Ontario teachers say they're preparing for online and in-class learning with little guidance

TORONTO -- Rachel Rosen doesn't even know what classes she'll be teaching in three weeks, let alone how she'll juggle preparing in-person and online lessons.

The province is giving parents the option to keep kids out of the classroom and have them learn from home, with materials provided by their schools. She said classtime will be divided up into synchronous learning, which is a more traditional lesson, and asynchronous learning, which would see students working independently.

The head of the union that represents many of the province's high school teachers said it's not just Rosen facing these kinds of issues. Many teachers in boards adopting the adapted model for secondary schools still don't know how they'll manage teaching students in class and creating online learning materials.

Complicating matters, he noted, is that different school boards are developing different plans for how in-class and online learning will be handled.

Welcome to your new normal. Adapt and overcome. Won't happen overnight but stop with the dramatics. Work with you teaching association and the association can work with the boards to get the safety protocols in place. Then sort out the teaching details. Big puzzle to put together

If only the teachers union fought bullying and violence in schools as hard as they fight Ford. Teachers union can certainly for better pay and less work, but for kids not so much. Reform Canadian education. Face the powerful bully union!

The Liberal Teachers Union trying to go after Ford. Wtf what JustinTrudeau do? He wouldnt eve close the Wuhan border to infection.

Wait! School Boards have had since schools closed, way back 4 months ago, and they sat on their fat overpaid unions asses and did nothing. Lecce had to do it, and all they can do is whine. Most school boards are a bunch of useless cronies, smug self-satisfied and entitled.

Good luck getting anything in place for the start of the school year. This should have been handled back in June and using July and August to get the schools and staff ready for September. As usual too little too late.

The people teaching our youth can't figure out Skype 😂😂😂 Beautiful.

Aren't they the teachers? If I was teaching my field I'd certainly be able to come up with some stuff...without guidance.

Well better than Manitoba government pushing going back to classrooms. Cons just aren't too bright.

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How do you prepare when you know nothing about what you will be doing.

With the lack of uptake and interest in elearning from unions and teachers to this point elearning should be run centrally and aligned with the boards who can share information with schools. Private schools figured it out quickly. Time for the public system to catch up.

fordnation and Sflecce have spent all this time protecting a “system” not students Redirecting resources so that parents could afford to keep kids home for distance learning would have resolved the concerns they are now dealing with while ensuring a education for students

That’s a student, right?

Constant whining and complaining. Just STFU

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. An entire generation of kids will be severely delayed in their education outcomes because of poor risk mitigation strategies and the sensationalized fear of Covid..

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