HYBRID LEARNING - The middle ground
What is hybrid learning?
- a mix of in-person and online instruction
Better transition for students to go full remote if necessary
Since during hybrid learning is both in-person instruction and remote instruction, it makes the switch to fully remote learning (if necessary) a lot easier.
- “We’re fortunate that we can put six feet of distance between our students in our classrooms which is something a lot of places can’t do,” says David Pritt, Director of Curriculum and Instruction. “We felt [hybrid learning] gave us the best of both worlds so if we do get to a point where things get worse later on and we do have to shutdown the students are already in that mode of online learning as well.”
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Limits Exposure
When the classroom is at half-capacity, it lowers the possibility of being exposed to the virus, and causes little to no outbreaks.
- Out of 16,348 staff members and students tested randomly by the school system in the first week of its testing regimen, the city has gotten back results for 16,298. There were only 28 positives: 20 staff members and eight students.
- When officials put mobile testing units at schools near Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods that have had new outbreaks, only four positive cases turned up — out of more than 3,300 tests conducted since the last week of September.
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CONS
The Switch
Teaching Students Remote and in School
Unfortunately, changing between in-person and remote learning can be hard for a student to adapt to everyday.
- From switches between remote and in-person learning to juggling class quarantines due to school-related cases, Canadian students continue to grapple with a tumultuous education experience amid COVID-19.
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Unfortunately, teachers face a hard task of how to teach both students in the building and at home at the same time.
- “I say, ‘OK, I’m going to look at my online kids and have them answer this question,’” Boneski, a teacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut said. “They’re just like: ‘But I’m right here, I know the answer!’”
- To stay visible to her online students, she doing a lot of teaching near her interactive whiteboard, a method she rarely used in the past. That creates a lot of physical distance between Boneski and some of her students.