This has undoubtedly been the strangest year of my teaching career. Doing this online learning/teaching for behavior kids has not been what it needs to be, but nothing I can do about it.
The district said do your Math and ELAR and if you have time, do your SC/SS and then the PE, ART, Music and our Social Skills lessons drag the rear. It is what it is. Grades in our district or on the PIE scale: Passing if you try anything, Incomplete if you turn nothing in and Exempt if you do not have access to the internet which some of my kids and Gen Ed do not!
Originally they wanted us and the kids working on the computer form 8 to 4 or at least 7 hours of training, work, Google Classroom, but that bombed quickly when most learned Home Schooling kids spent way less than 4 hours doing academics, more like 3 hours or less.
A lot changed, our meetings changed, grading changed, assignments changed and here we are at least in this district 4 1/2 days form the end of school. It to me would have been way easier and way more beneficial to the students to have been in school instead of this online so called learning. Not sure any one student learned anything!
I only hope these kids survive moving to another grade level while missing a lot in instruction they need. The GREATEST thing that happened was the elimination of the STAAR tests, I despise them and they do no good except for making money for the former principals and Admin that lease/sell it to the Texas schools! Total waste of close to 100 million each year. Enough of my rant.
For those of you that are staying in this profession, good luck next year, I hope things go smoothly for you and your students. I feel the students will be impacted more form this than the teachers and parents, although the parents may realize how bad their kids really are!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay the course and good luck. Friday at noon I am officially RETIRED!
The district said do your Math and ELAR and if you have time, do your SC/SS and then the PE, ART, Music and our Social Skills lessons drag the rear. It is what it is. Grades in our district or on the PIE scale: Passing if you try anything, Incomplete if you turn nothing in and Exempt if you do not have access to the internet which some of my kids and Gen Ed do not!
Originally they wanted us and the kids working on the computer form 8 to 4 or at least 7 hours of training, work, Google Classroom, but that bombed quickly when most learned Home Schooling kids spent way less than 4 hours doing academics, more like 3 hours or less.
A lot changed, our meetings changed, grading changed, assignments changed and here we are at least in this district 4 1/2 days form the end of school. It to me would have been way easier and way more beneficial to the students to have been in school instead of this online so called learning. Not sure any one student learned anything!
I only hope these kids survive moving to another grade level while missing a lot in instruction they need. The GREATEST thing that happened was the elimination of the STAAR tests, I despise them and they do no good except for making money for the former principals and Admin that lease/sell it to the Texas schools! Total waste of close to 100 million each year. Enough of my rant.
For those of you that are staying in this profession, good luck next year, I hope things go smoothly for you and your students. I feel the students will be impacted more form this than the teachers and parents, although the parents may realize how bad their kids really are!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay the course and good luck. Friday at noon I am officially RETIRED!
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