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MC09
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Homeschooling
On this website and on social media, and specifically in reference to covid, when people say "I am choosing to homeschool" do they mean their district's remote learning that all the kids have been doing since schools closed in March or an actual homeschool program that's separate from their school district's remote education?
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Re: Homeschooling
Homeschooling is not distance learning that the kids were doing. You have to have a curriculum you choose from to homeschool and you do all the teaching.
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MrsT809
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Homeschooling
My district is not offering full virtual and I'm very curious if other districts are on LI. So I know in my area homeschooling would mean actual homeschooling.
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NervousNell
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Re: Homeschooling
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
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Before working in healthcare, I was a teacher. I feel fairly confident in my ability to home school. Home school is you physically teaching, not a form of distance learning. I put together the bones of my entire curriculum for next year for my kids. I’m using various resources for my curriculum as I would in a classroom along with supplemental activities. I have a theme for each month, the content I will be teaching for the month with activities, games, projects, the books I plan to read etc. my kids are young and learn through play best at 3.5 so for example, number recognition, I have numbers 0-9 printed and laminated to look like a road. They love cars so we work on the identification and then tracing the laminated number with the car to get ready to practice writing and the kinesthenic movement of the number form. My curriculum is structured for 45 min 3x a week and will be expanded if needed. I also just got them kindle fire tablets that will be for educational use. So independent math/ literacy games that they can use the other 2 days a week I don’t be physically teaching them. I have selected apps and been researching and have lists for each content I plan to teach so the content on the tablet will be pre selected and will be for a 30 min use
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MC09
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Re: Homeschooling
Thanks! I wasn't sure if some people were confusing the 2. I hear people say they're going to homeschool and I wasn't sure if they understood that meant teaching their own curriculum.
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Homeschooling
They mean a homeschooling program thats not affiliated with the district
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MC09
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by TwinMommyToBoys
Before working in healthcare, I was a teacher. I feel fairly confident in my ability to home school. Home school is you physically teaching, not a form of distance learning. I put together the bones of my entire curriculum for next year for my kids. I’m using various resources for my curriculum as I would in a classroom along with supplemental activities. I have a theme for each month, the content I will be teaching for the month with activities, games, projects, the books I plan to read etc. my kids are young and learn through play best at 3.5 so for example, number recognition, I have numbers 0-9 printed and laminated to look like a road. They love cars so we work on the identification and then tracing the laminated number with the car to get ready to practice writing and the kinesthenic movement of the number form. My curriculum is structured for 45 min 3x a week and will be expanded if needed. I also just got them kindle fire tablets that will be for educational use. So independent math/ literacy games that they can use the other 2 days a week I don’t be physically teaching them. I have selected apps and been researching and have lists for each content I plan to teach so the content on the tablet will be pre selected and will be for a 30 min use
Wow! That sounds better than most kids had last semester with remote learning. Will you still be working in healthcare or taking a leave to be home with your little ones?
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Re: Homeschooling
I am curious about this as well!
I was under the impression that we would be given this option for 100% istance-learning, but now it does not look like we will, so all thouse who are not comfortable with their kids going back, whether full-time, part-time, staggered schedule, etc- will have to pull the kids and homeschool.
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NervousNell
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by MC09
Thanks! I wasn't sure if some people were confusing the 2. I hear people say they're going to homeschool and I wasn't sure if they understood that meant teaching their own curriculum.
They do confuse it. From the beginning of remote learning everyone was posting about how hard "homeschooling" is.
Another thing that everyone got wrong was the use of the word "quarantine" You are quarantining if you are sick or been exposed to someone sick or been in an area with a lot of sick people etc.
If you are just home because the state is locked down and there is a stay at home order, you aren't quarantined. Socially distancing, yes.
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MC09
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by MC09
Thanks! I wasn't sure if some people were confusing the 2. I hear people say they're going to homeschool and I wasn't sure if they understood that meant teaching their own curriculum.
They do confuse it. From the beginning of remote learning everyone was posting about how hard "homeschooling" is.
Another thing that everyone got wrong was the use of the word "quarantine" You are quarantining if you are sick or been exposed to someone sick or been in an area with a lot of sick people etc.
If you are just home because the state is locked down and there is a stay at home order, you aren't quarantined. Socially distancing, yes.
Yes! This one drives me nuts as well. Staying home to social distance because of the lockdown and being quarantined are two drastically different things.
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MC09
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Bamama
I am curious about this as well!
I was under the impression that we would be given this option for 100% istance-learning, but now it does not look like we will, so all thouse who are not comfortable with their kids going back, whether full-time, part-time, staggered schedule, etc- will have to pull the kids and homeschool.
It seems like they're pulling the 100% remote off the table even though they had said it would be an option. What about kids who have medical conditions or live in a home with a parent who does?
