Well, here we are - the first snow day of the school year. I was beginning to worry. We only have about 3-5 weeks left for this little white stuff. I am glad we're off today. Now I am already getting greedy for tomorrow. If we are going to be off tomorrow, I hope they cancel today. It would be nice to stay up past 8:30pm! :)
As I was shoveling the driveway today, I began to think . . . . Is there a chance that someday on a snow day I am still going to be required to teach my students? Sure, they have assignments they could be doing from home today. But besides www.studyisland.com I don't really "know" what they are doing.
In a few years, who knows? Maybe I could be teaching my fourth graders from home on a snowday. Or maybe even on a sunny day... hmmm... what do you think?
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I think that your idea of teaching from home on a snow day is a scary one! But I think that it may become a reality. As you stated you can already have your students do work online from home and I guess teaching from home would be the next logical step. The Virtual High School that we talk about in class is the same concept. I think it will take a while for that to catch on more widespread and then even longer to filter down to the elementary level, but I can see it coming someday.
ReplyDeleteIt is now snow day number two, but whose counting?
ReplyDeleteI would be willing to bet many of our students were outside having a ball in all this white stuff yesterday! I'm feeling a little guilty that my daughter and I only looked at it from the window.
I too can see teaching from home coming someday, but at the current rate we might be retired by then. I guess we (ITSers) are supposed to be the leaders to increase the timeline of change.
We actually have a former ITSer who is (or was) teaching in a virtual academy for primary learners. Priscilla and I were just talking today about whether or not she is still teaching in that academy. I'm waiting for her to respond to my comment in facebook so maybe I'll have more info about how this has worked for her as a teacher. We were speculating that teachers might get burned out faster doing this job.
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