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Seguin Daily News helps parents better understand a day of remote learning in the Seguin ISD By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- The Seguin ISD today is sharing some of the ABC’s and 123’s on what a day of remote learning will look like for students this fall. With remote learning one of the options for students in all grades, Seguin ISD officials are providing the answers to a
few questions that some of our Seguin Daily News and KWED listeners still have. Now although some of these answers have already been made available online by the Seguin ISD in what the district is calling its Back to School Blueprint document, Seguin Radio KWED and the SDN wanted to highlight a few of those questions with their answers. Helping to provide
parents and guardians with all they need to know about making the right decision for their student and family is Sean Hoffmann, Seguin ISD chief communications officer. Leading the list of questions, of course, is one that involves the mechanics of remote learning or learning from home.
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ill students be watching teachers live or will they get to tackle assignments on their own time -- more like they did this past spring when the district was forced to cancel school and students were to complete their work on a daily basis? According to Hoffmann, the district has structured its remote learning to include two principles or options, options he says will hopefully work with the different families of the Seguin ISD. “We have developed schedules for students to engage in remote learning from home throughout the school day and these are basically based on two different principles. One would be synchronous learning in which a student is logged in and engaging with a teacher, an instructor – live for lessons and then the opposite of that, I guess, would be asynchronous learning in which the teacher provides instructional material, provides a lesson for a student to do on his or her own time or (to) do during that day – kind of less structured if you will as opposed to the synchronous model,” said Hoffmann. ow does my family decide which remote learning principle works best for us? To better decide on a synchronous (live/structured remote learning) or an asynchronous (less structured) option, Hoffmann says parents are asked to check out the sample school schedules posted online via the Seguin ISD’s Back to School Blueprint. The sample schedules for all grades can be found on Blueprint pages 8 and 9. The samples schedules are also made available in Wednesday’s edition of the Seguin Daily News on page 15. “We put together a sample schedule, kind of broken down
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for the elementary and then the secondary level students, those schedules are online on our website. In fact, we put together a Back to School Blueprint. It’s a big document. We are not going to hide that fact. It’s about 50 pages but we are encouraging our parents to view this resource and read it and learn to see what options are available and how things are going to look when we start school on Sept. 8,” said Hoffmann. Some daily examples of synchronous activities may include reading aloud, community talks, and or direct instruction, mini-lessons by the teacher. Daily asynchronous assignments – those to be completed independently -- may include things such as student self-selected reading and writing, independent practice and writing assignments. oes my child still have an opportunity to get in some physical activity or other coursework? In addition to reading, writing, math and other basics, parents also want to know whether physical education or other core subjects will be available through remote learning? Hoffmann says yes, various opportunities will still be available for both elementary and secondary level students. “A lot of the schedule will depend on the teacher as well as the student’s grade but again, we have those schedules posted online and again, parents are invited to look at these sample schedules and see what an elementary schedule looks like. For example, we do have a window in there for physical education during the day for our elementary school students and that can be an example where you’ve got a teacher leading that P.E class with the students who are at home. Obviously at the secondary level, we are going to have a schedule that has a focus on our core subjects in which students will be working either directly with a teacher. At your secondary level, you are going to have a little bit more (ability) and a little more time in which students can be working on their own on projects,” said Hoffmann.
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See REMOTE LEARNING, page 3