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PitterPatter11
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Homeschooling
Virtual/remote/online learning is provided by the school. I’m upstate and my son’s district is offering it.
Homeschooling requires you to vet different programs on your own which then need to be approved by your district to ensure they meet NYS guidelines.
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Re: Homeschooling
When I say I am going to homeschool, I actually mean pull my son out of school and take him to the casino to learn how to count cards. I figure that is a way better skill to learn than what the education system will look like in the fall. And they're open.
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NervousNell
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Sash
When I say I am going to homeschool, I actually mean pull my son out of school and take him to the casino to learn how to count cards. I figure that is a way better skill to learn than what the education system will look like in the fall. And they're open.
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MC09
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Sash
When I say I am going to homeschool, I actually mean pull my son out of school and take him to the casino to learn how to count cards. I figure that is a way better skill to learn than what the education system will look like in the fall. And they're open.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by NervousNell
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
I am sorry but that is totally unfair. I am a 1st grade teacher and I spent HOURS each day doing live instruction with my class. i had small groups, we did all the same work remotely that we would have done in the classroom. I worked harder during distance learning than I ever have to do in my classroom. I had to hunt down families, make sure everyone was healthy and safe, make sure all understood how to access our learning. I had set hours that the children were expected to be in our live sessions (9:00am - 12:00 each day). I then had 1:1 meets with students and parents, emailing back and forth, I worked until 10:00pm most nights and answered parents calls and emails on weekends. It is summer and I am STILL checking in with my students once a week in a live meet. Do not make sweeping generalizations like this based on your own personal experience.
I realize that many teachers did not do all of this. MANY districts did not allow teachers to live teach. Many did not require it... we were all unprepared for the shift to remote teaching.
My own kids experience in my home district (on LI) was similar to what I did as a teacher.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Lemon76
Posted by NervousNell
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
I am sorry but that is totally unfair. I am a 1st grade teacher and I spent HOURS each day doing live instruction with my class. i had small groups, we did all the same work remotely that we would have done in the classroom. I worked harder during distance learning than I ever have to do in my classroom. I had to hunt down families, make sure everyone was healthy and safe, make sure all understood how to access our learning. I had set hours that the children were expected to be in our live sessions (9:00am - 12:00 each day). I then had 1:1 meets with students and parents, emailing back and forth, I worked until 10:00pm most nights and answered parents calls and emails on weekends. It is summer and I am STILL checking in with my students once a week in a live meet. Do not make sweeping generalizations like this based on your own personal experience.
I realize that many teachers did not do all of this. MANY districts did not allow teachers to live teach. Many did not require it... we were all unprepared for the shift to remote teaching.
My own kids experience in my home district (on LI) was similar to what I did as a teacher.
I apologize. I wasn't directing that at you. Or any teacher who actually taught.
My district was just awful and my DD's teacher, though a very nice woman and she did try, did ZERO live instruction of any kind. Not sure if it was her or the district itself. But it was the worst.
So that was my experience with it.
Didn't mean to imply everyone's experience was like that.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Lemon76
Posted by NervousNell
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
I am sorry but that is totally unfair. I am a 1st grade teacher and I spent HOURS each day doing live instruction with my class. i had small groups, we did all the same work remotely that we would have done in the classroom. I worked harder during distance learning than I ever have to do in my classroom. I had to hunt down families, make sure everyone was healthy and safe, make sure all understood how to access our learning. I had set hours that the children were expected to be in our live sessions (9:00am - 12:00 each day). I then had 1:1 meets with students and parents, emailing back and forth, I worked until 10:00pm most nights and answered parents calls and emails on weekends. It is summer and I am STILL checking in with my students once a week in a live meet. Do not make sweeping generalizations like this based on your own personal experience.
I realize that many teachers did not do all of this. MANY districts did not allow teachers to live teach. Many did not require it... we were all unprepared for the shift to remote teaching.
My own kids experience in my home district (on LI) was similar to what I did as a teacher.
I apologize. I wasn't directing that at you. Or any teacher who actually taught.
My district was just awful and my DD's teacher, though a very nice woman and she did try, did ZERO live instruction of any kind. Not sure if it was her or the district itself. But it was the worst.
So that was my experience with it.
Didn't mean to imply everyone's experience was like that.
Many teachers did a phenomenal job, many did not. Sadly, I believe that if buildings are not open in September, the teachers who stood out, will continue to work hard, and the ones that didn't, will continue to do so.
