As the COVID pandemic resurges I am growing more convinced K12 education will look a lot different in the fall. I encountered this post offering some new proposals for models that cut classroom attendance in half in order to allow distancing. For whatever reason, my imagination had become stuck on a model in which half of the students came to the physical school on one day and the other half came on the next. I had imagined that Wednesdays would be devoted to teacher time for planning and going through student written assignments, projects, maybe a few personal contacts. The major downside I saw with this model was the double duty teachers would have to serve when half of the students were face to face and half were joining for at least part of the time online.
One of the ideas in the content I reviewed described a different approach in which half of the students attending in the morning and half in the afternoon one day and then all students were working remotely on the next. Again, Wednesday might be a time for planning and the other teacher tasks I mentioned above. The advantage in this divided day model would be the elimination of the double duty load each day. My perspective which I admit probably imagines working with older students would focus on more intense instruction for a shorter amount of time which I tend to see as more tolerable than what would seem feasible when engaged with students for an entire day.
