(They make up for it in planning of course!) Under these extraordinary circumstances, we may need to set the bar even lower. These guidelines from Wisconsin are a good place to start, but they mean teachers may spend even less time teaching than students do on schoolwork. Meanwhile, educators are trying to find the right balance between synchronous-or “real time” lectures and discussions-and asynchronous work like projects and activities. Other experts agree with these general guidelines. It features recommendations from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards which say that elementary students should have 1-2 hours a day of online instruction, middle school students 2-3 hours, and high school students 3-4 hours. People have shared the image below widely on social media. Experts say kids should spend less time on work. But experts say the hours don’t really translate to the home environment. Kids receive a lot of direct instructional time in the classroom that they aren’t getting now. That isn’t to say that a traditional schedule is packed with fluff. All of that time adds to a normal school day and isn’t built into a virtual one. They aren’t walking through the hallways or stopping at their lockers. They no longer have the rhythms of lunch, recess, and special events. It probably doesn’t need to be said, but the structure of a normal school day is wildly different now that kids are learning at home. The pace of distance learning is different. In all seriousness, we can’t expect kids to work online or offline for eight hours a day during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re just going to keep repeating this until it sinks in for everyone, okay? A virtual learning schedule is not the same as a traditional school schedule.
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