Teachers adjusting to distance learning

Teachers adjusting to distance learning

SCHOOL...SCHOOL IS COMING TO THEM...THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING.IT ALSO MEANS BIG CHANGESFOR TEACHERS... THEY'REHURRYING TO ADAPT LESSONPLANS FOR THE REST OF THEYEAR.

2 WORKS FOR YOU'SCHRIS DIMARIA... SHOWS USWHAT SOME OF THOSE PLANSCOULD LOOK LIKE IN TULSAPUBLIC SCHOOLS... AND HOWTEACHERS WILL KEEP IN TOUCHWITH THEIR STUDENTS.SHAWNA MOTT-WRIGHT / TCTAVICE PRESIDENT: "THEDIFFERENCE IS THEFACE-TO-FACE AND THEHANDS-ON LEARNING, BUT WE'RESTILL GOING TO TRY TO BE ASHANDS-ON AS WE CAN THROUGHPHONE OR INTERNET, WHATEVERMEANS WE HAVE." DISTANCELEARNING..

DOESN'TNECESSARILY MEAN GOINGONLINE.

TEACHERS WILLUTILIZE THE INTERNET AS MUCHAS THEY CAN..

TO KEEP INCONTACT WITH THEIR STUDENTS.SHAWNA MOTT-WRIGHT / TCTAVICE PRESIDENT: "ZOOM OFCOURSE, FACETIME, PHONECALLS, JUST CHECK-INS TOMAKE SURE THEY'RE DOINGALRIGHT." WHEN TULSA PUBLICSCHOOLS SWITCHES TO DISTANCELEARNING ON MONDAY, THEY'RENOT GOING TO DUPLICATE AREGULAR SCHOOL DAY.

ATLEAST AT FIRST... INSTEAD,TEACHERS ARE WORKING TOSTRUCTURE THEIR LEARNINGPLANS TO BRING THECLASSROOM..

TO THEIRSTUDENTS' LIVING ROOMS.DR. DEBORAH GIST / TULSAPUBLIC SCHOOLSSUPERINTENDENT: "THE WORK ISGOING TO HAVE TO BE, FORTHAT FIRST WEEK, REACHINGOUT TO FAMILIES FOR OURTEACHERS TO BUILD STRUCTURESAND GET THINGS IN PLACE."SHAWNA MOTT-WRIGHT / TCTAVICE PRESIDENT: "THEFACE-TO-FACE AND THE BEINGTHERE IS DIFFERENT.

AND THEBIGGEST THING FOR US ASTEACHERS IS NOT GETTING TOSEE OUR KIDS." TEACHERS WILLBE ABLE TO RECORD LECTURESAND POST THEM ONLINE, HAVEGROUP VIDEO CALLS ON ZOOM,OR TALK ONE-ON-ONE WITHSTUDENTS TO ASSIGN ANDEVALUATE WORK.LEARNING PACKETS WILL BEHANDED OUT AT THEGRAB-AND-GO MEAL SITESACROSS TULSA.

LESSON PLANSAND STRUCTURES..

WILL VARYAS MUCH AS THE SUBJECTSTHEMSELVES.SHAWNA MOTT-WRIGHT / TCTAVICE PRESIDENT: "FOR ME, IWOULD START WITH WHAT LESSONI WANT TO TEACH, AND THENSTART GOING THROUGH MY KIDS,THINKING WHAT DIFFERENT KIDSNEED, OR EXAMPLES RELATINGTO WHAT THEY CARE ABOUT ORUNDERSTAND." STARTINGMONDAY, TEACHERS CANDETERMINE HOW THEY SHOULDBREAK UP THEIR TIME TO TEACHSTUDENTS - SETTING ASIDEWORK TIME TO ACCOMPLISH ATASK, OR EVEN GIVING OUT ANASSIGNMENT TO WORK ON OVER ACOUPLE DAYS.

T-P-S IS STILLHANDING OUT CHROMEBOOKS TOSTUDENTS WHO NEED THEM, ANDIS NOW FINDING WAYS TO GETTHEM HOOKED UP TO THEINTERNET.

CHRIS DIMARIA, 2WORKS FOR YOU.A LOCAL ORTHODONTIST CLINICIS DOING THEIR PART TO HELPTHOSE ON THE FRONT LINES.Emerson Orthodontics SAYSTHEY WORKED