Temporary broom closet in lieu of staff creating a staffroom

[TheHoneyBadger]

Just in case she got lucky and is in the one school that still goes to the pub.

@MrsHamlet no neither sadly. Old, fat and brunette so the odds are stacked against me on the job front😆

Yep - no chance at our place.
My hod once turned up to teach a lesson to discover that a classroom had been turned into a toilet block over the summer but no one had told the timetabler.
I'm impressed that I'm not making the obvious comment about his shit teaching

Lol eitak we've had a v different response!

We've had some training tonight on it online by our head.

We don't have to do it. We can also do it at home the day before we come in as it's quite a faff. We start next week.

I found today v depressing. I think the last year is starting to sink in more in a brief way.

I had a moment where I double took the situation of a staff meeting on doing tests for a dangerous infectious virus.

Despite the last year it suddenly seemed utterly bonkers.

@TrashedWarrior

Lol eitak we've had a v different response!

We've had some training tonight on it online by our head.

We don't have to do it. We can also do it at home the day before we come in as it's quite a faff. We start next week.

Oh we can do ours at home. Think shes sceptical about their use and dont think the webinars filled her with confidence. We still dont have the tests yet either.

Is it really bad that this what I have eaten today :

toast
party rings
corn bread
ice cream
4 packs lovehearts

@Piggywaspushed

Is it really bad that this what I have eaten today :

toast
party rings
corn bread
ice cream
4 packs lovehearts

Yes. You needed haribo for balance.

Or a three pack of Walnut Whips. The M&S ones

Now I really want party rings...

I might have bought twix yesterday and hidden them in my desk.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4142089-The-Forty-Third-Republic-Lockdown-learning-continues-when-is-half-term?watched=1&msgid=103851714#103851714

Come out of the cupboard. I am starting to feel like I am in a never-ending episode of Staged but instead I am forever on Teams.

Can I ask a teacherish question please?
Everyone seems to be spending huge amounts of time and effort on their online lessons.
I'm feeling bad that I'm not working late into the night!
Does what I'm doing sound ok, or below par?
So I find my standard PowerPoint for the lesson I'm going to teach. Any practicals I delete those slides and find a YouTube or BBC Bitesize video clip of the same practical and embed it in the PowerPoint.
Any bits where I would normally have models or props I'm either using PHet animations, or another clip of someone else waving the model or prop around.
I then upload to SMH with any worksheets or online assessment links, with the lesson objectives.
When I teach I talk through the PowerPoint sharing my screen, annotating as necessary, taking questions from the chat (as I keep them muted, and chat is fixed so it can only go to me). And adding to the clips when necessary. I may get them to do a task live online on desmos, or spiral or whiteboard.
Then I summarise what we have learned, emphasising the key points. End meeting.

Does that sound ok?

@EnemyOfEducationNo1

Can I ask a teacherish question please? Everyone seems to be spending huge amounts of time and effort on their online lessons. I'm feeling bad that I'm not working late into the night! Does what I'm doing sound ok, or below par? So I find my standard PowerPoint for the lesson I'm going to teach. Any practicals I delete those slides and find a YouTube or BBC Bitesize video clip of the same practical and embed it in the PowerPoint. Any bits where I would normally have models or props I'm either using PHet animations, or another clip of someone else waving the model or prop around. I then upload to SMH with any worksheets or online assessment links, with the lesson objectives. When I teach I talk through the PowerPoint sharing my screen, annotating as necessary, taking questions from the chat (as I keep them muted, and chat is fixed so it can only go to me). And adding to the clips when necessary. I may get them to do a task live online on desmos, or spiral or whiteboard. Then I summarise what we have learned, emphasising the key points. End meeting.

Does that sound ok?

That sounds fine! To be honest, it’s the sheer amount of marking not planning (I did most of that in the holidays just gone in a similar vein to you) that’s keeping me working late-this need for the weekly marked piece of work with feedback online, for the amount of different classes I have as an option type subject, and chasing students, still doing welfare calls etc. is bringing me to my knees!