Districts can't use the "we don't know what we are doing" excuse anymore. This isn't March, it's practically August. Like the PP, I have been working all summer looking for ways to improve my remote teaching if we don't go back. But there have been posters on this site, and people I have seen on FB, who say they will not do anything in July & August because they are ten month employees. THOSE are the teachers who need to be called out. It makes the rest of us look bad.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Naturalmama
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Lemon76
Posted by NervousNell
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
I am sorry but that is totally unfair. I am a 1st grade teacher and I spent HOURS each day doing live instruction with my class. i had small groups, we did all the same work remotely that we would have done in the classroom. I worked harder during distance learning than I ever have to do in my classroom. I had to hunt down families, make sure everyone was healthy and safe, make sure all understood how to access our learning. I had set hours that the children were expected to be in our live sessions (9:00am - 12:00 each day). I then had 1:1 meets with students and parents, emailing back and forth, I worked until 10:00pm most nights and answered parents calls and emails on weekends. It is summer and I am STILL checking in with my students once a week in a live meet. Do not make sweeping generalizations like this based on your own personal experience.
I realize that many teachers did not do all of this. MANY districts did not allow teachers to live teach. Many did not require it... we were all unprepared for the shift to remote teaching.
My own kids experience in my home district (on LI) was similar to what I did as a teacher.
I apologize. I wasn't directing that at you. Or any teacher who actually taught.
My district was just awful and my DD's teacher, though a very nice woman and she did try, did ZERO live instruction of any kind. Not sure if it was her or the district itself. But it was the worst.
So that was my experience with it.
Didn't mean to imply everyone's experience was like that.
Many teachers did a phenomenal job, many did not. Sadly, I believe that if buildings are not open in September, the teachers who stood out, will continue to work hard, and the ones that didn't, will continue to do so.
Districts can't use the "we don't know what we are doing" excuse anymore. This isn't March, it's practically August. Like the PP, I have been working all summer looking for ways to improve my remote teaching if we don't go back. But there have been posters on this site, and people I have seen on FB, who say they will not do anything in July & August because they are ten month employees. THOSE are the teachers who need to be called out. It makes the rest of us look bad.
Yup. My one daughter’s teacher still calls her weekly to read with her. It takes just 10 minutes but my daughter absolutely loves it. She has never once uttered that she was a 10 month employee or off for the Summer. She’s amazing.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Katareen
Posted by Naturalmama
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Lemon76
Posted by NervousNell
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
I am sorry but that is totally unfair. I am a 1st grade teacher and I spent HOURS each day doing live instruction with my class. i had small groups, we did all the same work remotely that we would have done in the classroom. I worked harder during distance learning than I ever have to do in my classroom. I had to hunt down families, make sure everyone was healthy and safe, make sure all understood how to access our learning. I had set hours that the children were expected to be in our live sessions (9:00am - 12:00 each day). I then had 1:1 meets with students and parents, emailing back and forth, I worked until 10:00pm most nights and answered parents calls and emails on weekends. It is summer and I am STILL checking in with my students once a week in a live meet. Do not make sweeping generalizations like this based on your own personal experience.
I realize that many teachers did not do all of this. MANY districts did not allow teachers to live teach. Many did not require it... we were all unprepared for the shift to remote teaching.
My own kids experience in my home district (on LI) was similar to what I did as a teacher.
I apologize. I wasn't directing that at you. Or any teacher who actually taught.
My district was just awful and my DD's teacher, though a very nice woman and she did try, did ZERO live instruction of any kind. Not sure if it was her or the district itself. But it was the worst.
So that was my experience with it.
Didn't mean to imply everyone's experience was like that.
Many teachers did a phenomenal job, many did not. Sadly, I believe that if buildings are not open in September, the teachers who stood out, will continue to work hard, and the ones that didn't, will continue to do so.
Districts can't use the "we don't know what we are doing" excuse anymore. This isn't March, it's practically August. Like the PP, I have been working all summer looking for ways to improve my remote teaching if we don't go back. But there have been posters on this site, and people I have seen on FB, who say they will not do anything in July & August because they are ten month employees. THOSE are the teachers who need to be called out. It makes the rest of us look bad.
Yup. My one daughter’s teacher still calls her weekly to read with her. It takes just 10 minutes but my daughter absolutely loves it. She has never once uttered that she was a 10 month employee or off for the Summer. She’s amazing.
Wow. That is pretty amazing.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by MC09
Posted by Bamama
I am curious about this as well!
I was under the impression that we would be given this option for 100% istance-learning, but now it does not look like we will, so all thouse who are not comfortable with their kids going back, whether full-time, part-time, staggered schedule, etc- will have to pull the kids and homeschool.
It seems like they're pulling the 100% remote off the table even though they had said it would be an option. What about kids who have medical conditions or live in a home with a parent who does?
Districts are mandated by the SED guidelines to provide and education to those who need to stay home for medical reasons or if a family member has medical reasons. Districts not providing that will be out of compliance. Personally I think those students will be getting very minimal teaching as they are not hiring and classroom teachers are busy teaching their own classes. Our district was talking about trying to match up teachers who can not come back to work for medical issues with the children that have to be home and do something that way.
