#distance teaching

[foxmagpie]

not me trying not to cry during a parent/teacher conference where the mom was like “you’re the first one to pronounce her name right” and “i think you know more about her than the rest of her teachers combined” and “this is the first conference where i feel like her teacher actually has a sense of who she is as a person” and “she really enjoys your class” like 😭😭😭

[adhdteacherthings]

Today was my last day of school with my students, and the last day is always bittersweet, but this year it just felt bitter. We did class awards and a slideshow of pictures from the year. Then we all said goodbye and wished each other a nice summer. But when I left the zoom call I was just... alone.

There were no hugs, no thank yous, no pictures, no tears. There was no class celebration, no joyful energy, no excitement for summer. There was no teacher get-together after we closed our classrooms, no celebration that we finished the year, no eating and laughing together.

Everything was just done. Cold. Emotionless. Distanced.

I got no emotional closure, and neither did my kids.

God I hope we go back to school in person next school year, because I don't know if I can handle this kind of emotional distance with a brand new group of kids.

[thesummerstorms]

"well if the schools are closed and I'm doing your job can I get my tax dollars back"

Listen fuckface.

Leaving aside the issue of elementary school students who aren't old enough to access the material online themselves, speaking only to middle and high school students.

You are not creating video lessons specific to state standards and a specific ways students are tested on those standards.

You are not producing content such as interactive activities in applications like nearpod, canvas, quizz iz, Ed puzzle, etc to engage the students actively in their learning.

You are not grading students submissions, especially their writing, nor explaining their mistakes and how to improve on those many corrections or resubmissions

You are not scheduling times to talk one-on-one through teams or Skype with students struggling with the online format

You are not doing all of the above 150 or more students.

So honestly? Fuck off.

[foxmagpie]

after a year (and a 4th period) of torturous zoom calls.......... this made me very emotional lol

[foxmagpie]

i just popped into a breakout room of two students that are supposed to be independently working on their assignents and this is what i overheard:

girl: do you know why koalas aren’t considered bears?

boy: because they don’t sleep

girl: no, becase they don’t have the koala-ficiations. 

[foxmagpie]

while zooming with a kid and helping him with his assignment:

kid: i’m sorry i just made that face. i just remembered the mandalorian is on tonight and i got very excited. 

[foxmagpie]

zooming with the health teacher and learning how horrible it is to teach sex ed on zoom to silent, black boxes with no reactions lmao god that sounds horrible, DO NOT ENVY HER @ ALL

[foxmagpie]

goddammit i just did 35 min of of teaching videos and then realized that i wasn’t even screenrecording, i was just recording MYSELF so students didn’t see the slideshows i spent an hour creating.... fml