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What's going on and pause with commissions.
5 years ago
Good Morning everyone. I thought I should give you a little update on what's going on. First I am going to have to put a pause on the commissions. I've finished doing the one for the person that has paid, but for the others since no one else has just yet I am holding your spot and pausing. Here is why.
For those of you who don't know I am a teacher in the deep south. As a matter of fact my state of MS is about to be ranked NUMBER 1 in covid cases ...YAY we're number 1....luckily my school will not be going back until Sept 8th. We will be doing both face to face and online learning. Our school bought a program that allows students to do the class online and teachers just had to kinda check in with the curriculum and such. Well pretty much every subject is on this state curriculum, except mine. Which I figured it would be like this since its theatre. For past three weeks I've been contacting the lady over all this as well as the rep over this program, and it came down to this: we don't have one for you. You will just have to customize and make your own.
So what this means.... I have roughly one month to create a years worth of an online curriculum before school starts. Figure out how to do performance online, design online, and technical theatre online. Now I have participated in webinars and got resources for this. Now I just have to weave it all together...
The real kicker is the way this program works the student who is taking classes online will have to be on during class time. So not only am I teaching students face to face, but I'm teaching students online at the same freaking time....
Oh and one more thing...our governor vetoed the budget and hasn't met back with the legislator to get it back...so we currently have no money for the schools for the state right now...yet the private school money just so happen to still be there...
So yeah. I'm sorry and once I get this curriculum done I will be back to commissions
For those of you who don't know I am a teacher in the deep south. As a matter of fact my state of MS is about to be ranked NUMBER 1 in covid cases ...YAY we're number 1....luckily my school will not be going back until Sept 8th. We will be doing both face to face and online learning. Our school bought a program that allows students to do the class online and teachers just had to kinda check in with the curriculum and such. Well pretty much every subject is on this state curriculum, except mine. Which I figured it would be like this since its theatre. For past three weeks I've been contacting the lady over all this as well as the rep over this program, and it came down to this: we don't have one for you. You will just have to customize and make your own.
So what this means.... I have roughly one month to create a years worth of an online curriculum before school starts. Figure out how to do performance online, design online, and technical theatre online. Now I have participated in webinars and got resources for this. Now I just have to weave it all together...
The real kicker is the way this program works the student who is taking classes online will have to be on during class time. So not only am I teaching students face to face, but I'm teaching students online at the same freaking time....
Oh and one more thing...our governor vetoed the budget and hasn't met back with the legislator to get it back...so we currently have no money for the schools for the state right now...yet the private school money just so happen to still be there...
So yeah. I'm sorry and once I get this curriculum done I will be back to commissions
First and foremost, figure out the format. How will the live/online component work? What does that look like for the in-person and at-home student? (This will make parents happy to know how things will work.) Have a plan for at-home who have technical troubles, like having a recording they can review of the class, which is better than nothing. Make at-home kids participate in the live connection. If they don't, they need to submit notes, so you know they're engaged. Keeping kids, at both ends, engaged will be part of the key to your success. Having in-class students rotate through helping with the technical side, such as getting at-home kids who are talking to the class up on the main screen where they can be seen as the focus, then moved back to a screen filled with all the students participating at-home.