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A note on what happened in the #DOE today.
last night my teaching assignment was changed. this morning my teaching assignment was changed again. at any time in the near future my teaching assignment can change again. I am expected to accept, smile, and adjust my plans. (thread)
last night my teaching assignment was changed. this morning my teaching assignment was changed again. at any time in the near future my teaching assignment can change again. I am expected to accept, smile, and adjust my plans. (thread)
this is the type of incompetence and chaotic work situation #NYCDOE teachers have learned to get used to. most of us are just now getting to know what our work will look like for the next... I can’t say year... few weeks? few days?
what I mean is we just heard the news—
what I mean is we just heard the news—
that despite what we were told — which is that every class would have a remote, a blended, and an in-person teacher, due to an (embarrassingly obvious) staffing shortage that everyone could see by the mayor, there is no one to do cover the classes the way it’s needed.
so here’s where the framing becomes really essential. we were told Blended instruction won’t need to be synchronous, which, in layperson’s language, means the kids learning part-time at home won’t have the support of a teacher, & they are “Not requiring” teachers to engage w/Ss.
imagine all the children working at home on assignments for 2 full days of the week without a teacher available to answer questions, check on them, help or give feedback...
ask yourself how many teachers will be ok with that, knowing those same Ss will be back in their rooms..
ask yourself how many teachers will be ok with that, knowing those same Ss will be back in their rooms..
in 5 days, and how many teachers will, because they CARE, will end up teaching the in-person group as well as assisting Ss at home. teachers are not required, no, but many will take on this extra responsibility and teach in person and blended.
As for the teachers who refuse, what about those students? What are the implications for the parents who now have unsupervised learners on their hands? At least the fully remote kids will have a full-time teacher. But the blended kids might get a teacher for 2 days of the week.
And for how long? We might be fully remote after 2 weeks. It’s unconscionable that @UFT @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor could plan something that had absolutely no way of being implemented and then give up like this, putting all the burden on the most vulnerable, & all at the last min.
It’s a shame that leadership, with all their advisors, all the months of planning, all of the resources and advantages that principals don’t, could not come up with a plan that serves the children dependent on their for their education. An utter moral & administrative failure.