Enemy

That sounds fine. I'm only doing way too much planning because our powerpoints have to be moved into a standard format for online learning and independent tasks broken up into 30 minute sections for SMHW (but have to be consolidation from live) and then tasks that are going to be assessed put on SMHW separately. So basically everything I want them to do I have to do three different ways.

Plus we going at like 60% speed, which is stressing me (year 10 are already a whole term behind)

I have just managed to get ahead on planning now.

I haven't started marking yet! We gave them the first week free and then I've done my tasks midweek to midweek, so my first batch has only just come in.

Mine takes me so long(I've just finished one and heading for bed) as they aren't all arranged on PowerPoints normally (some lessons are, many aren't) and there is normally a lot of discussion and group work. I have to change an awful lot that I would normally do in the class itself.
So we are all different I suppose. Then I'm also spending longer as I am recording the lesson not teaching it live.

It must vary from subject to subject, teacher to teacher and school to school.

For example, lots of teachers (me) don't make long ppts to deliver a lesson. If you normally have a short slide on the board, some handouts and lots of discussion, then you've got to make one. All new format too, to show remote learning expectations on every slide.

Or you need to narrate over your ppt or make a video from scratch and upload it (takes forever if WiFi bad - I took 1.5 hrs to upload one lesson the other day).

Or you've changed the order of your syllabus as a topic just doesn't suit remote teaching at all (drama/art/tech) so are planning from scratch.

Or your school insists on loads of admin tasks around each lesson (download register, upload register, contact non-attenders, download recording of your live lesson, change permissions, email to students).

Your workload for each lesson sounds bad enough!

I only use ppt for A level Lang ever. I'm still only doing that.
What's eating my time is marking - not because I'm marking more (I'm not) but because it comes in drinks and drabs rather than me leaving the room with a pile of books, and because I spend a lot of time turning images round and resizing the bloody things.
When I was doing recorded ppts in the first lockdown I kept them really simple and did one take. If I fluffed, I said "oops" and carried on.
Also updating sims every lesson which requires logging in to remote access which is slow then faffing about. The register is fine but I'm logging more other stuff.

Thanks everyone. You know when you get that sudden panic that you're doing it wrong, or have missed a huge chunk of what you're supposed to be doing?
I'm not doing much marking as I'm assessing "live" via spiral or whiteboard, or using self marking things like Seneca. I'm also giving myself a break by using oak Academy lessons once week for each KS3 class.

Teacher guilt is definitely a thing.
Now, unless you really like this dusty cupboard, staff has opened us a new staffroom:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4142089-The-Forty-Third-Republic-Lockdown-learning-continues-when-is-half-term?watched=1&msgid=103851714#103851714

Hilarious that there was a clique in the Broom Cupboard

I think I better make a new one just in case.

Voici: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/4147700-The-broom-cupboard-2-just-for-when-we-get-briefly-stranded-without-a-staffroom?watched=1

Just in case.

Too many cupboards now.

If we were in a episode of Oakley Bridge I'd probably have discovered 1 the Head snogging the academy sponsor OR 2 a Y11 boy dong a DNA swap to prove he's the baby's father, helped secretly by his cuckholded PE teacher (see 1), OR 3) the pretty Biology teacher trying to explain to the sixth former why they can't snog for a third time.

Interesting comments above about the subjects which teach research skills at A level. Fascinating that, with the honourable exception of history, those mentioned are all subjects considered "soft." They're not.

Re the lost life chances, it's mostly garbage, isn't it? Yes, they'll get their grades with "less" knowledge but in terms of getting you into next stage to get you into graduate training schemes, who cares? Or for more vocational routes, who cares?

I agree that it's individuals who will suffer, not the whole cohort /generation. Those children who don't engage at all and are at a crucial/precarious stage (I would argue year 2/3and year 8/9 are those) are at most risk of not reaching the end point they might have done without the pandemic.