needed to keep their child on task during the school day. This is hardly a revelation for parents who have soldiered through long homework sessions for years, but it has served as an important reminder regarding the focusing power of movement, breaks, fidgets, and music.
— teachers’ styles, assignments, due dates, and problem areas. They are more aware of their students’ day-to-day responsibilities, and able toin real time that may continue to offer support when regular school resumes. “My son needs social interaction and the distinction between classes to shift gears, as well as redirection when he drifts,” wrote one mother of four students now learning at home. “He hums and taps and twirls the whole time he’s working. He’ll get it done, but he may stretch it out. He doesn’t like the Google class meetings because he said you can’t tell what anyone is looking at and it’s creepy. He wants live interaction.
“He misses the social aspect of school, but homeschooling offers far fewer distractions,” wrote the mother of a 6th grade student. “Plus, his behavior has much improved without the peer pressure of other challenging behavior found at school.”Educators are likewise reflecting on the first three to six weeks of distance learning and thinking about how they will change their classrooms and their instruction in the real world.