TeachLab Presents The Homework Machine Emergency Remote Learning in Middle Schools
This week on TeachLab, Justin Reich joins Blake Middle School of Medfield, MA for their Monday morning check-in to discuss the many challenges of distance learning, and the specific challenges of middle schools, who have uniquely diverse age-groups to address. Principal Nat Vaughn guides the discussion and provides questions for Justin to shed light on with his experience and research.
“when I was a brand new teacher, my department head used to say.... every time you assign an essay, you're assigning 75 different essays. The experience that your students have writing this is just going to be so different for each student. And that was in normal non-crisis pandemic times, I feel like that advice is magnified a thousand times now.”
- Teaching Systems Lab’s COVID-19 State Guidance Report
- Recognizing a diversity in individual experiences
- How virtual schools function
- The challenges of the middle school age group
- The need to remain flexible and understanding of each other
- Remaining critical and parting from state guidance
- Celebrating the learning that does happen
- Reach out to those most vulnerable or struggling
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Resources and Links
Learn more about author Tressie McMillan Cottom
Transcript
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