is going to be DL at your desk for hybrid 6-12. And apparently now 3-5.
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2021 17:51     Subject: Re:Aps- returning to school?

Kids in hybrid classroom see live teacher. Kids online see a camera in the classroom pointing at live teacher. Teacher interacts with online kids at desk and live kids from the chalkboard.


How will they do that? Don't they need to be seen by all students at all times? I heard the teacher will need to stay in the same place at all times, in front of the camera. This image might be projected on the Smartboard for kids in the room, but if the teacher steps away from the camera to be at the board, they will be out of the view of the DL kids.

And, they will be wearing masks, so the DL kids won't be able to see their faces.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2021 23:56     Subject: Re:Aps- returning to school?
The model that will be a horrific failure. Awesome.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2021 23:55     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As of right now, the only real plan is that they are sending back pre-K-2nd teachers back into schools this month. 6-12 will go back a week later I believe. There is still no plan for 3-5 teachers to get back into schools. They also haven’t given any dates for kids starting.

It also sounds like 3-5 might be the last ones into a classroom which will be devastating for my third grader who has been under the impression he would be in the pre-K through third group (aka first group in) all along.


Last in the classroom and switched to a concurrent model if the other thread is all accurate.


What is a concurrent model? New term to me.


Kids in hybrid classroom see live teacher. Kids online see a camera in the classroom pointing at live teacher. Teacher interacts with online kids at desk and live kids from the chalkboard.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2021 23:33     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As of right now, the only real plan is that they are sending back pre-K-2nd teachers back into schools this month. 6-12 will go back a week later I believe. There is still no plan for 3-5 teachers to get back into schools. They also haven’t given any dates for kids starting.

It also sounds like 3-5 might be the last ones into a classroom which will be devastating for my third grader who has been under the impression he would be in the pre-K through third group (aka first group in) all along.


Last in the classroom and switched to a concurrent model if the other thread is all accurate.


What is a concurrent model? New term to me.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2021 21:48     Subject: Re:Aps- returning to school?
That doesn’t make much sense, given the high case rate. It could be months until the hybrid option is feasible. Why split now?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2021 20:59     Subject: Re:Aps- returning to school?
Campbell
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2021 20:51     Subject: Aps- returning to school?
Anonymous wrote:We got an email today saying our first grader would have a new teacher as of Jan 19th.

They are splitting the classes into virtual and hybrid at that time, but still with no return to school date.


Would you mind saying which school?