If schools get closed how to teach subjects from home

[KoalasandRabbit]

Looks like our secondary maybe shutting soon and looking into ways of teaching from home / helping kids learn from home during that period. Hopefully things will be provided by school but would like to have back-ups. Am also wondering how our rural internet will cope with 4 of us on at once as DH's work is also closing and he will be wfh too.

Maths we have books, science have a Kerboodle password so those are OK. Looking for resources for English x 2, Geography, History, French. Thanks very much. Year 8 and year 9 top sets and year 9 has started GCSE in English and History.

These dc don’t have assessment data? They do. Never mind. The ones who need an education simply won’t get much will they?

Even if I could see their assessment data, how would I know what it meant? I don’t teach at their school.

This is what happens when you underfund infrastructure and schools and allow a massive gap to develop between the haves and have nots in society

This may well be the UK's Hurricane Katrina moment.

@noblegiraffe, my local elementary and high school districts have online classes up and running for all students including those with IEPs. They had one day to set it all up but there were contingency plans in place that needed tweaking.

The curriculum is the one they would have been studying in school.

High school and middle school students all have school issued Chromebooks for schoolwork anyway, and the schools are using Google classroom. Students in middle and high school do the usual school day, with teachers conducting class from home and reachable by email for questions.

If the students were to be in school they could use the Chromebooks there too, with someone supervising.

Younger students have paper packs to work through as well as online content on Zoom with teachers checking in three or four times per day.

No parental involvement necessary.

The curriculum is the one they would have been studying in school.

Which is different at each school.

I’m imagining that the secondary kids could be set up with a laptop and access to school wifi so that they can do whatever their own school has set them.

Yes, in each school district the curriculum might be slightly different (bearing in mind that national exams like SAT and ACT - canceled for the foreseeable - test the same skills that students arrive at from different vantage points and after different meanderings through the material) and in fact across a single English department in my local high school each teacher has a different approach, a different focus when it comes to the modern American novel, for instance. But the teachers and the tech people were able to get all of this up and running in a day. The teachers are providing pretty much the school experience, even down to the students' wearing of pajamas to 'class' as before.

I am worried, my dc was quite happy that school was closed suddenly, and saying it's a holiday. I made sure it's not, that they still need to be doing daily work. Unfortunately, our school didn't plan it at all, they have least communication with parents. Not much work assigned to do at home.

It would be great if any secondary teacher can give us parents any clue what we should be doing.

We have put the school timetable up where did cab see it an we are ticking off the subjects. We are doing alternatives. We did gardening instead of badminton for pe for instance.

My y10 DD is ill at the moment but when recovered we will I think be following timetable too and then using spaces to play catch-up over what she has missed for the last couple of weeks.
Easter holidays will be spent as school with an aim to be caught up when term starts again. Luckily we have a shed load of revision guides already.

Admittedly DD(yr8)'s school is academic but we have just had an email about how it is going to work.

The school will continue to follow the timetable with work being set, marked and discussed using (microsoft?) Teams and their teacher and other pupils available for the lesson via group chat.

Luckily we are awash with laptops and computers, but I think it might be tricky for some families.

Thank goodness it is nearly the end of term!