The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’ Lucia Curatolo-Boylan supervises the online schooling of her four children, ages 4 to 10, in Staten Island, N.
Pandemic teaching and learning is not the same as distance learning. I know some districts are using this time to prepare teachers for actual distance or blending learning for the fall.
Shocker! Teachers thrown into a virtual environment with little or no training, technology falling short, stressed parents, and children being children... 🤷♀️
That’s a bit sweeping, and it’s still going to be needed.
Studying at home is like working at home, always too free, hahaha. Don’t be seen by the teacher (the boss).
While public schools were not prepared for remote learning, there are online schools and educational curriculum that have been effective for over a decade. Give the public schools time and they may work out something effective too.
What works in America these days?
brianstelter By whose standards are you judging? And did it ever occur to you that “involuntary crash course” in and of itself is a recipe for absolute failure, so ANY success is miraculous?
Take down the paywall and allow teachers access to this article.
20-year educator here - sadly, NO, it did not! Provided lots of data about where to go with it, though.
😒😒It was an emergency and impromptu responding to a pandemic...i don't really think you can measure against traditional learning environment here. It was not intentionally planned for, processes and systems were not in place for what education sector had to implement.
Depends on the parents, speak for yourself.
jasongay Sadly, schools are going to continue to experiment on our kids in the fall. More academic backsliding and failures to come. Oh yeah- comparisons to homeschooling - not the same. Those parents not trying to work at the same time.
コロナ休業日の家庭学習は学校の課題やテストをスマホ内の回答用紙に子供が自分で入力して先生へ送信していました。日本人は勤勉 我が家ではSmart phoneはSIM card無しを持たせていました。保護者は持ってるしWi-Fiある。PCは家族１人に２台あるから学校にはLaptop持って行けば良いと思っていました。
I could of told you that the second week of March.
brianstelter Amen!
Duh 🙄
brianstelter Hard to “teach” when you can’t control what’s happening in their homes.
But everyone liked it so eff off. Give em a year. Will have better scores than anyone is terrible public schools.
We need to reassess what skills are essential, and for whom.
To be fair, public school is even far less effective for education
Bullshit
it's because you were missing the spoon. I kid, I KID,
Of course not.Teachers were expected to place materials on platforms many were not trained for,the materials had to be adapted quickly with very few prepared students connectivity was questionable at best. Teachers and students did amazing against the odds
How the hell would you know?
77-year-old retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn was shot dead by marauders when he tried to force them to stop robbing a local pawnshop. Will he also be buried in a golden coffin or just a felon?
It did with our school but it’s international and they were prepared.
So maybe we need also to re-evaluate all those rosy homeschooling reports that right wing media puts out when they want to cut funding to public schools?
Most kids lost about 25% of the school year learning opportunities. You can’t replace the teacher/student engagement that takes place in the classroom.
Surprise
Our governor GovRaimondo tells us that YouTube +Zoom + House Arrest = eduction, but we know it's a lie. Children forced out of schools, but rioters and demonstrators welcomed with open arms. Our children deserve better.
Maybe take the initiative to create the necessary infrastructure for the next interruption?
No, it didn’t work. Even with a self starring 10 years old above average student.
Working great for my grandkids! Two may remain homeschooled.
EWoodhouse7 I think kids should unionize. Become a voting tour de force. Parents can unionize too. Then we can put them in the Thunderdome with the teacher’s union and just let them sort it all out. Keep the politicians out of it though, they fucked it all up once already.
one of the unmentioned and key reason is the technology. we dream we are living in a very high technology world, the reality slaps us.
I speculate that low reading skills made remote learning impossible but that skilled readers sped through material, learned a lot, and loved it.
Teachers both literally and figuratively 'phoned it in'. They totally dropped out.
If you try to make homeschooling like institutionalized school you'll fail every time.
For the kids who are disciplined and organized, it worked fine. For every other kid (including most boys) it was a failure. For those who need the most support, it was an utter and complete disaster.
School is a social experience and there is no way to do that effectively virtually.
We weren’t prepared for it!
Remote learning may be seen as failure but it works for students before We had a pandemic to worry about, parents were scare for their children, teachers ,some had no experience in it. On the other hand, some parents were not equipped to make their children sit down and WORK.
Access to knowledge and information has never been easier... but learning is still too hard.
Calling it an experiment seems disingenuous. Experiments are planned and prepared for. They don't just start on a random Friday in March.
That’s exactly what it was. How did they expect parents who have full time jobs simultaneously be full tome teachers?
First-time experiments performed by neophytes are rarely successful.
My grandchildren are home schooled. They didn’t miss a beat. They are all well-educated, well-mannered and they love Jesus.
Remote learning works fine! F A K E N E W S
remote learning is ok for some things. However, the struggle here seems to only be a concern for those who find being responsible for their child's education a daunting task that interrupts their 'me' existence.
If you choose to have for kids... you refuse to do anything else in life for a lot of years !!
Yes, let's demonize homeschooling because we can't brainwash the next generation if they are being educated at home.
My kids go to a Christian school and they did an amazing job. I also know many who homeschool their children such that they get in to top universities. Remove the Marxist doctrination and it’s pretty simple. The tech and other tools have been around and are only getting better.
The mom with four kids is not gonna make the Zoom schedule
Yeah a unprepared jump into an entirely new system during an economic crisis is a great way to evaluate it's merits.
No structure, Lack of Knowledge/Experience & What curriculum? Maybe Many parents lousy teachers?
The Corrupt Education Complex thanks you for your support.
It depends on the age of the kids and the program. This “all” is too broad of a take.
People were rushed into it. What did you expect? I don't know if distance or remote learning necessarily works, but a hybrid certainly could. Obviously rushing into it isn't a fair trial run.