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Naturalmama
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by KarenK122
Posted by MC09
Posted by Bamama
I am curious about this as well!
I was under the impression that we would be given this option for 100% istance-learning, but now it does not look like we will, so all thouse who are not comfortable with their kids going back, whether full-time, part-time, staggered schedule, etc- will have to pull the kids and homeschool.
It seems like they're pulling the 100% remote off the table even though they had said it would be an option. What about kids who have medical conditions or live in a home with a parent who does?
Districts are mandated by the SED guidelines to provide and education to those who need to stay home for medical reasons or if a family member has medical reasons. Districts not providing that will be out of compliance. Personally I think those students will be getting very minimal teaching as they are not hiring and classroom teachers are busy teaching their own classes. Our district was talking about trying to match up teachers who can not come back to work for medical issues with the children that have to be home and do something that way.
I am interested to see how the island will accommodate the children who are staying home. My cousin is a 4th grade teacher in the DOE, she has a heart condition, so she applied to teach remotely. She was told she would not necessarily be matched with students in her school. She will have 4th graders from across all five boroughs in her "class". It makes sense. But, I wonder if the parents who are choosing the all remote option realize their children may not be with a teacher, or any children, from their actual school.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Lemon76
Posted by NervousNell
Homeschooling is where you actually teach the child yourself. You act as the teacher. They actually learn something.
Distance learning is where they don't learn anything at all and get an hour of busy work a day posted on a google classroom site.
I am sorry but that is totally unfair. I am a 1st grade teacher and I spent HOURS each day doing live instruction with my class. i had small groups, we did all the same work remotely that we would have done in the classroom. I worked harder during distance learning than I ever have to do in my classroom. I had to hunt down families, make sure everyone was healthy and safe, make sure all understood how to access our learning. I had set hours that the children were expected to be in our live sessions (9:00am - 12:00 each day). I then had 1:1 meets with students and parents, emailing back and forth, I worked until 10:00pm most nights and answered parents calls and emails on weekends. It is summer and I am STILL checking in with my students once a week in a live meet. Do not make sweeping generalizations like this based on your own personal experience.
I realize that many teachers did not do all of this. MANY districts did not allow teachers to live teach. Many did not require it... we were all unprepared for the shift to remote teaching.
My own kids experience in my home district (on LI) was similar to what I did as a teacher.
I apologize. I wasn't directing that at you. Or any teacher who actually taught.
My district was just awful and my DD's teacher, though a very nice woman and she did try, did ZERO live instruction of any kind. Not sure if it was her or the district itself. But it was the worst.
So that was my experience with it.
Didn't mean to imply everyone's experience was like that.
We didn't have live instruction either but dd's 2nd grade teacher was excellent and she still learned a lot. She did send videos either of herself, her voice narrating a ppt, or other random videos online. She was available by email whenever we needed. Most helpful imo was that she sent specific feedback within a day for every single assignment submitted.
My kindegartener's teacher did weekly zooms but they were not instructional at all. Honestly, nothing she did was really instructional. She just sent assignments for them to complete so parents were left to figure out the instruction. She still worked her butt off but she never figured that part out unfortunately. Anyway, my point is I personally don't think live instruction is the end all be all.
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Re: Homeschooling
Posted by Naturalmama
Posted by KarenK122
Posted by MC09
Posted by Bamama
I am curious about this as well!
I was under the impression that we would be given this option for 100% istance-learning, but now it does not look like we will, so all thouse who are not comfortable with their kids going back, whether full-time, part-time, staggered schedule, etc- will have to pull the kids and homeschool.
It seems like they're pulling the 100% remote off the table even though they had said it would be an option. What about kids who have medical conditions or live in a home with a parent who does?
Districts are mandated by the SED guidelines to provide and education to those who need to stay home for medical reasons or if a family member has medical reasons. Districts not providing that will be out of compliance. Personally I think those students will be getting very minimal teaching as they are not hiring and classroom teachers are busy teaching their own classes. Our district was talking about trying to match up teachers who can not come back to work for medical issues with the children that have to be home and do something that way.
I am interested to see how the island will accommodate the children who are staying home. My cousin is a 4th grade teacher in the DOE, she has a heart condition, so she applied to teach remotely. She was told she would not necessarily be matched with students in her school. She will have 4th graders from across all five boroughs in her "class". It makes sense. But, I wonder if the parents who are choosing the all remote option realize their children may not be with a teacher, or any children, from their actual school.
It does make sense and I've said I wish our counties were able to provide full time distance learning as a cooperative effort to help districts out. I think many people would take that over no choice at all.
Our district made clear that if we go from hybrid to full in person learning there is a possibility kids will end up with a different teacher. I'm sure they'll try not to do that but they made clear they cannot guarantee it.
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