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Why not have in person class one day every two weeks (10%) and virtual learning the other 90%? This gives people a chance to meet each other once in a while but keeps transmission chains broken because you're always apart for a full incubation period...
The incubation period is 14 days so every three weeks would be in the safe zone.
That might work just as a "nice to see you" but one thing I learned was that you need to get into a rhythm when teaching. That's why these block schedules really don't work well, especially when you have things like snow days. I'd think that going in would break that rhythm.
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Why not have in person class one day every two weeks (10%) and virtual learning the other 90%? This gives people a chance to meet each other once in a while but keeps transmission chains broken because you're always apart for a full incubation period...
Only if they never go anywhere else and kids don't meet outside school.
The incubation period is 14 days so every three weeks would be in the safe zone.
That might work just as a "nice to see you" but one thing I learned was that you need to get into a rhythm when teaching. That's why these block schedules really don't work well, especially when you have things like snow days. I'd think that going in would break that rhythm.
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I like every 3 weeks better too because of the incubation period.
Now regarding the rhythm of things, w/ COVID around, it's going to be tough & almost impossible, so I'd just make the in-person time be a time for asking questions or other unique circumstances that you can't really do remotely. So the teachers should tell the students to keep a running record of the TOP 3-5 questions ONLY to ask otherwise, we'd be there all week.
Things can't possibly be ideal until there's a vaccine or cure for COVID, otherwise, we all just have to do the best we can!
The incubation period is 14 days so every three weeks would be in the safe zone.
That might work just as a "nice to see you" but one thing I learned was that you need to get into a rhythm when teaching. That's why these block schedules really don't work well, especially when you have things like snow days. I'd think that going in would break that rhythm.
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Block scheduling works well for teachers that make interactive lessons or vary formats of learning. It can be very difficult to have to make every day like this. They can work, but traditional scheduling has a lot more flexibility. It used to be an education fad of how it was the "new thing" that "everyone had to do." Either can work but you have to have a good structure in place for block. Block is also not ideal for covid at all.
Block scheduling works well for teachers that make interactive lessons or vary formats of learning. It can be very difficult to have to make every day like this. They can work, but traditional scheduling has a lot more flexibility. It used to be an education fad of how it was the "new thing" that "everyone had to do." Either can work but you have to have a good structure in place for block. Block is also not ideal for covid at all.
I was in a magnet program and we had block scheduling for all but my first year in the program. It was fine. I also did teaching in block (they just had 4 periods a semester) and it allowed for more innovative lesson planning than the more traditional schedules. Kids could also take more electives. It was problematic for some subjects like math though, because kids who took Algebra 1 in first semester freshman year and didn’t come back to math until 2nd semester sophomore year might end up forgetting a lot of what they had learned. My program had rotating block, which worked much better. We just had 2 periods together to get that longer class.
Why not have in person class one day every two weeks (10%) and virtual learning the other 90%? This gives people a chance to meet each other once in a while but keeps transmission chains broken because you're always apart for a full incubation period...
How about if we just wait until it is safe enough. I compare covid with the bogeyman--you just don't know where it is hiding.
I was in a magnet program and we had block scheduling for all but my first year in the program. It was fine. I also did teaching in block (they just had 4 periods a semester) and it allowed for more innovative lesson planning than the more traditional schedules. Kids could also take more electives. It was problematic for some subjects like math though, because kids who took Algebra 1 in first semester freshman year and didn’t come back to math until 2nd semester sophomore year might end up forgetting a lot of what they had learned. My program had rotating block, which worked much better. We just had 2 periods together to get that longer class.
I'm not saying block can't be done, but it needs to be structured well. There are many cases where it's not.
In some districts, they just surprised teachers with the method like a week before and made them fend for themselves. Some students struggled because they couldn't complete certain course requirements (in a normal fashion) with the block scheduling changes. etc.
It's much easier to monitor smaller amounts of time and flexible. Block is simply a redistribution of time intervals by making bigger and fewer time intervals. When you have smaller intervals, you can more room to potentially move this class to this period or offer this class in multiple periods rather than one or fewer periods.
If kids could take more electives under block, it's because of how these electives were structured under a block scheduling. What is done in block scheduling can be done with 30-40 min time intervals as opposed to 60 or 90 min time intervals.
Block's advantage does allow lessons to be potentially deeper because one can focus one time on a particular class/subject. Also is hard to develop if you don't have things already in place.
I think most would agree that you wouldn't want shorter than a 30-40 minute time block though.
My kids are in week 2, and yes, they miss going to school. But what’s important now is safety and consistency.
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